LIZ PEEK: Michigan can stop the socialist fever rage or watch it swallow the Senate
On Tuesday, Michigan voters have a final shot at shutting down the socialist surge that is convulsing the Democratic Party and alarming the country.Polls and prediction markets suggest they will not do so.Tuesday is the final day for voters in the Democratic primary to choose a U.S.
Senate candidate for November.The primary winner will face former Republican Rep.
Mike Rogers for the seat currently held by Sen.Gary Peters, who is retiring.
Although Mallory McMorrow remains on the ballot after suspending her campaign, the contest has effectively narrowed to establishment-backed Rep.Haley Stevens and progressive Abdul El-Sayed.
Stevens has represented Michigan’s 11th Congressional District since 2019.It is, to paraphrase Arkansas Gov.Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a choice between normal and crazy.
El-Sayed, who wants to abolish ICE, eliminate oil and gas, ban school choice, deny arms shipments to U.S.ally Israel, sharply raise taxes, provide tuition-free four-year college degrees and establish a wealth tax, will likely win the primary.
Stevens, in contrast, is a normal liberal Democrat.DEM PRIMARY ERUPTS AS ESTABLISHMENT FAVORITE DISMISSES RIVAL AS ‘CELEBRITY CANDIDATE’Why should you care? Because the critical Michigan contest could well determine whether Democrats take over the Senate in November and effectively shut down the Trump agenda. If you agree that there is much more work to do to strengthen our immigration laws, make American energy permanently accessible, level the trade playing field for U.S.companies, purge our welfare programs of fraud, appoint more conservative judges, promote new industries and improve our health care system, you will not want to see the virtual end of the Trump presidency.That is what is at stake.The Michigan race will also indicate whether the progressive left — the ideological home of the Democratic Socialists of America — has the support of mainstream voters in a Midwestern purple state or instead represents a fringe el...