{"id":77016,"date":"2026-08-05T10:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/abdul-el-sayeds-win-proves-change-is-possible-for-democrats-his-next-fight-may-determine-their-future\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:55:12","slug":"abdul-el-sayeds-win-proves-change-is-possible-for-democrats-his-next-fight-may-determine-their-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/abdul-el-sayeds-win-proves-change-is-possible-for-democrats-his-next-fight-may-determine-their-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s win proves change is possible for Democrats. His next fight may determine their future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the progressive wins Michigan\u2019s general election, it could redefine the 2028 presidential contest. If he fails, the establishment will call him a cautionary tale<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/05\/michigan-primary-race-democrats-midterms-senate-el-sayed-haley-stevens-donald-trump-republicans-us-politics-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the final stretch of the state\u2019s Democratic primary for US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed challenged voters at a small event in rural Michigan to think about the message they could send the rest of the country when they cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are we? Who do we want to be?\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cDo we want a state that\u2019s defined by how much money corporations brought in to tell us what we couldn\u2019t have? Or do we want to be a state where we demonstrate to the rest of the country what\u2019s possible when you build a movement of, by, and for the people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/05\/abdul-el-sayed-michigan-democrats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the progressive wins Michigan\u2019s general election, it could redefine the 2028 presidential contest. If he fails, the establishment will call him a cautionary tale US politics live \u2013 latest updates In the final stretch of the state\u2019s Democratic primary for US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed challenged voters at a small event in rural Michigan to &#8230; <a title=\"Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s win proves change is possible for Democrats. His next fight may determine their future\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/abdul-el-sayeds-win-proves-change-is-possible-for-democrats-his-next-fight-may-determine-their-future\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s win proves change is possible for Democrats. His next fight may determine their future\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}