The candidate has crafted a progressive nationalism and shown his party how to turn Republicans\u2019 financial advantage against them<\/p>\n
Every now and then, a Senate race sets the direction for an entire party. In 1991, a state official named Harris Wofford \u2013 advised by a foul-mouthed Cajun named James Carville \u2013 upset his far better-known Republican opponent to win a special election in Pennsylvania. He did it by promising to expand access to healthcare \u2013 and thus created a template for Bill Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign the following year.<\/p>\n
If Abdul El-Sayed can follow up his victory in last night\u2019s Democratic senate primary by winning the general election in Michigan this fall, he will have created a template of his own. Despite his closer-than-expected margin of victory, his campaign offers a model for how Democrats across the country can answer the political challenge posed by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
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