{"id":77032,"date":"2026-08-05T16:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/top-democrats-set-aside-qualms-and-embrace-progressive-abdul-el-sayed\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:56:17","slug":"top-democrats-set-aside-qualms-and-embrace-progressive-abdul-el-sayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/top-democrats-set-aside-qualms-and-embrace-progressive-abdul-el-sayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Democrats set aside qualms and embrace progressive Abdul El-Sayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats \u2018united by a common purpose: putting a check on Trump\u2019, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand say<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/05\/michigan-senate-primary-results-abdul-el-sayed\">Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/05\/midterm-primary-elections-what-we-learned\">What we learned from midterm primary elections<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leading Democrats quickly papered over whatever qualms they had about progressive candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/05\/michigan-senate-primary-results-abdul-el-sayed\">Abdul El-Sayed<\/a> after his win in the Michigan Senate primary was confirmed on Wednesday, instead welcoming the former public health official as their champion against the Republican nominee, Mike Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>The state is now key to Democrats\u2019s hopes of retaking control of the chamber in November\u2019s midterm elections. Winning in Michigan would put them on the path to snarling Donald Trump\u2019s legislative agenda and blocking his judicial nominees for the final two years of his presidency, while defeat could undermine their prospects of gaining a majority in the chamber for years to come. Rogers lost a Senate race in Michigan two years ago by a slim margin to Democrat Elissa Slotkin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/05\/top-democrats-embrace-abdul-el-sayed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats \u2018united by a common purpose: putting a check on Trump\u2019, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand say Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary What we learned from midterm primary elections Leading Democrats quickly papered over whatever qualms they had about progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed after his win in the Michigan Senate primary was confirmed on &#8230; <a title=\"Top Democrats set aside qualms and embrace progressive Abdul El-Sayed\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/top-democrats-set-aside-qualms-and-embrace-progressive-abdul-el-sayed\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Top Democrats set aside qualms and embrace progressive Abdul El-Sayed\">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-77032","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\/77032","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=77032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}