"But did Haley Stevens expect that, by switching her support from a Democrat to a Republican, she would receive the media's Liz Cheney Country Over Party award?"

"It sounds like you're upset with me, too, Anderson." Indeed, it did. But did Haley Stevens expect that, by switching her support from a Democrat to a Republican, she would receive the media's Liz Cheney Country Over Party award? If so, she was badly mistaken.

— Byron York (@ByronYork) November 2, 2026

"The Democratic representative who lost a primary fight against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, endorsed his Republican opponent on Sunday...."

"The Republican nominee, Mike Rogers, received the endorsement from Representative Haley Stevens, a Democrat who represents suburban areas around Detroit, after she appeared alongside him at a church service.... 'I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today,' Ms. Stevens said in a video she posted on social media, not long after she arrived with Mr. Rogers at Perfecting Church, a Black church in Detroit. 'I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign.'... Dr. El-Sayed was attending a church service in Detroit that was intended to be a unity gathering with Ms. Stevens... in an effort to move past her recent criticisms of him. But that plan fell apart this weekend, with Ms. Stevens and Dr. El-Sayed publicly feuding over U.S. policy on Israel. On Saturday, Dr. El-Sayed urged Ms. Stevens to stay away from the event...."

From "Midterm Elections Live Updates: Democratic Senate Primary Loser Endorses Republican in Michigan/The rift between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate, and Representative Haley Stevens widened to a gulf two days before the midterms. The president was set to campaign in Iowa and Kansas" (NYT).

ADDED: "Congrats, Fetterwoman":

@HaleyforMI Congrats, Fetterwoman, on nuking your political career and being the saddest sore loser in Michigan political history. I hope whatever you’re getting in return for doing this is worth it.

— 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢 (@ChidiNwatu) November 1, 2026

"Starting in the mid-2000s, the Democratic Party adopted a position that retail politics was due for an internet upgrade."

"Turning up for church hall meetings was well and fine. But haven’t you heard that Americans are bowling alone? Better to email. Phone banking turned into text-a-thons, where volunteers sent millions of text messages to cellphones we had not yet learned to ignore.... That... felt like the future in 2008.... By 2020, the Democratic advantage in digital campaigning was long gone.... As algorithms turned neighbors into unrecognizable partisans with crazy conspiracy theories, Silicon Valley abandoned the Democrats for Trump. Through it all, the frantic fund-raising text messages just kept coming.... [In the Michigan primary,] Abdul El-Sayed upset the deep-pocketed, establishment choice, Haley Stevens, by building a relational campaign on an economic populist message. El-Sayed won, in part, by characterizing the $62 million in outside money that backed Stevens’s campaign as a sign of... political corruption...."

Writes Tressie McMillan Cottom, in "Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People" (NYT gift link).

So... money isn't the answer. You need something other than money, and the socialists do have something. How, then, can they be stopped? The linked column puts it like this: "I’d be looking for the candidates who are thinking and running as if they know that bases are made of people, not dollars."

If you really wanted to show that you are about people, you wouldn't say "bases are made of people." You'd say people matter and hide that the reason they matter to you is they're what is required to make a "base."

The socialists are to the Democratic Party what the Tea Party was to the GOP. All they need now is their Trump.

ADDED: Here is the top-rated comment over there:

This op-ed makes several important points. I am a reliable voter, a Black man, a public school teacher, a union member, and a veteran. In other words, I fit several demographics the DNC routinely “targets” with text messages. 

But here is the problem: every election cycle, I am asked the same two questions, Can I donate, and will I vote for the Democratic ticket? I am rarely called or approached face-to-face and asked how I feel, what I want from government, or even how I am doing. Voters are not merely data points in an opinion poll; we are human beings. 

In contrast, my local DSA chapter recently sent me a text—not asking for my vote or money, but inviting me to a local park to watch or join a pickup basketball game. See the difference? One organization contacted me as a target; the other approached me as a member of the community. 

My message to the DNC is simple: get out of the focus groups and elite academic spaces and into the communities. Stop merely studying voters. Start building genuine relationships with them.

He wants the Party to befriend him. 

It's too close to call over at the NYT, but "Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s slugfest of a Democratic Senate primary, NBC News projects."

I'm reading "Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left/The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage."

El-Sayed overcame a nearly $65 million onslaught of outside money and an establishment that had rallied around Stevens. Popular Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorsed Stevens late last month — a move seen as a last-ditch effort to stop a rising El-Sayed.

Here's the NYT version of the news: "Primary Elections Live Updates: Race Too Close to Call in Democratic Primary for Michigan Senate Seat/Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, holds a narrow lead over Representative Haley Stevens, a centrist, in a race that divided Democrats. The party sees the seat as key to its hopes of winning control of the chamber" (gift link).