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DAVID MARCUS: Socialism and El-Sayed run into harsh reality in blue-collar Michigan

AOC and Bernie Sanders rallied for El-Sayed in Detroit, but the Congressional Black Caucus has since endorsed Stevens

By David Marcus Fox News

Published July 19, 2026 1:07pm EDT

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Socialist-backed Senate candidate is too far left for Michigan, resident says

A Michigan plumber says far-left Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed needs to not be so "way left" in order to win Michigan voters.

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By now, we have all seen the evidence that the socialist uprising happening in the Democratic Party is fueled mainly by highly educated White voters, and on Saturday, I saw even more evidence of it at a Detroit rally for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. It was whiter than a toothpaste ad.

Scanning the hundred or so people in line for the event that featured Marxist superstars Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., I saw fewer Black people than you could find at Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s restricted beach club in Rhode Island.

Outside of the Opera House where the event was taking place, I met Chris, selling socialist merch. Like me, he had arrived that morning, redheaded, ruddy and a bit sunburned from his recent swing through Texas supporting the supposedly non-socialist Senate candidate James Talarico.

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