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MORNING GLORY: Rogers versus El-Sayed is a referendum on the future of America

Will normal beat radical and Rogers win in Michigan?

By Hugh Hewitt Fox News

Published August 6, 2026 5:00am EDT

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El-Sayed, Stevens face off in Michigan Democratic US Senate primary

‘America's Newsroom’ co-anchor Bill Hemmer reports on the Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate primary on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

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Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Senate Democratic primary Tuesday over Congresswoman Haley Stevens. El-Sayed had a 1% win in a race that featured a third candidate, Mallory McMorrow, who had dropped out but who nevertheless polled around 4% of the total vote.

Mike Rogers is the GOP nominee in the fall against El-Sayed. In 2024, Rogers — a very respected, former seven-term Congressman from Michigan who served as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee — tallied 2,693,680 votes, or 48.30% of the total electorate in the state in a Senate race he lost to Elissa Slotkin. Republicans need only turn out the same electorate as voted in 2024 and Rogers will win the 2026 race.

That sort of turnout is usually, however, a big lift in a non-presidential year, because statewide elections are not as exciting to the average American as presidential contests.

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But Michigan in 2026 may prove to be the exception to the "exciting race" rule because El-Sayed is a radical leftist, an Islamist-supporting extremist whose far-from-the-mainstream positions may energize an off-year electorate the way a presidential campaign charges turnout every four years.........

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