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In a year where Republicans find themselves worrying about Senate polls more than Democrats do as we near the unofficial kickoff of The Real Campaign Season™ — the Labor Day weekend — there’s one pesky outlier that has Democrats fretting, and with darn good reason: Michigan.

It would have been a safe seat, even though Donald Trump has won Michigan twice and the state has turned definitively purple.

Retiring Sen. Gary Peters, a Democrat, never faced any serious challenges. Two of the three big names in the Democratic primary to replace him — U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, an orthodox Democrat, and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a progressive but one who wouldn’t have made many waves — were uncontroversial and would have sailed to victory in a midterm cycle typically good for Democrats.

A third, former Wayne County health official Abdul El-Sayed, was not. He campaigned with streamer Hasan “America Deserved 9/11” Piker. He’s on record as basically loathing anything Israel-related and has links through donors and/or family members to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and al-Qaeda. And in Michigan — Michigan, of all places! — he was on record stating that football plays into “toxic masculinity.”

So in other words, Democrats are worrying, particularly since black and Jewish voters, rather important blocs for the Michigan Democratic Party, seem to be turned off by the guy and his associations with radical streamers, radical organizations, and the radical idea that the Wolverines and Lions are basically tools of the patriarchy.

Ever since El-Sayed eked out a victory in the primary and the initial polls showed he’s in real trouble, this has been simmering to a boil. And then the pot boiled over in what could best be described as Abdul and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad weekend — in which he was forced to apologize to the state’s Jewish community again due to offensive comments he made about a synagogue attack in the state, pretend that this race had nothing to do with “a social media person in California” who helped him win the nomination, and tried to pretend he was really invested in the University of Michigan-Ohio State University football rivalry with decidedly, um, unconvincing results.

First off was the apology for the attack on the Temple Israel synagogue in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield Township, allegedly by an extremist named Ayman Mohammad Ghazali who had lost four family members in Lebanon.

At the time, El-Sayed expressed sympathy but emphasized that “hurt people hurt people,” according to the U.K. Guardian. Yes, because we all know that “hurt people” act like this:

Ghazali reportedly drove........

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