After Mallory McMorrow dropped out of the Michigan Democrat Senate primary and ahead of the debate between Bernie Sanders-backed Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed and Chuck Schumer-backed Haley Stevens, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) released a new memo highlighting the alarming momentum behind socialist El-Sayed.
As reported by POLITICO:
The NRSC is urging Republicans to get involved in the Michigan Senate race before it’s too late. In a new memo circulated by the NRSC today obtained by Playbook’s Adam Wren, the GOP apparatus is warning that Abdul El-Sayed is the frontrunner in the Democratic primary, despite state Sen. Mallory McMorrow’s withdrawal from the race this weekend — which it dubbed a Chuck Schumer-fueled “attempt to consolidate support for [Rep.] Haley Stevens.” The NRSC memo describes El-Sayed as the “most radical Democrat Senate nominee of the cycle — and one with a credible path to victory.”
Nodding to Graham Platner’s ascension in Maine, the NRSC says Democrats will rally around El-Sayed if he wins the primary, and Republicans need to jump in to support GOP nominee Mike Rogers now: “Rogers can and should win this race, but only with the full engagement of the Republican ecosystem from the outset.” Read the full memo.
A head-to-head poll for a pro-El-Sayed group, conducted before McMorrow dropped out, found the progressive with a 20-point lead over Stevens, per Semafor’s Dave Weigel.
Read the full memo here.
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