Democrats’ hopes of winning back the Senate rest on Abdul El-Sayed.
The latest bombshell in his Senate race scrambled all plans.
And Abdul El-Sayed got rocked by one awful poll that left Chuck Schumer in tears.
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Fox News polls show Democrats leading in Ohio, Iowa, Maine, and Texas, all states with GOP Senators, meaning Democrats would be on track to win control of the Senate.
But then came their poll out of Michigan, where El-Sayed is running against Republican Mike Rogers to see who will succeed retiring Democrat Gary Peters.
And Fox News’s poll showed Rogers leading El-Sayed 51-47%.
If that lead holds, Republicans will pick up a Senate seat in Michigan and potentially block Democrats from winning the majority.
In the poll. Rogers led El-Sayed with independents by five points, a result that CNN data analyst Harry Enten said was unique to Michigan compared to other races.
“This is extremely unusual because across the political map, as I was looking at these different Fox News polls, I couldn’t find another example where the Republican was actually leading among independents,” Enten stated.
Enten noted Fox showed Democrats leading in the Michigan Gubernatorial Election, showing El-Sayed’s problems were unique to him as opposed to an overall Democrat brand issue.
“And it turns out that candidate quality may in fact matter, at least in terms of how voters see it, because in this same poll, the Democratic candidate for governor was ahead. So this is unique to the Senate race, and it is quite a troubling result for Democrats and quite a heartening one for Republicans,” Enten added.
Enten then stressed that El-Sayed is among Michigan voters compared to Democrats running in other states.
“This is extremely unusual. Again, across the map. Democrats have done such a good job recruiting candidates who are well-liked by the voters,” Enten continued. “Again, I looked at all the Fox News polls. All the Democrats were above water except for Abdul El-Sayed. And he is 13 points underwater. This is all about Abdul El-Sayed being a weak candidate, at least in the minds of the voters.”
Enten went on to say that El-Sayed set a record for the biggest summertime polling deficit of a Democrat running for Senate in Michigan since 1994, which was coincidentally the last time Republicans won a Senate race in Michigan.
“This is extremely, extremely, extremely unusual,” Enten concluded. “Abdul El-Sayed is breaking records in the ways that you don’t want to. In fact, he is the first Democrat down by this much, as I said, essentially since 1994.”
El-Sayed was among the socialists Democrats are running in key races across America as the Democratic Socialists of America assert control over the party.
But what works in blue districts may fall flat in battlegrounds.
El-Sayed is struggling under the weight of his past support for defunding the police, banning Fourth of July fireworks, attacking football as racist and the epitome of “toxic masculinity,” and campaigning with streamer Hasan Piker, who said America “deserved 9/11.”
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