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Michigan's el Sayed tells supporters to stop making fun of Stevens
“Focus on the issues: Congresswoman Stevens has welcomed corporations and special interests to support her,” he continued. “She votes to send our money abroad while Michiganders struggle. She’s bought by DTE, Blue Cross, Big Tech, and Big Pharma who pick our pockets. AIPAC, Trump-aligned billionaires, and corporate PACs are spending $50,000,000+ to support her. “
El Sayed has been polling well against Stevens in the race to win the Democratic primary and succeed retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI). The winner of the August election is on track to face former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) in November.
El Sayed holds a range of left-wing or socialist positions, including backing abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, instituting Medicare-for-all, and raising taxes on wealthier individuals, such as raising the top marginal tax rate on earnings over $1 million, taxing capital gains and inheritances over $1 million as ordinary income, implementing a “billionaire tax” on wealth over $1 billion, and putting a progressive tax on wealth held by trusts.
The candidate has supported aspects of the defund the police and prison abolitionist movements in the past, though he has walked such positions back on the campaign trail.
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On foreign policy, el Sayed has condemned the war in Iran and declined to endorse the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad” about his death, according to audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.