Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed spent most of his primary debate against Rep. Haley Stevens railing against Israel. He blamed the Jewish state for problems ranging from U.S. artificial intelligence policy to the national debt to the state of the Democratic Party under Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer. Asked whether “we need to regulate
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D.) joined the Holocaust-denying Shiite cleric Fadhel Al-Sahlani on stage last month to celebrate the grand opening of the Islamic Institute of America’s new mosque. During the event, El-Sayed also offered “hearty congratulations” to the mosque’s imam, Hassan al-Qazwini, an Iraqi-born cleric who has used his perch to praise Hezbollah
Melat Kiros’s win follows victories from three Zohran Mamdani-backed challengers in New York Melat Kiros (@MelatKirosCO/X), Diana DeGette (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Far-left House challenger Melat Kiros, a socialist who called both the Oct. 7 and Sept. 11 terror attacks “inevitable,” unseated Rep. Diana DeGette, who has represented Denver for nearly 30 years. The result comes
The Hyatt Hotels heir and Illinois governor once removed five toilets from his mansion to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes L: James Talarico (Alberto Silva Fernandez/Getty Images), R: J.B. Pritzker (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Left-wing Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, who says “billionaires” are “destroying this country,” held a big-ticket Chicago fundraiser with
Chevalier and Espaillat are trading nasty barbs in a race that could prove a crucial test of Mamdani’s influence L: Darializa Avila Chevalier (Justice Democrats/YouTube), R: Adriano Espaillat (Heather Diehl/Getty Images) New York City’s ethnic fault lines are on full display in the closing days of highly contested Democratic primaries across the Big Apple, with
JoAnna Mendoza owns stake in a political consulting firm worth up to $5 million JoAnna Mendoza (LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) JoAnna Mendoza, an Arizona Democrat in one of the country’s tightest House races, portrays herself as a single mom who grew up in rural poverty, picking cotton and relying on food stamps, but her reality is
A Democratic Socialist backed by Zohran Mamdani, Darializa Avila Chevalier, who is looking to stage an upset primary victory in New York’s 13th Congressional District, openly championed a notorious female terrorist convicted of plotting an Israeli supermarket bombing that killed two people, public records show. “Help Rasmea come home! 💗💗💗,” Chevalier posted to Facebook in