Voters in five states—Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington—go to the polls in primaries on Tuesday, but one race in particular is seen as the marquee event. That would be in Michigan, where Democrats will pick a nominee for Senate in a race that poses an ideological test for the party, reports NPR. Voters will choose between Rep. Haley Stevens, a centrist from a suburban swing district, and Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive former public health official running on a populist agenda that includes Medicare for All. The winner will face Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman who is unopposed in his primary and has President Trump's backing, in what's expected to be a tightly contested November race that could decide which party controls the chamber.
The primary has become a showcase of Democratic fault lines: establishment vs. left, big-money backing vs. grass-roots energy, and especially Israel policy, explains the Washington Post. The super PAC of the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has poured more than $30 million into boosting Stevens, who supports continued US military aid to Israel and rejects labeling the Gaza war a genocide. El-Sayed uses that word and wants aid cut off.
Stevens has the backing of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other establishment Democrats, while El-Sayed is supported by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. However it shakes out, the November contest is a "must-win" for Democrats, per the AP, because it's a race to fill the seat of a retiring Democrat, Gary Peters.
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