Clyburn: I Don't See A Lot Of Diversity On El-Sayed's Side Of The Fence!

The endorsements are not working. Jim Clyburn's endorsement of Haley Stevens shows how out of touch the Democrats are.

Folks, Americans are not monolithic voters. When the paychecks are not matching the American economy, all lawmakers are targets of frustration. 

We don't care about the politics. We care about the policies.

It is not about Black and white. It is about survival. Under two presidents, we have seen the U.S. economy take a nosedive. Their support of the apartheid genocidal ethnostate has not made the country great. With billions going to fund Israel and we can't fix the damn potholes on our roads, Americans had enough. 

We have major flooding in Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Houston, yet the current president claims that the war is beneficial to the American people.

The Democratic Party claims they have the momentum going in. After the Graham Platner incident, I believe the blunted all their chances to retake the Senate. 

Now  an establishment candidate in a crucial race is throwing everything but the issues at the rival. The candidate openly supports that country and recently voted to give billions to fund its military.

This shit is coming to end.

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in a last ditch attempt to stop the momentum of rising progressive rival, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in this bitter Democratic primary.

Clyburn, 86 put his full support on Stevens, 43. 

El-Sayed, 41 dismissed the endorsement and stated clearly that no matter how many endorsements, the voters will decide on whether he or Stevens is capable of taking on former lawmaker Mike Rogers.

It's almost over.

Stevens has used tactics almost as bad as a Republican. She used articles from the Washington Examiner or Washington Free Beacon to go after El-Sayed's finances.

Sen. John Fetterman (I-PA) appeared on Fox to directly call El-Sayed "pro-Hamas" and compared him to former Maine candidate Graham Platner.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have stepped up on fundraising for Stevens after a series of missteps.

The reasons for all of this is because the vote cannot be split. Since Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrow dropped out, the Democratic establishment is trying to put the thumb on the scale (sort of speak).

Clyburn on his part is trying to use troupes and racial identity politics to undermine the grassroots efforts El-Sayed put forth in his campaign.

"I saw a picture that concerned me [from] the rally. I didn’t see a single person that looks like me. That tells me all I need to know."

Clyburn is a stuanch supporter of Israel. His biggest problems is that he won't retire. 

He is grooming his daughter to run for him if he does retire. He has actively squashed any attempt at getting grassroots movements the candidate they want.

While I did back Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH) over Nina Turner, Brown's support of Israel has now made me question whether she is focused on Ohio issues like Cleveland, one of the poorest cities in the damn state. Before 2023, I was opposed to Israel but at the time, supportive of Democrats who stood with then president Joe Biden. Before Biden took his focus off the economy to help Ukraine and Israel, all was good. However, the former president and his damn Catholic faith led us to Israel getting a blank check to do whatever the fuck it wants. When progressive told the president that his support for Israel will doom him (and eventually former vice president Kamala Harris), folks like Clyburn dismissed it as radical noise. 

America, we have to change course.

Well it made Michigan swing back to Donald J. Trump. The economic issues didn't get better under Biden. They are not certainly better under Trump.

Slotkin barely won against Rogers. She won with less than 1% of the vote. Many voters already disapproved of her job as a senator. She criticized Hasan Piker for being extreme while appearing at town hall. The next day she goes on Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher, a known bigot who is Islamophobic and said racial slurs about Black people. He identifies as a libertarian but leaning more conservative since the Israel thing.

El-Sayed wants to discuss economics, the massive influx of money into this primary forces Israel back into the spotlight. Pro-Israel groups like the AIPAC-aligned United Democracy Project have poured nearly $30 million into boosting his opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, turning campaign finance itself into a proxy war over Israel.

Detractors quickly accused Clyburn and the party establishment of weaponizing identity politics against a fellow Democrat in a highly diverse city like Detroit.