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5%
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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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In August, Representative Haley Stevens lost Michigan’s Democratic senatorial primary to Abdul El-Sayed, who polls show now holds a narrow lead over the Republican candidate, Mike Rogers.
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polls → lose → candidate
Most losing primary candidates either endorse their opponent or wait out the remainder of the election cycle before reentering politics.
But Stevens, in recent weeks, has made her way back into the conversation.
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Stevens → lose → conversation
Or, more accurately, her recent fiancé Jason Turkish has done so.
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fiancé → do → ?
Turkish, who announced his engagement to Stevens less than three months ago, has spent the past several days loudly condemning El-Sayed on every platform available to him, while announcing that he plans to vote for Rogers due to El-Sayed’s criticism of Israel.
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he → announce → Israel
Turkish, a Democratic donor living in Michigan who has also given to GOP candidates, attended a campaign event for Rogers Wednesday night.
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who → live → Rogers
While there, he called El-Sayed antisemitic.
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he → call → Sayed
Then, as Stevens sat for an interview with the New York Times on Friday, Turkish went on TMZ and, on his fiancée’s behalf, said “I don’t think she’s going to be supporting Abdul El-Sayed very much longer.”
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she → sit → Sayed
Stevens, however, has repeatedly insisted she is still supporting El-Sayed.
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she → insist → Sayed
“I ran for a Democratic nomination, intent in understanding that I wanted a Democrat to win,” she told the Times.
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she → run → Times
Stevens has criticized one advertisement that was released in support of her former primary opponent—an ad that was not made or endorsed by El-Sayed or his team.
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that → criticize → Sayed
Stevens called the ad antisemitic because it blamed U.S. support for Israel for high grocery prices.
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it → call → prices
She demanded that El-Sayed publicly disavow it as a precondition for appearing at an event with him on Sunday; it is not clear whether the event will go forward.
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event → demand → Sunday
Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a prominent Democrat who also competed against Stevens and El-Sayed in the primary, said on Friday that she has “no idea what the hell Haley Stevens is doing.”
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Stevens → compete → hell
“This is a moment where we have to recognize the stakes,” she said, urging party unity.
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she → have → unity
That’s it,” she added in a statement Saturday.)
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she → ’ → statement
Turkish, meanwhile, is continuing his media tour.
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Turkish → continue → tour
On Saturday morning, he went on Fox and Friends to assert that El-Sayed’s criticism of Israel “puts Jews at risk.”
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criticism → go → risk
Stevens’ fiancé, a lawyer and fundraiser, was not previously a sought-after political surrogate.
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fiancé → seek → ?
As the New York Times delicately put it, “His endorsement had never made news before now.”
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endorsement → put → news
According to Politico, El-Sayed is currently asking Stevens to keep herself and her fiancé as far away from his campaign as possible.
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Sayed → accord → campaign
As a statement El-Sayed’s campaign released on Friday put it, “Congresswoman Stevens seems intent on relitigating a primary that ended three months ago.”
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that → release → primary
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