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>Today, I'm announcing that I am suspending my campaign for United States Senate.

>And I'm doing it with a deep, deep sense of gratitude. For our thousands of volunteers, for everyone who donated what you could — building a campaign with zero corporate PAC dollars. For my staff, who built this team up from nothing. I thank you.

>For my family. For Ray, who believed in me long before I ever believed in myself. And for Noa. Our five-year-old, who presses her hands up against the window to wave goodbye every morning when I leave for work.

>"Remember, Mom," she reminded me recently. "It's not about if you win. It's about trying hard and having fun."

>She's right. So I want to be very clear about what this announcement is not. I may be suspending this campaign, but I am not leaving the fight.

>I never planned on politics. After the 2016 election, I felt lost. I picked up my phone and typed five words into the search bar: "How to run for office."

>And here's what I learned: when regular people get in the fight, things can change. In my very first election, we flipped a district against the incumbent. Four years later — with so many of you — we flipped the Michigan Senate for the first time in nearly forty years.

>And we didn’t stop at winning. We repealed Michigan's abortion ban. We raised wages. We made sure every child gets breakfast and lunch at school. We made it easier to go to college. We expanded civil rights and voting rights. And so, so much more.

>These wins took thousands of us — showing up every single day, refusing to give up when there were setbacks. That's why I'm staying in this fight. And why I need you to stay in it with me.

>Now, I haven’t been shy about calling for new leadership and a better Democratic Party. I mean it. The energy is there. People are crying out for change. And we owe it to them to listen.

>Then we need to build it up, together, from the ground up.

>So here's what we do next. Every day through November 3rd. We win this Senate seat and send Mike Rogers back to Florida for good. Whoever wins this primary on August 4th will have my full support.

>Then, let’s elect Jocelyn Benson as our next Governor. Let’s flip the State House, and expand our majority in the State Senate. Let’s elect Democrats up and down the ticket and show the rest of this country what it means to fight like Michigan.

>Ten years ago, I started this work heartbroken, typing five words into a search bar. And I learned the only thing that has ever really changed this country: ordinary people who love something enough to fight for it.

>I love this country. I love Michigan. And I love the little girl who waves at me from the window every morning, trusting the grown-ups to leave her a state and a country worth inheriting.

>That's who I'm fighting for.

>And I'm not going anywhere. I hope you'll join me.

I always said that while I understood why she had decided to stay out of the previous primaries of last month, my red line is Abdul El-Sayed, & that I would be deeply disappointed on her if she didn't endorse him.

Now, she has delivered.

Here's the full NYT article:

Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Abdul El-Sayed in Crucial Michigan Senate Race

The endorsement is the first in a contested Senate primary by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this year, in a state that Democrats believe they must hold this fall to win a Senate majority.

>Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the nation’s most prominent progressives, is endorsing Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for Senate in Michigan, wading into her first contested Senate primary of 2026 in one of the nation’s top battlegrounds.

>Her endorsement, which she made in an interview with The New York Times, represents one of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s most assertive moves so far this year to build up the left flank of the Democratic Party. And it puts the congresswoman from New York in direct conflict with Senator Chuck Schumer, who has backed a more moderate candidate, Representative Haley Stevens, who he argues is more electable.

>Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said she holds the opposite view. She made the case that it is Dr. El-Sayed who has energized voters and built the kind of campaign and coalition to deliver the crucial state for Democrats.

>“Despite our ideological differences and whatever disagreements there are in the party, every single one of us sees this moment as existential,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. “And I think many people are willing to put aside differences in order to give us the best chance at winning. And I think that Abdul gives us that right now.”

>Her intervention could energize progressive activists, who see a potential champion in Dr. El-Sayed. It could also enrage establishment-minded Democrats who are fearful that the party will fumble away a crucial Senate seat in a year that favors Democrats by veering left in a battleground state that voted for President Trump in 2024.

>Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement follows a series of left-wing victories in competitive House primaries in deep-blue districts in Colorado and New York. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez did not endorse in those races. But the results have emboldened many on the left to believe that 2026 is the year to take power, not just from Republicans, but inside the Democratic Party itself.

>The Michigan primary, scheduled for Aug. 4, is widely seen as the most consequential Democratic nominating contest left on the calendar this year.

>The race pits Dr. El-Sayed, an outspoken progressive proponent of Medicare for all, against the moderate Ms. Stevens, who has been boosted by more than $16 million in super PAC spending, including millions from pro-Israel groups. Mallory McMorrow, a state senator who has built a national following of her own, has run as a progressive and tried to occupy an ideological middle ground between the other two.

>Dr. El-Sayed, who would be the nation’s first Muslim senator, has emerged as the front-runner in recent public and private polls.

>Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was careful not to directly criticize Ms. Stevens, who serves in the House with her. But she effusively praised Dr. El-Sayed’s communications skills, which she said are as essential to modern campaigning as anything else.

>“Just like it’s extremely challenging to run candidates that can’t raise money, it’s also just as challenging to run a candidate that can’t message online,” said Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who for years has been one of party’s magnets for attention on social media. “I think we’ve now kind of crossed this Rubicon where online and digital messaging is no longer a niche. It is a core competency, just like any other.”

>Other Democrats fear that Dr. El-Sayed, who earned an endorsement last year from Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and who pushed to “abolish ICE” in a recent ad, is too liberal for a state with a history of embracing centrist Democrats.

>Whoever wins the Democratic nomination will face Mike Rogers, a Republican former congressman who lost in 2024 to Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, by the narrowest of margins: fewer than 20,000 votes.

>In a separate interview Wednesday, Dr. El-Sayed said he was thrilled to receive “the A.O.C. seal of approval,” her first Senate endorsement of the cycle in a contested primary. He also recently won the backing of the United Auto Workers union, which has a storied history in the state.

>“I’m honored for what her support says about what this campaign is building and what we’re fighting for,” he said. He also waved off fears about his electability.

>“I think too many establishment Democrats are more afraid that I will win,” he said. “That’s really what they’re trying to avoid.”

>He called out Mr. Schumer in particular.

>“He doesn’t want to see me on the inside of the U.S. Senate,” Dr. El-Sayed said, adding that he would call out “the kind of politics where we take money from corporations and AIPAC to run milquetoast campaigns and don’t say anything about the problems that everyday people are facing.”

>Ms. Ocasio-Cortez downplayed any breach with her state’s senior senator. Mr. Schumer is up for re-election in 2028, and she has been widely discussed as a potential primary challenger if he seeks re-election. “I don’t really see this through that lens,” she said of the endorsement, while also praising Mr. Schumer’s recruits in other states this year, including Ohio and Alaska. “It’s natural to not be in agreement 100 percent of the time on 100 percent of decisions.”

>In some ways, the endorsement is unsurprising. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, now 36, supported Dr. El-Sayed, 41, in his insurgent run for governor — she endorsed him exactly eight years ago to the day — just after she won her first primary in 2018.

>The two candidates share the goal of bringing both generational and ideological change to the Democratic Party. They are both millennials and protégés of Mr. Sanders, and both embrace an expansive vision of what government can do for the working class and are outspoken critics of some of Israel’s policies. When she talks about Dr. El-Sayed, their familiarity is evident in her use of his first name.

>Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has brought her star power to endorsements both sparingly and strategically. She did not endorse Graham Platner in Maine, for instance, when the progressive backed by Mr. Sanders was locked in a primary against the state’s more moderate two-term governor.

>She was also on the sidelines in her home state last month, when two left-wing candidates, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Brad Lander, ousted incumbent House Democrats, while a third candidate, Claire Valdez, won in an open seat against a Democrat backed by the old-guard establishment of Brooklyn. All three earned the backing of Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York.

>Nor did she endorse in Colorado, where Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist, defeated a 15-term incumbent, Representative Diana DeGette, on Tuesday.

>So far, in fact, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has backed no challengers to any of her colleagues in the House. But when she has endorsed, her blessing appears to have mattered.

>She backed Democratic candidates for the House in four states — California, New Jersey, Montana and Pennsylvania — all of whom won contested primaries. That includes two solidly Democratic seats and two Republican-held seats that Democrats are hoping to flip this fall.

>Even her lack of an endorsement can have an impact, as it appears to have done in San Francisco, where she pointedly did not back her former chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, who finished in third place without her support in the race to replace the retiring former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

>Dr. El-Sayed said it was unclear what role Ms. Ocasio-Cortez would play in the final weeks of the primary campaign, or whether she would appear on the trail or in ads. But he said change was in the air.

>“People are demanding different,” he said.

He's so hot btw 😭 a lucky woman for sure !!

After watching her new interview with Vaush I really want her to win, but she is at a 7.2% on Polymarket which is brutal, & yeah I know Polymarket is evil & that they failed to predict Darializa's victory, but still, they did predict that Darializa had a 27% chance of winning, & a 27% isn't a 7.2%...

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THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT IS GETTING NERVOUS

>The political establishment — Democratic and Republican — is getting nervous. So are the Oligarchs and the corporate media they own.  

>The world they dominate is beginning to shake beneath them. Change is coming.  And they don’t like it.

>What we saw on Tuesday in New York, what we are seeing all across the country, is that ordinary people are getting involved in the political process, are taking on establishment candidates, and are winning. What is particularly frightening to the establishment is that many of the candidates, and their supporters, are young. The future belongs to them and they want that future to look very different from what it is today.

>It’s not complicated. Progressives and democratic socialists are winning elections because the vast majority of the American people understand that status quo politics and policies are not working.  You don’t have to be a PhD in economics to know that in America today the very rich are getting much richer while the vast majority of our people are struggling to pay for the basic necessities — healthcare, housing, food, education and utilities. You don’t have to be a sociologist to realize that the younger generation will likely have a lower standard of living than their parents.  You don’t need to be a political scientist to understand that we have a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires and their super PACS to buy elections, undermine democracy, and protect their privileged positions. 

>The American people, across the political spectrum, are rejecting the establishment’s  uber-capitalist ideology, value system and priorities.  They want an economy and a government that works for all, not just wealthy campaign contributors. 

>More and more Americans refuse to accept the current reality that:

>One man, Mr. Musk, owns more than three times as much wealth as the bottom half of our society.  That billionaires and large profitable corporations often pay an effective tax rate lower than truck drivers or nurses. They are demanding that the billionaire class starts paying their fair share of taxes.

>We are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right. They want Medicare for All.  

>Tens of millions of workers are earning starvation wages. They want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage and make it easier for workers to join unions.

>Big Tech and the wealthiest people on earth are aggressively pushing AI and robotics, the most transformative technologies in history, without public input. They want these technologies to benefit all, not just the handful of billionaires who own the industry.  

>Nearly 800,000 Americans are homeless, and more than 20 million households are spending 50% or more of their limited incomes on housing. They want a freeze on rent and the construction of millions of units of low income and affordable housing.

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