El-Sayed became the center of a heated debate on the left after he appeared at a campaign rally alongside Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who is known for his outlandish rhetoric.
Graham Platner, a political newcomer, quickly won the endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., after launching his campaign in August, tapping into Democrats' disenchantment with party leaders.
A mathematician by training, he earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later taught at the University of Chicago before entering public office. He served in the Illinois House and Senate from 2011 to 2019, where he built a reputation as a policy-driven progressive focused on campaign finance reform, voting access, and structural changes to government.
This group of people here this morning is the best reminder of what's at stake. We are in a crisis for working people in this country. I would say that the transition from Jan Schakowsky to me is one of generational change, for sure. There's nobody else who's done both things that I think we need right now—fought and won inside of government, making real change, and fought and won out on the streets as an activist.
I was a math professor at the University of Chicago. I started there in 2002 and certainly never envisioned getting into politics. But if you think about what [was] happening then, it's the year after 9/11, six months before the war in Iraq, we're watching as the country has been lied into a war by George W Bush. And frankly, too many Democrats were too scared to say what was obvious.
The Trump administration purchased a giant warehouse in rural Roxbury Township, New Jersey, for $129.3 million with plans to convert it into one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. The plan is not only unpopular among a bipartisan swath of residents, but it's also roiling what was already shaping up to be a gripping and crowded Democratic primary in the state's 7th Congressional District.
In Texas, where the Party hasn't managed to elect a Democrat as governor or to the Senate in more than thirty years, it nominated its arguably stronger candidate for the general election, and slightly more people voted in the Democratic primary than in the Republican one. I'd call that a good night.
In the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, when the Goldman family was in Israel, Corinne Goldman liked and shared several posts that have come under renewed scrutiny. One post that she liked showed people holding a "Jews for Palestine" sign with the message, "Chickens for KFC," implying that the sign-holders were endorsing their own murder.
North Carolina is a purple state that often gets labeled red, but we're not a red state. We are a state of working-class folks who just want their elected officials to champion the issues that are impacting them.
Graham Platner has never run for elected office before. He's a war veteran, an oyster farmer, and now he's running in a Democratic primary to eventually unseat Senator Susan Collins of Maine. He's ahead in the polls, but he's also been criticized for Reddit comments from his past and recently covered up a tattoo that looks suspiciously like a Nazi symbol.
Encontrar una mujer hermosa, buena onda, no interesada, con buen corazon es mas dificil que pegarle a la loteria. No imposible, pero cabron—finding a beautiful, cool, non-self-interested, kind-hearted woman is harder than winning the lottery. Not impossible, but it's a bitch to do.
Driving the news: The 13-candidate Democratic primary to replace now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey's 11th congressional district ended in a dead heat between progressive organizer Analilia Mejia and former Rep. Tom Malinowski. With several thousand provisional and late mail-in still to be counted as of Friday, Mejia led Malinowski by 500 votes, 28.75% to 27.97%, according to the Associated Press. Mejia trailed many of her opponents in fundraising, bringing in just $420,000 to Malinowski's $1.2 million.
