{"id":29372,"date":"2026-08-05T10:09:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=29372"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:09:53","slug":"game-day-nbc-calls-mi-dem-senate-primary-for-el-sayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/05\/game-day-nbc-calls-mi-dem-senate-primary-for-el-sayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Day! NBC Calls MI-Dem Senate primary for El-Sayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mediaite: MI-Sen \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/abdul-el-sayed-fends-off-30-million-aipac-ad-buy-to-win-michigan-primary-nbc-projects\/\">They&#8217;ve Seen Enough: Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Primary, NBC Projects<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/05\/michigan-primary-race-democrats-midterms-senate-el-sayed-haley-stevens-donald-trump-republicans-us-politics-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&#038;page=with%3Ablock-6a7326b48f0821d9ede5afef#block-6a7326b48f0821d9ede5afef\">Guardian<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/08\/05\/us\/michigan-election-results-primary\/heres-the-latest\">NYT<\/a> also call it)<\/p>\n<p>NYT: AZ-Gov \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/04\/us\/elections\/arizona-governor-running-mate.html\">Arizona\u2019s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: MI-07 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/progressive-activist-wins-democratic-primary-one-nations-biggest-house-rcna590892\">Progressive activist wins Democratic primary in one of the country\u2019s biggest House races<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WaPo: TN-05 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/05\/bill-lee-endorses-charlie-hatchers-challenge-rep-andy-ogles-primary\/\">In a blow to Trump, Tennessee\u2019s Republican governor endorses a challenge to a sitting GOP congressman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Semafor: MI-Sen \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/08\/05\/2026\/after-tough-michigan-primary-democrats-set-sights-on-rogers\">After tough Michigan primary, Democrats set sights on Rogers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AlterNet: KS-BI \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/kansas-voters\/\">Kansas voters reject GOP-backed measure to directly elect state Supreme Court justices<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: MO-01 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/rep-wesley-bell-defeats-former-rep-cori-bush-missouri-democratic-prima-rcna589755\">Rep. Wesley Bell defeats former Rep. Cori Bush in a Missouri Democratic primary rematch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: MO-BI \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/04\/us\/elections\/missouri-citizen-led-constitutional-amendments.html\">Missouri Voters Reject Measure to Limit Their Ballot Box Powers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hill; WI-Gov \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/6008300-hong-wisconsin-democratic-socialist-primary-test\/\">Democratic socialists turn to Hong in Wisconsin with hopes for next big win<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But that wasn&#8217;t the only big news to emerge from a big Primary Day\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}