The establishment has been going all out to weaken Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. The latest poll numbers show that El-Sayed has been growing in strength and Stevens is slipping. Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has attracted national attention with his violent rhetoric about “choking out” opponents and his campaigning with virulent anti-Semites like Hasan Piker. That comment was widely interpreted as referring to Stevens, and he was pushed to reaffirm it with Stevens standing right next to him on the stage. Yet Democrats seem helpless to stop candidates like Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed, just as they couldn't take Graham Platner out.