The Hill has made a call too: El-Sayed beats Stevens to take on Rogers in battleground Michigan Senate race. NBC declared El-Sayed the winner, but The Associated Press said the race was too close to call with over 90% of ballots counted. As of early Wednesday morning, El-Sayed was leading Stevens by roughly 21,000 votes—or just over one percentage point. An El-Sayed victory would be a brutal defeat for AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying organization that shelled out over $30 million to defeat him. “AIPAC fell on its face in Michigan,” the progressive advocacy group RootsAction said in response to the primary results.