The November race between El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers will help determine Senate control and test whether progressives can win in Michigan, a key battleground state. His win, however slim, represents a significant shift for the Democratic Party; in 2018 he lost the gubernatorial primary to now-Gov. “We have got to work together to take this country back,” Curtis Hertel, the chair of Michigan Democratic Party, said. Michigan is a must-win Senate race for DemocratsThe race will help decide which party controls the chamber in the last two years of Trump’s term. That included Melat Kiros, who recently beat a longtime incumbent in a Democratic primary for a Denver-based House seat and was at El-Sayed’s watch party.