Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan, becoming the latest leftwing candidate to capture the party’s nomination ahead of November’s midterm elections. The Associated Press called the race on Wednesday morning, moments after Stevens’s campaign said she had called El-Sayed to concede. Should he win in November, and beat Rogers in the general election in Michigan, El-Sayed could become the first Muslim US senator. Until earlier this summer, the race was a three-way race with Mallory McMorrow, a state senator who eventually dropped out. “We’re still standing,” he told the raucous crowd, arguing Michigan voters were motivated less by ideological divides than by the rising cost of rent, groceries and healthcare.