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Pro-Israel GOP donors fueling Rep. Stevens' Dem primary in Michigan

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The August 4th Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat pits Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), backed by nearly $15 million (to-date) in support from a super PAC controlled by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), against Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate who characterized Israel’s war in Gaza as a “genocide” and blamed “the impact of AIPAC in our politics” for the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran. Stevens and the AIPAC-backed United Democracy Project (UDP) find themselves in an expensive battle against the Democratic Party’s own voters. (Pew found that 80% of Democrats and De

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