Haley Stevens

Tuesday

Brendan O’Neill

In defense of Haley Stevens

The digital left has a new hate figure: Haley Stevens. She’s the Democrat who has put a bomb under the Michigan Senate race in today’s midterms by backing the Republican candidate Mike Rogers over the Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed. “Traitor,” “racist,” “Islamophobe,” “bitch” – she’s had all that, and worse, from the Be Kind mob. I have a better word for her: hero. That’s what Stevens has done: shone a light on the Israelophobia that stinks up the modern left It takes courage to stand up to entitled potty-mouths of the modern left.

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Sunday

Jacob Heilbrunn

What explains Haley Stevens’s ‘despicable betrayal’ of Abdul El-Sayed?

From our US edition

That was fast. One moment Representative Haley Stevens, who was defeated by Abdul El-Sayed in the primary for US Senate in Michigan, was supposed to mend fences with the Democratic candidate at a party unity event in Detroit. The next she’s endorsing Mike Rogers, his Republican opponent. A chaotic press conference on Sunday ended with Stevens declaring that no candidate is “perfect” and being heckled as a “traitor” before she was hustled away by the Rogers camp.   Why did she do it? One answer is the virago theory. Angered by her loss, she’s having a public meltdown. Another is that El-Sayed treated her poorly. He’s hardly short on arrogance and Stevens had her fill of it.

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Tuesday

Cockburn

Does Congress need more goths?

From our US edition

“It could be really cool if Congress was filled with goth people,” Kelley Dennison, the 27-year-old Republican nominee for Colorado’s 2nd congressional district, told the Daily Caller. The Gen Z massage therapist is campaigning on an unexpected aesthetic, selling merchandise that tout her as “America’s Goth Baddie.” But her campaign is predicated on more than her dark eyeliner and tattoos. Dennison is “Colorado first,” running on traditional conservative and populist policies on affordability, environmental conservation and family. Though Dennison was raised in a Democratic household, she has come to believe that party’s principles “don’t pay my bills.” “Colorado won’t be gamed for political currency or an agenda.

Friday

Bill McMorris

Barack is back… to save the Democratic Party he stymied

From our US edition

When Barack Obama set out to fundamentally transform the country, he took for granted that it could be transformed back — and could only look on as America sent a populist billionaire to do just that. The aspiring media mogul has only now discovered that part of a politician's legacy is the successors he leaves behind. It has dawned on Obama that his chief legacy from eight years in office will not be healthcare reform but Joe Biden — and now he is scrambling to cultivate a new champion. Politico is reporting that America's first black president is holding closed-door meetings with the likes of House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, socialist darling Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and moderate Michigan representative Haley Stevens to try to find an heir worthy of the crown.

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