Is Abdul El-Sayed's win a moment or a movement? | Finley

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : But Democrats are normal no more. Tuesday's nomination of the apparent socialist Abdul El-Sayed as the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, and gains by far-left candidates in other races, are political lunacy on a scale to match anything Republicans have done over the past two decades.
48% : Pollster Steve Mitchell notes the socialists are the only element of the electorate enthusiastic about voting for a candidate, rather than against one.
47% : But whether this becomes a movement, as MAGA did, or is simply a moment, depends on whether El-Sayed and other hard progressives on the ballot, including Garlin Gilchrist for secretary of state, Eli Savit for attorney general, and Will Lawrence the socialist who won the Democratic nomination in the 7th Congressional District, can broaden their appeal to the independents who decide most elections.
37% : Meijer fears the sucess of El-Sayed and others of his ilk will make Democrats in Congress hesitant to support lesgislation to protect Israel.
25% : That often has devolved into antisemitism and has become a major dividing line between Democrats who stand with the Jewish state, as Stevens does, and those such as El-Sayed who blame Israel.
22% : "The problem on the Democratic side is less about the Democratic Socialist wave rising and more that the center of the party, the establishment, is collapsing," says former Republican Congressman Peter Meijer, whose political career was ended by Trump's purge of the GOP.
22% : There's no glossing over that this movement is deeply rooted in the anti-Israel campus protests that rose out of Hamas' brutal Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, and the war that followed.

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