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Michigan's Senate race between Republican Mike Rogers and populist Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is shaping up to be a lynchpin in the midterm elections, and not just because it could mean the difference between majority and minority. El-Sayed's message of Money in Your Pocket and Medicare for All has clearly resonated with the season's most energized voters, and his anti-corporate bonafides led him to victory over the more establishment Democrat, Haley Stevens. Today on the show, Matt and David sit down with El-Sayed to discuss markets and his anti-monopoly platform, how Medicare for All will create more competition, the uselessness of PBMs, the way big agriculture bullies Michigan's cherry farmers, beef and meatpacking regulation, the AI bubble, and the importance of Democrats actually doing something if they retake congress.
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I think one thing that is so easy for voters to understand with candidates like this is that they don’t take corporate money. If they don’t take that money, they don’t owe anything to anything. When I phone banked for Nithya Raman back in like 2020 that was always such an easy message to get across to people no matter where they stood on whatever issue
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