The Michigan Democratic Party held its big endorsement convention in Detroit on Sunday and — we’re not exaggerating here — they couldn’t even get through a single speech without a full-blown civil war erupting on the convention floor. Rep. Haley Stevens, a sitting congresswoman running for Michigan’s open Senate seat, walked up to the podium at Huntington Place to make her case to over 7,000 delegates, and the crowd started screaming “SHAME” at her like she’d just kicked a puppy on live television.
Her crime? She supports Israel. At a *Democratic* convention. Somebody grab the popcorn.
Stevens has the backing of AIPAC and the Democratic establishment — you know, the people who used to actually run the party before the inmates took over the asylum. But the delegates weren’t having it. They booed her throughout her entire speech, raised their fists, and chanted “Shame on you” as she walked off stage. Stevens, bless her heart, tried the diplomacy route: “Democrats, I love you, even when we disagree.” That went over about as well as you’d expect when the crowd is foaming at the mouth.
Now here’s where it gets really fun. Stevens’ primary opponent is a guy named Abdul El-Sayed, who’s endorsed by Bernie Sanders (naturally) and has called Israel’s military actions “genocide.” El-Sayed has been campaigning alongside Hasan Piker — a far-left internet streamer who once described certain Orthodox Jews as “inbred” and went out of his way to downplay the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7th.
These are the people running the Michigan Democratic Party now. Not the union guys. Not the auto workers. The Hamas cheerleaders and a Twitch streamer who thinks antisemitism is edgy content.
Stevens actually tried to warn her own party that embracing Piker was going to be an electoral disaster. She was right, of course, but Democrats don’t want to hear that. They want to scream at Jewish allies and then act confused when they lose Michigan by double digits.
And the convention logistics? Oh, this was the cherry on top. The mobile voting apps crashed. The tablet systems couldn’t handle the volume of delegates. People stood in line for hours because the registration system didn’t work. Some eligible delegates couldn’t even vote because the party’s own tech failed them. And when the votes were finally tallied — hours behind schedule — the Michigan Democratic Party *refused to release the actual vote counts, margins, or percentages.*
(Because nothing says “democracy” like hiding the vote totals at your own convention.)
Remember, this is the party that spent four years telling us that questioning election processes makes you a domestic terrorist. But when their own convention can’t count votes and won’t show the receipts? Totally fine. Nothing to see here.
Meanwhile — and this is the part that should make every Democrat strategist cry into their pillow — Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, endorsed by President Trump, was out actually campaigning and talking to Michigan voters while Democrats were busy tearing each other apart on a convention floor that looked like a cage match at a faculty lounge.
We’ve been saying for years that the Democratic Party’s coalition was held together with duct tape and guilt. Support for Israel used to be a bipartisan given. Now a Democrat can’t even say she supports America’s closest ally in the Middle East without getting shouted down by her own delegates.
The Left loves to lecture everyone about “big tent” politics and “unity.” They put those words on banners and hang them at every convention. And then they boo a sitting congresswoman off the stage for having a foreign policy position that 70% of Americans agree with.
Mike Rogers should send the Michigan Democratic Party a thank-you card. They just ran his campaign for him.