Abdul El-Sayed's TIGHT Michigan Win, Talarico's Texas Chances, and Tucker Carlson Teases NEW Party, with Mark Halperin | Ep. 1374

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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM channel 111, every weekday at noon east.
Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. We begin with a political earthquake in the Democratic Party. Last night, Abdul El-Sayed defeated establishment candidate, Representative Haley Stevens in the Michigan race for the Democrat primary. This is for the US Senate seat out of Michigan. They're trying to figure out who the Democrat nominee will be to go up against the Republican nominee who is now officially Mike Rogers. This is the race in which we had the weird Chris Farley lady down by the river, you know, who is saying, I'm going to work for the Michiganders. That lady, she lost. But it was actually a much closer contest than the polls had suggested. The polls had made it look like El-Sayed was going to crush her by, you know, double digits. And it wound up being a squeaker.
So there's some cause for concern amongst Democrats who were just interested in holding on to this seat. Because this could be, this would be a Republican pickup if Mike Rogers wins it. And now they have a little reason to worry because while El-Sayed's popular amongst Democrats, obviously he just won the nomination, he is more controversial than the weird Chris Farley lady. And probably has a better chance of losing. But by no means is that guaranteed. This is an outsider kind of year. It's really not a great year for Republicans, or at least expected to be. And so what's actually going to happen in November? That's, that's anyone's guess right now. We're going to have to watch it.
So in any event, it looks like it's official. It was like so close that as of about two hours ago, still multiple outlets were not calling it, but now the Associated Press, NBC, CNN, they're all calling it for El-Sayed. He is a former health official in Michigan's largest county. He's 41 years old. He's a Muslim progressive who was endorsed by AOC and the whole squad. Hasan Piker, who's this, I don't know how to describe him, controversial, very left wing podcaster, as well as Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed him. He's going to take on, as I mentioned, Mike Rogers in the general. And he, Abdul El-Sayed, had this to say last night. Watch.

**Abdul El-Sayed** (2:51)
And so as folks ask, if and when we win this race, how are you going to beat Mike Rogers and their money? I want you to remind them that if we come through this, when we come through this, inshallah, speaking Arabic, that we'll have taken 70 million dollars on the chin and kept fighting back. Let's come together to build a movement that's even bigger, that's even stronger, that's even more powerful, that reaches into the very depths of this state, that reminds us the best of who we are and who we can be. That is the commitment I want all of us to be making as we leave here tonight.
And so Mike, and I know you're listening, Mike, we are coming for you.

**Megyn Kelly** (3:58)
El-Sayed sounds quite a bit different than his competitor, Haley Stevens, a far more traditional candidate and not withstanding her weirdness, the favorite of the Democrat establishment. Remember this?

**Haley Stevens** (4:12)
I am going to be working on our behalf. I am going to be telling the stories on our behalf.
And you better believe I'm going to be doing it with a little bit of joy, a little bit of enthusiasm, a little bit of energy, and a little bit of stick it to them. Because that's the Michigan way.

**Megyn Kelly** (4:31)
Why do all our favorite candidates keep losing? First, we had to suffer the defeat of Katie Porter in California, and now this gal goes away in Michigan. All the fun ones get run out of politics. About 80 percent of the $80 million, $80 million was spent on this race, which is a huge number for a Democrat primary. About 80 percent of that went toward helping that weird lady defeat this guy. But it was not enough.
She was just too weird.
You can't really blame them, can you? I was like, why didn't the Democrats have somebody who was more normal to take on this guy, El-Sayed, if they really didn't want this one, this one super progressive guy to win? You should have found somebody who really didn't remind everyone of Chris Farley and not in the best way. That we all love Chris Farley. But, you know, you know what I'm saying? Again, this guy, El-Sayed, was said to have led by over 10 points in the Real Clear Politics polling average, and that included polls where he was way ahead.