Detroit — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rallied supporters of Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit Saturday night, telling Michigan voters they faced a choice in the Aug. 4 primary of historical and national significance.
About 2,000 people gathered inside the Detroit Opera House to hear from Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers. All three have endorsed El-Sayed, a progressive former health official from Ann Arbor, in his race for the Democratic nomination against U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens of Birmingham.
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Fain repeatedly touted El-Sayed’s push to guarantee government-provided
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