The Democratic Party is at war with itself right now, and it's playing out in primary races all across the country.
On one side, you have the centrist establishment Democrats making a familiar argument.
We have to pick up Democrats in these swing states,
and those are usually the more successful candidates are the moderate candidates.
On the other, it's the progressives who argue that the country wants populist fighters
who are looking to upend the status quo entirely.
Together, we will usher in a generation of change.
And if there's one place where this civil war is playing out most clearly, it's definitely Michigan.
There's a stark contrast there between the two candidates running in the Senate Democratic primary,
Congresswoman Haley Stevens and former public health official Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.
Now, Stevens has the backing of the Democratic establishment and people like Chuck Schumer.
She says that El-Sayed is two left.
Too untested, and simply too extreme for a general election that Democrats have to win.
The GOP is spending thousands of dollars to prop up your campaign
because they think they will make it easier for Mike Rogers to win if you are the nominee.
In the end, it all comes down to the dreaded E-word, electability,
because that's the concept that's at the heart of the Democratic Civil War, whether the party wants to admit it or not.
If you're a person of color or a progressive or a woman, it always comes up for candidates.
Sure, you can win the primary, but are you electable in a general election?
So in Michigan, one candidate is trying to turn the electability concept on its head.