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  • Michigan Democrats are voting today for an open Senate seat that could signal the future

  • direction of the party and possibly shape the battle for control of the chamber this fall.

  • NPR's Sam Greenglass reports the primary is seen as a test of how farther

  • left-leaning candidates looking to disrupt the status quo will fare in a battleground state.

  • Epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed has the backing of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders,

  • who won the Michigan primary in 2016. El-Sayed has made criticism of corporate money and politics central.

  • The problem too often with the Democratic Party is that we have an instinct to say the right thing,

  • but we're bought off by the people who are on the side of doing the wrong thing.

  • Congresswoman Haley Stevens got late endorsements from Michigan heavyweights like Governor Gretchen Whitmer

  • and retiring Senator Gary Peters.

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  • Beaten MAGA four times in my congressional races and I'm passing laws and I'm doing damn good work.

  • Whoever wins will face former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers this fall.

  • Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Farmington Hills, Michigan.

  • Senate Democrats are releasing a report this morning suggesting that big U.S.

  • Banks had concerns for years about money moves made by suspected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

  • But NPR's Scott Horsley reports the banks are accused of keeping those worries to themselves