ROCK ‘EM, SOCK ‘EM

One day you’re friends, the next, foes. So it seems for Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Mallory McMorrow. Currently the three-way race – Oakland Congresswoman Haley Stevens is the third, and most moderate leg of the stool – has seen the most acrimonious action between El-Sayed, a staunch progressive who counts Senator Bernie Sanders as his backer and mentor, and McMorrow, who straddles the center some days and further left others. El-Sayed has been accusing McMorrow of “stealing” some of his positions, such as his, and Sanders, ‘Medicare-for-All’ which firmly prohibits citizens from keeping their private medical insurance if it passes. At a recent union event in Washington DC, however, it seemed that El-Sayed was leaning McMorrow’s way, after she allegedly made clear while there was a need for improvements in healthcare, union members could keep their healthcare – and he seemed to say the same thing. According to Punchbowl, he also accused McMorrow of copying his positions on regulating data centers and her stance on ICE – as well as accepting PAC money in previous campaigns, something she currently is disavowing. “I said ‘abolish ICE’ back in 2018,” El-Sayed is quoted by Punchbowl .“Now one of my opponents is going to ‘ICE out’ protests, but won’t actually talk about what we do. So we get our ICE out, but then we’re going to reform ICE,” accusing her of “co-opting” his left-wing positions. A lot of centrists – and right wing, too, for that matter – may feel that way about ICE these days.

Abdul El-Sayed

Mallory McMorrow