The Intercept reports:

Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a progressive Palestinian American, won 62 percent of the vote in Dearborn compared to Republican candidate James Hooper’s 30 percent. She was easily reelected to a fourth term.

For observers, the contrast between Tlaib’s strong performance and Harris’s weakness is striking.

“Working class voters across this country no longer see the Democratic Party as a Party that fights for their interests,” said Usamah Andrabi, the communications director of Justice Democrats, “and they saw Rashida Tlaib as someone who does for the very reason that she bucked her Party’s leadership, because she refused to ignore the needs of her constituents — which in this case meant opposing a genocide.” [Continue reading…]