“Abdul El-Sayed has a frank private assessment of what victory in the Michigan Senate Democratic primary over Rep. Haley Stevens would mean,” Politico reports.“During a recent Zoom donor meeting, El-Sayed indicated that a win in the Aug. 4 contest — and another one in November — would give him a platform to push the progressive movement forward.”Said El-Sayed, according to audio of the meeting: “You put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message, and all of a sudden starts to sound a lot different.”