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Spider-Man Star Cheers DSA Wins As Abdul El-Sayed Takes Michigan Race

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Liberal actor Mark Ruffalo cheered the Democratic Socialists of America surge in Michigan.

The “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” star joined a live online fundraiser built around Michigan Democratic Socialists of America candidates Abdul El-Sayed, William Lawrence and Donavan McKinney.

For Ruffalo, the point was not just one primary night in Michigan. It was the payoff to a fight he traced back to 2016.

“This is our movement coming to bear fruit. I mean, this is what we started in 2016. This is where the progressives have been moving. This is our time,” Ruffalo said.

Ball had noted that DSA candidates were scoring more victories over Democrats.

Ruffalo responded by casting the establishment as stuck spending more and more to beat the left.

“And they have to spend more and more money each time to beat us,” Ruffalo said. “And it’s just a matter of time till they flop, and this could be it.”

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El-Sayed delivered the biggest win for the left that night. By the time almost all the ballots were in, El-Sayed was ahead 48.5 percent to 47.5 percent, a margin of just one percentage point with 99 percent counted.

NBC News projected him the winner first, and the Associated Press followed Wednesday morning.

That put El-Sayed on a general-election track against Republican Mike Rogers.

The fundraiser also elevated Lawrence, who was running for Congress, and McKinney, a socialist candidate for the State House.

Michael Moore made the same anti-establishment case on CNN as Michigan’s election-night drama was unfolding Tuesday.

Laura Coates asked Moore why Michigan would be ready for a progressive such as El-Sayed, and the filmmaker answered by pointing to Democrats’ inability to stop Trump.

“Well, first of all, the Democratic Party, the traditionalists, were unable to stop Trump twice,” Moore said.

When Coates pushed the conversation toward whether Democrats needed to break from the status quo, Moore argued that the party would not win by sticking with its old playbook.

“If I could get on my knees and beg, it would be for exactly what you just said,” Moore said.

Moore said he had known El-Sayed for years and worked on his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, calling him someone who would stand up for people “who are dying every day over there.”

The filmmaker’s harshest words were for Democrats he blamed for the party’s defeats.

“I will not support hacks, hacks in the Democratic Party who have led us to this Waterloo,” Moore said.

He warned that young voters would keep pushing, whether or not every progressive won that night.

“The youth of America are going to rise,” he claimed.

The same result that had Ruffalo and Moore cheering handed Republicans a new target.

President Donald Trump treated El-Sayed’s close win as “Great news for the Republican Party,” then branded him a “Communist loser who hates Jews and Israel.”

Trump also used the result to mock polling that had shown Stevens trailing by as much as double digits in final surveys.

“As usual, the Polls were way off on this one. She was not expected to do nearly as well as she did,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Now, the Democrats’ crazy policies will only get worse.”

Vice President JD Vance took two rounds of shots at El-Sayed on Wednesday.

At the White House, he joked about what a future Democratic administration could look like.

“God forbid you’re gonna have President El-Sayed in three years,” Vance said.

Later, on “The Ingraham Angle,” Vance argued that far-left Democratic victories were exposing a party more interested in redistribution than rebuilding industry.

“They’re not promising you industry. They’re not promising you good jobs. They’re not promising self-sufficiency in a good industrial economy. What they’re promising is redistribution,” Vance said.

The Democratic base, Vance argued, wanted “radicals” and candidates hostile to private property.

“It wants people who hate even the idea of private property ownership,” Vance said.

Vance then aimed at El-Sayed’s working-class pitch, saying his immigration positions would hurt wages and his tariff stance would hurt Michigan’s auto industry.

“How does he fight for the working class? By flooding his state and his country with low-wage immigrants,” Vance stated.

The vice president said those workers would drive down wages and accused El-Sayed of fighting the Trump tariffs he credited with saving the auto industry in Michigan.

Vance also rejected what he described as the “limousine socialist” theory of prosperity, arguing that Europe and the United States had already seen the failure of simply redistributing assets.

“That’s not how you build real prosperity,” Vance said.

El-Sayed had already given Republicans another clip before the race was settled.

RNC Research, the Republican National Committee’s opposition-research arm, circulated Tuesday footage of the 40-year-old progressive explaining what Instagram serves him when videos scroll automatically.

In the clip, El-Sayed said his staff could see what he actually looked at on his own Instagram account.

He argued the feed was still pushing him material based on what the platform believed he was.

“Every third video that scrolls on its own is going to be some Only Fans model,” El-Sayed said.

He blamed the algorithm’s read on his demographics.

“And it’s because it clocked me as being a 40-some-year-old man,” El-Sayed said.

Ruffalo, though, had already cast the Michigan moment as the left’s long-awaited opening.

“This is our time,” Ruffalo remarked.

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