Progressive heavyweights from across the country descended on Detroit this week for a rally promoting the campaigns of progressive Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Donovan McKinney.

Fresh off a string of primary victories in New York, the Democratic Party’s left wing is betting that it can expand its ranks by notching key wins in Michigan.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., headlined a rally at the Detroit Opera House on Saturday, urging supporters to back their preferred slate of progressive candidates ahead of Michigan’s Democratic primaries.

Sanders attacked the financial backers of Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens, who is running against El-Sayed in the Democratic primary for Senate.

“The billionaire class, which has already — and there are two weeks left to go in the election — has already spent $50 million against him,” Sanders said. “Now I want everybody here throughout the state, people turning on the TVs and they see all these ads, I want you to ask yourself a simple question: Why are the richest people in the country spending tens and tens of millions of dollars to defeat Abdul El-Sayed?”

Moderate Congressional Democrats such as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator John Fetterman have recently pushed back against meddling by Sanders and AOC in primaries.

“You know, humble yourself, Bernie. You know, you just push[ed] an accused rapist and imploded up in Maine, and now you’re pushing, you know, essentially a pro-Hamas candidate that’s been anti-American and deeply anti-Israel,” Fetterman said during a recent interview.

El-Sayed has been no stranger to controversy, as people have questioned his associations with far-left podcaster Hasan Piker, and a campaign staffer of his who has been indicted for anti-semitic crimes against the Jewish Federation of Detroit.

With the Michigan primary just two weeks away, recent polling has Stevens and El-Sayed in a close race, with the two candidates trading leads in the four most recent polls.

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