What did Harry Enten say about Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan Senate race?

Harry Enten said Michigan is the state where the media narrative and the polling are furthest apart. While commentators expected Israel to help Republican Mike Rogers, Enten said voters who rank Israel as a top issue lean toward Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, whose favorability is higher than Rogers's. He pointed to a CNN poll with El-Sayed up seven after a post-primary Fox poll had Rogers up four, while allowing that primary polling had overestimated El-Sayed.

• Tommy Vietor said the polling average had El-Sayed up almost four points and disclosed that he has supported El-Sayed since the primary.
• Vietor and Enten also discussed fake pollsters such as the invented Wedgwood Polling and expect more of them in the AI era.

▸In their words

“I'm not sure there's a state in which the two of them are further apart than the Wolverine state.” Harry Enten · at 25:46 — open in the transcript →

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