Dingell calls for Democratic unity ahead of Michigan Senate primary

In the closing days of a competitive Michigan Senate primary, a senior Democratic voice is asking her party to remember what primaries are for. Rep. Debbie Dingell, speaking with the authority of long experience in a state where margins are rarely comfortable, urged Democrats to begin the work of unity before the votes between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens are even counted. Her appeal acknowledges something parties often prefer to leave unspoken: that the contest to choose a champion can itself become a wound, and that wounds left untended have a way of reopening in November.