Progressive Democrats target their 70 -year -old with a basic challenge

Donavan McKini, a representative of Michigan State, announced on Monday that he launches a fundamental challenge for the prosecution Shri Therdar, De Mish, which made him the first candidate to run in the Democratic Inexation 2026 with the support of Judicial Democrats, a group that strengthened the gradual candidates and the working class since 2018.

MCKINNEY was first elected at the Michigan State House in 2022, and represented the fourteenth region. After re -dividing the circles, he was re -elected to the fourteenth representation in 2024, which is located north of Detroit. Now it is running for the 13th Congress in Michigan, which includes some of the city and the surrounding area.

McKini, 32, told a salon that he wanted the party to understand the “needs of ordinary people” and to be like “North Star” in 2026 and beyond. He said: “In my community, this means reducing the costs of daily families, and the greatest obstacle to providing this is a funding system for broken campaigns that allows companies and billionaires to spend unlimited amounts of money to buy our elections and politicians such as Shri.”

Before entering politics, MCKINNEY was the leader of the Union at Seiu Healthcare Michigan. In 2020, he was appointed by the governor of the state of Grechen and passes to work in the state’s environmental justice council, and he is leading the water grant program in the state. In Dar Al -Dawla, Makini defended programs for community violence and public schools.

Thatedar, MCKINNEY opponent, is a 70 -year -old businessman and author was first elected at home in 2022. Thandedar has funded his campaigns largely; Last year, he in turn invested the money from his campaign to the coded currency indicators, and earns a profit of millions of dollars, according to what he mentioned. Detroit News. He has a liberal record in general in Congress and earlier this month Call President Donald Trump was dismissed, but he angered some on the left in 2023 when he announced His resignation Among the Social Democrats in America, quoting the group’s response to terrorist attacks on October 7 in Israel.

In his last campaign in 2022, AIPAC spent about $ 2.3 million against the THANDER discount. AIPAC had previously spent against Thandarar, who was an audio critic of Israeli policy. However, the situation appears to have changed after Thander visited Israel with the group in 2023.

The MCKINNEY campaign cited the luxurious campaign in addition to accepting donations from PACS, which represents Big Pharma, defense and local utilities monopolies as reasons for the challenge of Thatedar. They also accused him of providing fully poor services and the presence of common denominators with billionaire Elon Musk more than his voters.

The announcement on Monday comes after the judge Democrats announced earlier this year that it was launching a campaign to employ candidates in an attempt to push the Democratic Party towards adopting a more progressive agenda and a working class-and facing the impact of money on politics.

McKini said he is planning to “take the battle with them face to face”, which condemns the democrats who “put the interests of companies on our societies” and who cannot be “clear” about the influence of republican donors on democratic policy.

“We need to build and fight for a democratic agenda that does not only activate our rules, but are very popular. Agenda that takes money from politics, and gives everyone the ability to access global health care, quality, affordable health care, clean air and water, full funded general education-this is not controversial or radical, and this is the minimum political parties.

McKini said he sees that an agenda like this is an integral part of creating a strong opposition to the Trump administration. “This is the time to meet the moment, fill the gaps of these politicians who do not do this and take this battle to Donald Trump, Elon Musk and billionaires who destroy this country at our expense,” he said.

In response to a request to comment from a salon, the campaign said: “Voters know my background. I grew up in extreme poverty and good education, hard work, and some luck, I managed to get my education, start a small business and raise my family from poverty.”

“I closely know what looks like the struggle and make their expenses. That is why I am excited to ensure that everyone gets free education, comprehensive health care, and access to skills training to get good -paid jobs. I have achieved my American dream and work tirelessly to ensure that everyone in my region achieves their American dream.” “Until now, we have solved 3000 component cases, and we have regained $ 3 million to the components, and we got 30 projects worth 30 million dollars approved for the region, sponsored and sponsored more than 800 laws, and we fought against Trump’s and catastrophic policies.”