Michigan has voted, and now Minnesota and Wisconsin are up next in the Democratic primary wars. Ryan Cooper, senior editor at The American Prospect, joins the show to look back at what the Michigan results revealed and look ahead at what’s coming this week. We discuss why electability arguments are so hard to trust, why an outside spending gap didn’t stop Abdul El-Sayed’s win, why Francesca Hong is leading her Wisconsin race by 25 points despite skepticism from the governor and some national progressives, and why a spending advantage in a low-turnout, low-information primary might matter more than ideology.
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