# What Next - A ‘Michigan Mamdani’? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-news-494234/what-next-a-michigan-mamdani Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-news-494234/what-next-a-michigan-mamdani.md Podcast: [Slate News](https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-news-494234) Published: 2026-04-29T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/whatnext-daily-news-and-analysis/episodes/69f0e88c2f651f55f5096bcb Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6961268923ce58f14615840d/a/slatenews-podcasts/e/69f0e88c2f651f55f5096bcb/media.mp3 Processing state: processed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/slate-news-494234/episodes/what-next-a-michigan-mamdani Duration seconds: 1804 ## Resource Democrats are starting to let themselves feel a little optimistic about the fall midterms, which is just about time for the fight between the centrists and the slightly-left-of-centrist party wings to get ugly. But a candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan is trying to sidestep another internecine fight by keeping his eye on the goal. Guest:  Abdul El-Sayed , Michigan Senate candidate , physician, former director of the Wayne County Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/slate-news-494234/episodes/what-next-a-michigan-mamdani/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-news-494234/what-next-a-michigan-mamdani.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.