DETROIT — Abdul El-Sayed stood with his back to the concrete wall of a high school gym covered in shiny campaign signs and declared an end to Democrats’ divisions.
The progressive Senate candidate had just gotten together with the former president Barack Obama the state’s Democratic list and some of its top officials. Minutes before, he had taken the stage hand in hand with the commander in chief he once criticized and the staunchly moderate secretary of state who is running to be the next governor. Now he was surrounded by rows of reporters who wanted to know: Did this show of solidarity prove that the party was truly united?
"I think that should do it," El-Sayed said.
But Michigan’s election results won’t resolve the Democrats’ civil war. Instead, the conflict at the start of the primaries, which is central to the party’s presidential ambitions, is only intensifying.
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