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{"id":26752,"date":"2026-08-05T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thanedar-becomes-latest-incumbent-to-fall-to-a-progressive-challenger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:02:39","slug":"thanedar-becomes-latest-incumbent-to-fall-to-a-progressive-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thanedar-becomes-latest-incumbent-to-fall-to-a-progressive-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanedar becomes latest incumbent to fall to a progressive challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar lost his primary to democratic socialist Donavan McKinney on Wednesday \u2014 the latest victory for progressives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/06\/24\/mamdani-democratic-socialists-new-york-primaries-left-00973253\" target=\"_blank\">who\u2019ve been on a hot streak<\/a> of ousting incumbents in safe-blue districts.<\/p>\n<p>Thanedar\u2019s 13th District was a top priority for groups like Justice Democrats that are committed to primarying incumbent members that they believe aren\u2019t in line with the areas they represent. Justice Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/28\/justice-democrats-launch-new-primary-challenge-00309380\" target=\"_blank\">helped recruit McKinney into the race<\/a> and spent nearly $1 million on his behalf, making his campaign one of its biggest targets this cycle.<\/p>\n<p>McKinney, a state representative, had secured the backing of a number of progressive House Democrats, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/27\/congress\/congressional-black-caucus-endorsments-detroit-01012773\" target=\"_blank\">some members of the Congressional Black Caucus<\/a> who bucked party leadership, which was standing behind Thanedar in the heavily Black Detroit-based district.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Thanedar\u2019s colleagues were also frustrated by his efforts to force a vote on impeaching President Donald Trump last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/14\/congress\/thanedar-pulls-impeachment-vote-00350361\" target=\"_blank\">an effort he ultimately backed away from<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The district is a safe seat for Democrats, and McKinney is expected to win easily in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar lost his primary to democratic socialist Donavan McKinney on Wednesday \u2014 the latest victory for progressives who\u2019ve been on a hot streak of ousting incumbents in safe-blue districts. Thanedar\u2019s 13th District was a top priority for groups like Justice Democrats that are committed to primarying incumbent members that they believe aren\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}