WILLIAMSTON, Mich. — Kent Tisdale spent most of his life voting for Republicans before he started voting for Democrats, even backing Donald Trump in 2016. The 70-year-old retiree can even remember that his biggest concern backing Mitt Romney in 2012 was that the GOP presidential nominee wasn’t conservative enough.
He is now seriously considering supporting Abdul El-Sayed in Tuesday’s Senate Democratic primary.
Tisdale, now a member of his local Indivisible chapter, said Trump’s presidency and the deluge of money in politics led him to El-Sayed, whose passion has impressed him even if the candidate’s politics are further left than he’d like.