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Left-wing Democrats are on a winning run - but can they lure back crucial swing voters?

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On a Saturday evening in Michigan, the skies still hazy from drifting Canadian wildfire smoke, hundreds of voters packed into Detroit’s opulent 104-year-old Opera House, rising from their seats to cheer loudly as Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took the stage. The two represent the divisions within the Democratic Party as it seeks to take back control of Congress. On one side is the centrist establishment, backed by traditional power players. On the other is the left wing of the party. El-Sayed told the BBC that if the Democratic Party had more concerns for everyday people, 'they’d be fighting on the same policies I’m fighting for.' 'It’s already frayed,' said Larry Sabato of UVA Center for Politics. 'If they don’t do the repair job they need to do and quickly, certainly through 2028, then they’re going to have to get used to losing.'