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5 states hold polls on Tuesday. Here's what to know

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Five states hold primaries Tuesday, with competitive House and Senate races that could ultimately decide control of Congress next year.

The Michigan Senate race has become a referendum on the Democratic Party's identity and the kind of candidate it should be nominating: a centrist or someone more left leaning.

Abdul El-Sayed, a former Detroit public health official who ran an unsuccessful bid for governor in 2018, currently holds a double-digit lead against Stevens, a four-term congresswoman.

Stevens has outspent El-Sayed on the airwaves by at least eight times, according to AdImpact, including groups aligned with AIPAC, whose involvement El-Sayed has criticized.

If the Democrats want to win back the Senate, they have to hold on to the seat in Michigan.

Tuesday's margins and turnout will offer the first signals about Democratic and Republican enthusiasm heading into November.