After Monday’s PBS News Hour dealt with breaking news about the red-flag festooned Democrat Graham Platner suspending his campaign for U.S. Senate in Maine (he would later drop out), guests Tamara Keith of NPR and Carrie Dann representing the Cook Political Report in place of Cook’s usual News Hour representative Amy Walter, who was out for the week. Dann, who previously reported from D.C. for NBC News, proved more partisan than Walter, chirpily optimistic on the prospects of radical Abdul el-Sayed, who’s running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: Meanwhile, I know you're also tracking another big race in Michigan. This is the Democratic Senate primary race, a big moment this weekend when one of the candidates, Mallory McMorrow, decided to drop out. The race is now down to two people. There's a centrist candidate in Haley Stevens, and a progressive candidate in Abdul El-Sayed…. Dann answered Nawaz’s question about what the race revealed “about the direction of the Democratic Party” by pushing El-Sayed as a normal guy with “progressive ideas.” Carrie Dann of the Cook Political Report goes surprisingly partisan on the PBS News Hour for radical Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed: "He does these advertisements where he's waterskiing. I mean, he looks like a normal guy... that may be appealing to people." pic.twitter.com/pu8BpGPB0R — Clay Waters