The bitter personal feud that could imperil a key Senate race for Democrats
Former Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican from Michigan and US Senate candidate, and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), speak to members of the media following a service at Perfecting Church in Detroit, Michigan, on November 1, 2026. | Emily Elconin/Bloomberg via Getty Images Democrats in Michigan spent the weekend before Election Day angrily relitigating their Senate primary from months earlier after a defeated candidate, Rep. Haley Stevens, took back her endorsement of Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed — and backed the Republican instead. Key takeaways Rep. Haley Stevens had previously endorsed her Senate primary rival, Abdul El-Sayed, in his general election contest against Republican Mike Rogers, but she switched over to Rogers’s camp on Sunday. Stevens has cited comments Abdul El-Sayed made about Israel, and especially an ad from a PAC supporting El-Sayed that she viewed as antisemitic, in explaining her shift. Democrats, including many longtime Stevens supporters and staffers, near-unanimously denounced her for endorsing Rogers, often in harsh personal terms. The hope among Democrats is that this is essentially a personal feud and it won’t change many voters’ minds. On the surface, the fight gets to the heart of issues that have divided Democrats all year — between the party’s populist left-wing faction and its politically cautious centrists, and between...
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