Michigan Senate Race Shifts as Democratic Lawmaker Backs GOP Candidate
Haley Stevens' surprising endorsement of Mike Rogers highlights concerns over anti‑Israel and anti‑Black rhetoric in the opposing campaign, and the GOP touts it as a win with minority voters.
Republican Senate hopeful Mike Rogers (f1) has secured an unlikely endorsement from Democratic Representative Haley Stevens (f2), who switched her support to him in Michigan's race (f4), a move that many see as a rebuke to the current political establishment.
Stevens said her backing of the GOP candidate boiled down to a rejection of the anti‑Israel and anti‑Black rhetoric from Abdul El‑Sayed's campaign (f5, f6), and the endorsement was announced before Election Day, according to Fox News (f7).
Rogers' campaign has touted the endorsement as a breakthrough with Black and Jewish voters (f3, f8), framing it as evidence that the GOP can appeal beyond its traditional base.
Original reporting
Fox News
'Big difference': Dem's last-minute endorsement gives GOP new hope in crucial Senate battle
Michigan Republican Mike Rogers' campaign touted Haley Stevens' endorsement as a breakthrough with Black and Jewish voters before Election Day.
Read the original →The Washington Times
Democrat Haley Stevens endorsement switch based on El-Sayed's anti-Israel, anti-Black rhetoric
Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens said her shock endorsement of the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan boiled down to a rejection of the anti-Israel and anti-Black rhetoric from Abdul El-Sayed's campaign.
Read the original →The Hill
A lot of people are ‘feeling betrayed’ by Stevens’s reversal: Jamie Harrison
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison said people are “feeling betrayed” by Rep. Haley Stevens’s (D-Mich.) last-minute decision to endorse former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race. “I believe when you give your word, you keep it,” Harrison said during an appearance on The Hill’s broadcasting partner NewsNation. “I think…
Read the original →The Guardian
What made Haley Stevens turn on el-Sayed? | Judith Levine
Facts this version was allowed to use
- Mike Rogers is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
- Haley Stevens is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan.
- Mike Rogers' campaign touted Haley Stevens' endorsement.
- Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers and switched her endorsement to him in the U.S. Senate race in Michigan.
- Haley Stevens said her endorsement of the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan "boiled down to a rejection of the anti-Israel and anti-Black rhetoric from Abdul El-Sayed's campaign."
- Abdul El-Sayed is a political figure whose campaign was described by Haley Stevens as having anti-Israel and anti-Black rhetoric.
- Haley Stevens' endorsement of Mike Rogers came before Election Day, according to Fox News.
- Fox News reported that Mike Rogers' campaign described Haley Stevens' endorsement as a breakthrough with Black and Jewish voters.
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