US Midterms: Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens Defects From Party
The endorsement capped a public split over Israel and a PAC ad after failed unity talks, with AIPAC spending at least $43 million against El-Sayed.
- On Sunday, Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers for the United States Senate, appearing with him at a Black church service in Detroit after being disinvited from a joint event with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.
- Opposing views on Israel and the war in Gaza had strained the relationship since the August primary, escalating Friday when Stevens demanded El-Sayed condemn a Rebellion PAC advertisement she labeled antisemitic.
- Stevens' fiancé, Jason Turkish, signaled the deepening divide Wednesday by stating he would vote for Rogers, citing concerns regarding El-Sayed's Israel policy, while campaign officials privately signaled Stevens was no longer welcome.
- "Abdul made very clear that I was not welcome in his campaign," Stevens said Sunday, explaining her U-turn after El-Sayed told reporters he did not want her at the event, effectively ending her career as a Democrat.
- Recent polling shows El-Sayed leading Rogers by 11 percentage points among likely Michigan voters, while El-Sayed raised $2.4 million from over 29,000 donors on Sunday despite the internal Democratic infighting.
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This story was originally published by Uncloseted Media. On June 5, Democratic Michigan state representative and then-Senate hopeful Haley Stevens posted to Facebook that “Mike Rogers’ record on LGBTQ+ rights is repulsive. He has no business representing Michiganders.” Fast forward to Sunday: Stevens sent shockwaves across the country when she endorsed Rogers at a press […]
Haley Stevens’s Last-Ditch Defection
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Haley Stevens' heel turn is all about the pro-Israel money
Rep. Haley Stevens’s surprising decision to abandon the Democratic Party and endorse Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate running for Senate in Michigan, was widely interpreted as a slap across the face to Michigan Democrats, who chose Abdul El-Sayed over Stevens to run as their party’s candidate in the general election. Speculation about Stevens’s erratic behavior — endorsing El-Sayed and then shifting her endorsement to Rogers less than 48 ho…
What Pundits Are Saying About Michigan's Political Bombshell
Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens' surprise 11th-hour endorsement of GOP Sen. Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senator race over Abdul El-Sayed has Democrats seeing and Republicans cheering, and some pundits simply scratching their heads. One of her main accusations against El-Sayed is that he hasn't adequately condemned anti-Israeli sentiment among his...
The decision of the Democrat Haley Stevens to support the Republican candidate to the detriment of his own Democratic Party candidate stirred up a true "seism of political beliefs" in the US. The left say that "true extremists are the ones who sabotage Abdul El-Sayed. And conservatives say that the delimitation of El-Sayed is an act of rational courage and ...
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