Michigan Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens announced Sunday that she is endorsing Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over her own party’s nominee, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, days before the midterm election.
“I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today,” Stevens said in a post on X after attending a church service at Perfecting Church in Detroit, where both she and Rogers were present. A congressional reporter for MS NOW, Mychael Schnell, noted on X that the two arrived separately but were both “attending church services” there. Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin later shared a photo of the pair together, posted by Rogers’ campaign.
Stevens lost the Democratic Senate primary to El-Sayed in August. She endorsed him shortly afterward and the two appeared together at a unity breakfast that month, but had not campaigned jointly since.
A Planned Joint Appearance Collapses
Stevens and El-Sayed had been scheduled to campaign together Sunday at a separate get-out-the-vote event at another Detroit church, alongside Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.). It would have marked their first joint public appearance in months.
That plan fell apart after Stevens issued a statement Friday demanding El-Sayed publicly condemn an advertisement from Rebellion PAC, an outside group not affiliated with his campaign, which tied high grocery prices to U.S. aid to Israel. Stevens also criticized El-Sayed’s own past comments on Israel, writing that the ad “did not invent its argument” but instead echoed rhetoric El-Sayed had used on the campaign trail. She said he could begin reducing the influence of money in politics “by getting Israel out of his explanation for everything Michigan cannot afford.”
El-Sayed responded in a statement accusing Stevens of seeming “intent on relitigating a primary that ended three months ago.” His campaign reportedly also told Stevens to stay away.
The Senate race pits Rogers, the Republican nominee, against El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee, with the election now just days away.
