Michigan Representative Haley Stevens, a Democrat who narrowly lost her party’s Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed in August, endorsed Republican nominee Mike Rogers on Sunday, two days before the November 3 election in a race that could help decide control of the Senate. The endorsement, made at a church in Detroit where Stevens appeared alongside Rogers, breaks with the Democratic nominee and with the party’s standard-bearers in the state.
“I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today,” Stevens said in a post on social media. She told reporters outside the church: “I’m sorry people are upset,” and she described herself as “still a very proud Democrat.”
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Stevens said in a video that El-Sayed had told her she was no longer welcome on his campaign. She had been due to attend a church event in Detroit alongside El-Sayed and Representative Jim Clyburn, but she said the arrangement fell apart after the El-Sayed campaign asked her not to attend its events in the final days of the race.
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Stevens had earlier demanded that El-Sayed condemn an advertisement from an independent left-wing group, Rebellion PAC, which she described as antisemitic, and that he apologise for remarks linking US military aid to Israel with the cost of living in Michigan. In a statement issued before her endorsement, she wrote that El-Sayed “can begin by getting Israel out of his explanation for everything Michigan cannot afford.” She also said she did “not stand with Hasan Piker,” a streamer with whom El-Sayed campaigned during the primary.
El-Sayed had responded that Stevens “seems intent on relitigating a primary that ended three months ago.” On Saturday, he said he did not agree with the outside advertisement’s contents, a statement that Stevens publicly welcomed.
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