Michigan will face a competitive primary and fierce career for the open seat of the Battleground state in 2026.
Three important Democrats have already participated in the contest, while the Republicans revoke the seat, which will be unemployed by the retired senator Gary Peters, D-Mich.
The state of Battleground had mixed results for both matches in 2024, with President Donald Trump obtaining a victory in the presidential race and the moment at the time. Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, who prevails in the Senate race. Democrats hope to keep the seat open in their hands, while Republicans hope to turn it and add their majority in the Senate.
Representative Haley Stevens speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill, on February 6, 2025, in Washington.
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The representative Haley Stevens, a Democrat who represents District 11 of Michigan, revealed on Tuesday that he will apply for the Senate, with an announcement focused on the automotive industry of the State and how it can be affected by the tariffs imposed by the White House.
“Growing up in Michigan meant being surrounded by innovation, ingenuity and pride in hard work. And our farmers to our nurses to our manufacturers, Michigan has the best workers in the world,” Stevens said, “Stevens said. In an advertisement video Posted in social networks on Tuesday.
“But Donald Trump has a very different plan for Michigan,” he added.
“His chaos and his reckless tariffs are putting tens of thousands of Michigan jobs at risk,” he said, adding that the costs are increasing, “but everything we are getting is more chaos. What the hell are they doing?”
Stevens, first chosen for the Chamber in 2018, is a member of the Committee on Education and Labor Force of the House of Representatives and the Committee of Science, Space and Technology of the House of Representatives. He also served as Chief of Cabinet of the Presidential Task Force in the automural industry during the Obama administration.
In 2022, he suffered a competitive member primary for a member against the then repeated. Andy Levin, although it was reinforced by the external support of Pro-Israel groups. (The relationship between the United States and Israel is a hot problem in Michigan and became a wedge problem during the 2024 elections).
It is scheduled to face a competitive Democratic primary, which includes two other high profile figures. (A key name was already taken from the dispute: former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg ruled out an offer from the Senate in March).
Abdul El-Sayed, the former director of the department of Wayne, Michigan, of Department of Health and former candidate for governor of Michigan, announced Thursday that he will apply for the position, and scored a rapid support of Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT.
“I am running through the United States Senate because in the state that built the ‘American dream’, it shouldn’t be so difficult to overcome,” said El-Sayed In an advertisement video That opened with an old fictitious cartoon that spoke of his background.
“We have to defend against Trump and [Elon] Musk with much more than paper palettes and broken promises. … The disease is the corruption of our policy by billionaires and corporations, while the workers who built this country are forgotten, “he added in the announcement of clips that seem to be of a podcast recording.
The former Health Director of Wayne County, Abdul El-Sayed, speaks with a “hands outside” protest at Michigan’s capitol in Lansing, Michigan, on April 5, 2025.
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Sanders, who has received a renewed national attention in recent months, since it attracts crowds in his national speech “to fight the oligarchy”, Backed the-Sayed The same day.
At the beginning of April, the Senator of the State of Michigan, Mallory McMorrow, announced his own Senate offer.
In a Advertisement videothat he opened with a montage of news clips about Trump and a clip of the viral moment of Musk in February holding a chainsier, McMorrow said: “There are moments that will break it. This is not that moment. This moment will challenge us, it will try us, and if everything feels like too much? That is plan. Do you want you to feel without power. But you are not helpless.”
Michigan’s state senator, Mallory McMorroow, speaks at the National Democratic Convention, August 19, 2024, in Chicago.
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McMorrow entered the National Care Center after being accused of founding the objective of “preparing and sexualizing the children of Kindergarten” in a 2022 fund collection email sent by a state senator partner. She returned to a viral floor speech, saying: “I am the greatest threat to her hollow and hateful scheme.”
In his announcement video, McMorroow framed the Trump administration as creating a fearful moment in time and said that new leaders are needed, echoing a debate within the Democratic Party about whether it needs a generational change in the upper part of the party.
“At this time, there is a lot of fear, anger and uncertainty about people in power that frankly do not have business there. So you know what they will not fix? The same Washington shit,” McMorrow said, “we need new leaders because the same people in DC who put us in this disaster will not be the ones that will take us out.”
On the Republican side, primary is still taking shape, but an important name has entered the fray.
Former representative Mike Rogers, who ran for the Senate in Michigan in 2024 and lost to Slotkin, announced in mid -April that he would enter the race.
“The lessons I learned working in a factory floor, serving as an officer in the United States Army, and then as a federal agent that protects our communities, demolishing through drug traffickers and gangsters, taught me about the sand and sacrifice,” Rogers said In an advertisement video.
“I will be with President Trump,” he added. “And we will fulfill the mandate that the American people give it … for me, America and Michigan will always be first.”
Michigan’s representative, Mike Rogers, is interviewed in Detroit on October 12, 2010.
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Rogers also talked about reducing costs and prices while bringing Michigan manufacturing jobs.
“I guarantee that we will protect Social Security for our elders,” Rogers added.
In particular, Rogers has received some key support from the Republicans of the establishment, despite the fact that the main field is not completely established. In a couple of statements published through the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate Republican campaign arm, the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., and Senator Tim Scott, RS.C., who is president of the NRSC, backed Rogers.
