DETROIT—Republican nominee Mike Rogers has narrowed Michigan’s U.S. Senate race with Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) in a contest that could alter the balance of power in the next Congress.
Rogers has closed the gap in statewide polls to 4 percentage points, down from 6 points a month ago. If successful, he would become the first Republican in 30 years to win a Senate seat in Michigan.
With the Democrats controlling the upper chamber by just one seat, a GOP win in Michigan could shift control of the Senate to the Republican Party after four years of a Democrat majority.
Both sides acknowledge that the election may come down to get-out-the-vote efforts in the closing weeks of the campaign….