An earthquake rocked Michigan’s Democratic Party 48 hours before polls close on Nov. 3 when the loser of the Democratic Senate primary broke ranks and endorsed Republican Mike Rogers.
As the high-stakes race came down to the wire last weekend, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) stunned Democrats from Lansing to Washington with a 180-degree turn on Nov. 1, endorsing Rogers, whom she had strongly criticized just months prior.
After a contentious Aug. 4 primary battle with progressive populist Abdul El-Sayed, who ultimately won by a 0.9-percentage-point margin, Stevens initially endorsed her left-wing opponent and committed to backing Democrats up and down the ballot across the Great Lakes State, saying that Rogers would “be another rubber stamp for [President] Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda.” …