DETROIT — Standing on the front lawn of a home in a Detroit neighborhood, Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers brought together a group of Democrats who on Thursday said they would vote for the former congressman instead of Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee. The coalition, known as “Democrats for Rogers,” currently consists of a […]
Michigan Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers collected nearly $100,000 from key players in the telecommunications industry while serving in Congress and during his current Senate bid, including from companies whose interests aligned with legislation he introduced on government data sharing, according to federal campaign finance records and his congressional record. Rogers is seeking the […]
In forming opinions about public policy, I always try to look at alternatives, both for and against a proposed course of action. There is one conservative advocate that I read most frequently and that is George Will. Will is the noted Libertarian and conservative author and commentator who has won a Pulitzer Prize, is syndicated […]
U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise linked Iowa Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, the Democrat running for Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, with candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America — though she is not associated with the organization — as he spoke to Republicans in Iowa Wednesday in support of Rep. Zach Nunn’s reelection. Scalise, […]
Abdul El-Sayed has a lot of work on his hands as he marches his U.S. Senate campaign toward the general election, and much of that will center on bridging deep divides held over from his battle against U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, who lost to El-Sayed last week in the Aug. 4 Democratic primary. Michigan Democrats […]
Michigan voters have barely finished choosing their candidates for November, and already one of the oldest labels in American politics is getting another workout. Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in this week’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate offers a timely example. El-Sayed is unapologetically progressive, and voters should scrutinize his proposals, challenge their costs and consequences, and […]
The governor of California came to Oakland County to support a pair of Democratic candidates hoping to flip swing seats in the Michigan House, and also said he plans to meet with progressive U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Monday in an effort to boost the support El-Sayed is receiving from outside of Michigan. “House […]
I’m an American Jew, and my political loyalty is not to Democrats or to Republicans. It is to American democracy. Full stop. That shouldn’t be controversial, but for some people, a Jew saying that their first political loyalty is to American democracy will sound like a statement against Israel. They’ll assume I have rejected my […]
More than 2.5 million voters in Michigan turned out to cast ballots in the Aug. 4 primary election, about half of whom voted in the U.S. Senate primary contest that carried Abdul El-Sayed to victory as the Democratic nominee over U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens of Birmingham. The high voter turnout, the highest for a Michigan […]
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson embraced Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed’s message of affordability during her first campaign stop of the general election. Benson told reporters Wednesday morning that her focus as the party’s nominee for governor is delivering a victory not just for herself, but for the entire ticket of Democrats, who […]
