Democrat Haley Stevens Endorses Republican Mike Rogers In Midterms Shock

The endorsement sealed her rupture with Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed just days before the high-profile election.

Just days before Michigan’s extremely consequential Senate race, Democratic Representative Haley Stevens switched sides ― officially endorsing Republican Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.

The Democrat told reporters on Sunday she made the endorsement decision that morning, saying she is choosing country over party.

“I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate. I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign. I do not stand with Hasan Piker, who gets trafficked on our college campuses,” Stevens said in a self-recorded video from her car. “What our students see, what our children see and who we are as Michiganders is not hate, and is not what we are getting out from our Democratic nominee right now.”

The endorsement came just after Stevens appeared at a church service with Rogers, on a day she was originally scheduled to appear at a campaign event in Detroit with El-Sayed.

“At the end of the day, I actually don’t think about Haley Stevens,” El-Sayed said at his event alongside Clyburn.

“I’m just going to tell you, this is a state of 10 million people who deserve a lot better from the government,” he told reporters. “I’m a lot more focused on the 9,999,998 that are not the ones you guys are talking about.”

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