Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers on Sunday, a major shakeup in the final stages of a top battleground race that could determine which party controls the Senate.

“Hey, Michigan, as you may have seen, our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul, said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away,” Stevens said in a video.

“And he’s right, and that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today,” she said. “I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign.”

The congresswoman’s announcement marks a whirlwind turnabout from just days ago, when she said she would support her party’s ticket and planned to attend a campaign event on Sunday to support Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

But leading up to the rally, Stevens and El-Sayed released dueling critical public statements, prompting concerns from Democrats that the spat was a distraction from what is widely seen as one of the most competitive Senate races.

Stevens had said that she expected El-Sayed to condemn an ad from an outside group that she said was antisemitic. El-Sayed responded, accusing Stevens of being “intent on relitigating a primary that ended three months ago.”

NBC News reported Saturday that El-Sayed’s campaign had asked Stevens to no longer attend campaign events following the dueling statements.

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[–] 7 points 26 minutes ago

It's made international news. Front page BBC has Hailey Stevens defecting to Rogers above kids being slaughtered by isntrael .

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  • [–] 23 points 1 hour ago* (1 child)

    Liberals 🤝 fascists

    And I don’t even like AES because he’s also an annoying liberal who is constantly lying about everything, he’s just slightly to the left of Stevens.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 hour ago

    Oh hey I’ve never seen this before

    Surely moderate democrats and republicans aren’t teaming up to defeat the progressive

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  • [–] 6 points 51 minutes ago*

    That's such a weird move to pull right after Obama campaigned with El-Sayed. Putting yourself against the only popular centrist democrat in the country can't be a smart career move.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    Mike Rogers comes to her in her dreams.

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    Trump praised Haley Stevens for endorsing Mike Rogers.

    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

    Wow, this is BIG! Congresswoman Haley Stevens, a Highly Respected Democrat, who narrowly lost in the Primary to Abdul Mohamed El-Sayed, and who has been breathlessly wined and dined by the Dumocrats to help in their Michigan Campaign for the United States Senate against Mike Rogers, has just ENDORSED Mike Rogers for Senate! Her following is huge, and the level of respect from the People of Michigan, especially our African American and Jewish populations, is virtually unparalleled. Haley said what few people are willing to say. She showed great and almost unprecedented loyalty to the Great People of Michigan with what she did. It’s a thing called bravery, and few people have it like just displayed by Congresswoman Haley Stevens! President DONALD J. TRUMP

    Nov 01, 2026, 1:38 PM

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117542639036452664

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  • [–] 19 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    My God. Saw a joke about NYT possibly writing articles like “the progressive case for Trump.” if Bernie won the primaries. Now it’s becoming real.

    New type of guy: edgy 4channer going woke after realizing more people are offended at the left.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 hour ago*

    That's not a new guy that's resurrecting past 4channers. There waa definitely bigoty in their pro-lgbt rhetoric, but the only friends I've had that I knew were trans were a couple AOL instant messenger penpals I met over 4chan. I didn't talk much at all about transness with either of them and I'm not sure it corrected any of my own ignorance (one of them I literally can't tell you what their gender was because I think there's a high chance I was assigning "her" the wrong pronouns), but in retrospect 4chan back then was an online community where posters were more comfortable being open about that.

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  • [–] 59 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    Three months ago:

    Friends, after consulting with my fiancé, we are going to let that happen. Sorry for the confusion.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    The primary selected the correct candidate.

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  • [–] [S] 34 points 2 hours ago (6 children)

    Stevens had said that she expected El-Sayed to condemn an ad from an outside group that she said was antisemitic.

    This is referring to an ad produced by Cenk Uygur. Cenk owns a pac called Rebellion PAC. Rebellion PAC is not affiliated with Abdul El Seyed or Hasan Piker (Cenk's Nephew). It would be illegal Abdul El Sayed to be affiliated with Rebellion PAC because of pac regulation laws.

    Cenk was paying for the ad to be played on Michigan television. The ad shows a couple grocery shopping and the woman tells the man to put back groceries because the US government is spending their money on Israel. The ad then says that Mike Rogers wants to give your money to Israel. Haley Stevens said the ad is anti-Semitic.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

    This is the video of the ad. The wife says "You're gonna have to put the eggs back because we have to set the $7 aside for killing Palestinians." "Apparently it's costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza." The husband says "Why the f*** do we have to pay for all of this?"

    https://nitter.click/cenkuygur/status/2113799606299758984

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  • [–] 13 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    Fucking Cenk, bro makes a fire ad and then just decides to sprinkle a lil transphobia on at the end. Like wtf dude come on

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 hour ago

    Yeah the "they/them" line is a fumble but while that line is played, it shows photos of Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, and Itamar Ben-Gvir. So the ad is referring to Israel politicians, not trans people. The ad should have just said "them" and not "they/them".

    The "they/them" line is a satire of a Trump campaign ad. Maybe Cenk was thinking "blame israel, not trans people". I don't know. The ad should have just said "them".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_is_for_they/them

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  • [–] 4 points 49 minutes ago*

    That isn't transphobia. He totally would do that and he's a piece of shit, but it's a flat misreading of the ad to call it transphobic. If I had to assign a position to it, I'd say it's more plausible to call it defensive of trans people as far as repurposing the rhetoric of an actually transphobic ad based on othering trans people and essentially saying "there is a real 'other' that some politicians have a wrongful fealty to, but it's Israel [not some cabal of trans people]".

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  • [–] 11 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    I don't understand how this can be construed as antisemitic? This whole thing is so dumb. I don't give AF about Zionists' religion. I care that my money is letting them bomb and murder babies

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  • [–] 2 points 46 minutes ago

    The immediate line was to call the pointed use of "them" a trope (which is a malicious misreading), but Stevens takes it much farther and says that the premise of connecting funding Israel to the rising cost of living is antisemitic.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 hours ago

    vote blue no matter who! Unless, you know...

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  • [–] 27 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    Her own party's voters already showed her the door, why would they listen to her endorsement?

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  • [–] 3 points 43 minutes ago

    She did still get a meaningful share of the vote. It wasn't inconceivable that she could at least undermine AES's margin of victory, but from what I've seen most Dems were deeply repulsed by her behavior even before she endorsed Rogers. She might still knock off a few percentage points, but the use of that would normally be "See? Progressives are Electoral weak!" and that argument is just transparent nonsense even to a normal dem when she has literally endorsed the Republican. The "but progressives aren't electable" strategy is burning before our eyes in spectacular fashion because of Stevens's incompetence.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 hours ago

    sore-loser but I wanted to call him an antisemite at his unity rally for not liking genocide and he wouldn't let me!

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    And the truth comes out

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  • [–] 24 points 3 hours ago

    She's a fucking loser but hey it's american politics garbage in garbo out.

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