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Jalal Abdallah, the Dearborn attorney expected to win the 15th House District seat next week, acknowledged today that he failed to pay clients the full amount of their settlements.

Seven of the last eight U.S. Senate polls have shown the race between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers to be within the margin of error. If this holds up, the four third-party candidates (Green Party, Libertarian, Natural Law and U.S. Taxpayers Party) may have an impact on who ultimately wins.

Republican John James is receiving a significant final-week advertising boost, narrowing what had been a substantial television-spending advantage for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson. However, Democrats are sounding the alarm that Republicans are not following the rules.

A conservative-backed super PAC is promoting a Green Party alternative to Democrat Sean McCann (D-Kalamazoo) in Michigan's 4th Congressional District, as McCann attempts to unseat U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Zeeland) in one of the state's most competitive seats.

Two months after the Michigan Democrats’ state nominating convention left questions about party unity when the top-ticket candidates did not all share a stage, the nominees for governor, U.S. Senate, attorney general and Secretary of State stood hand-in-hand with former President Barack Obama Saturday as the campaign entered its final 10 days.

President Donald Trump brought the father of one of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93, a flight hijacked during the 9/11 terrorism attacks, on stage with him today to criticize Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

Fresh off the tour bus in East Lansing to begin a week-long sojourn across the state to drum up votes, you have to wonder how many questions Jocelyn Benson has tackled since getting into this race for governor?

Since 2019, the Michigan Legislature has averaged 73 active session days a year, nearly 30% fewer than it did during the more than five decades of the state's full-time legislative era (1965-2018), a MIRS review of nearly 80 years of House and Senate Journal records found.

A political action committee (PAC) that openly promotes itself as attempting to cost Republicans control of the U.S. Senate by promoting Libertarian and other conservative third-party candidates has produced 20 advertisements, commercials and songs for Michigan’s race, including an AI-crafted music video promoting U.S. Taxpayers Party candidate Tim Long.

Less than two weeks left until the General Election and the negative ads are running full blast in the last remaining competitive state Senate races that will determine whether Republicans can manage a 19-19 split or if Democrats can grow their majority to 22-16.

Michigan residents are more aware of data centers and more likely to oppose one being built in their community than Americans nationally, according to Michigan State University survey findings presented Tuesday.

An outfit calling itself “Wedgewood Polls” admitted today that its results were mostly fabricated, prompting former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow to describe how a June release from Wedgewood placing her at 9% damaged fundraising, devastated volunteers and intensified pressure to leave the race.

Former gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan advised residents against putting him down as a write-in candidate, saying, "People ought not to waste their vote voting for me." He also doesn't feel like he needs to make any endorsements ahead of Nov. 3.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) and three state Democratic lawmakers warned that rhetoric from Washington and plans to send Justice Department election watchers are fueling fears among Michigan voters about whether their ballots will count or be challenged Nov. 3.

Rep. Mai Xiong (D-Warren) said she will push for a House oversight hearing next term into whether a Detroit gas-card giveaway by Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers’ wife violated Michigan election law.

MIRS has learned legislation dealing with data centers or mandatory nurse overtime could be among the items considered when the House is scheduled to return Wednesday, though at this point both remain possibilities rather than firm plans.

Michigan’s Democratic nominees for U.S. Senate and three competitive congressional seats reported a combined $37.2 million in third-quarter receipts, more than twice the $17.46 million reported by their Republican opponents. A spreadsheet with the totals can be found here.

Vice President JD Vance called Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed “a little weasel” today while urging voters in Republican-leaning Monroe County to send Mike Rogers to Washington.

If the majority of the 203 political junkies who filled out the MIRS Master Prognosticator contest are correct, the Democrats will retain control of all four statewide constitutional offices, Abdul El-Sayed will be Michigan's next U.S. Senator, Democrats will pick up one state Senate seat and Republicans will narrowly retain control of the House, 56-54.

Lawmakers managed to spend nearly four hours dissecting Michigan's ballot petition process Wednesday, ultimately leaving some to question who has the authority to promulgate rules for the state's random sampling of ballot petition signatures.