Elections

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.

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.

Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters said on this week's edition of the MIRS Monday podcast that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed would have cheered the terrorists during the Sept. 11 attacks along with controversial internet personality Hasan Piker.

Michigan’s U.S. Senate race remains narrowly divided, with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed holding a two-point edge over Republican Mike Rogers in new InsiderAdvantage polling that also shows close contests in Alaska and Kansas.

Republican gubernatorial nominee John James (R-Shelby Township) today called for excluding transgender girls from female sports teams and removing gender identity discussions from classrooms, appearing alongside two plaintiffs challenging school policies and practices.

Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News, says Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers privately met with him and roughly 15 to 20 Arab American community members during his 2024 Senate campaign — then asked them not to tell the media about the meeting because some Republican voters would not support him if they knew he had met with Arabs or Muslim organizations.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers greeted roughly 300 supporters inside an equestrian barn in Highland tonight, defining his campaign as one rooted in "faith, family, and freedom" while casting Democratic opponent Abdul El-Sayed as a socialist whose policies threaten democratic values.

With 25 days until Election Day, the number of House races the caucuses are playing in is shrinking, not expanding.

Republican Mike Rogers repeatedly tried to draw a line tonight between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda, escalating the attack until El-Sayed, as Rogers began talking about someone in his family, cut him off.

The Michigan Victory Fund (MVF), the political action committee for the Republican Governors Association (RGA), has significantly scaled back its media spending on John James (R-Shelby Township), a notable development that is leaving the Republican nominee with no substantial paid media presence four weeks before the general election.

Michigan voters have returned 30% more absentee ballots than at the same point before the 2022 general election, although Practical Political Data’s Mark Grebner cautioned that automatic ballot mailings help explain the increase.

Republican Secretary of State nominee Anthony Forlini says college students should vote in their hometowns, but his party’s youth chair encourages them to register near campus when doing so could help Republicans win.

Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers will share the same stage for the first time at Thursday's debate, less than four weeks before voters decide who will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Oakland County).

Putting money on an election could change more than a trader’s bank balance. It could influence whether someone votes, whom they support and how they react when their candidate loses, according to researchers watching the growth of election prediction markets.

The national political environment has Democrats expanding their congressional battlefield into territory that, in most election cycles, would be considered a reach.

To be sure, Nick Rowe is not a household name, but if he somehow defeats the GOP House Speaker next month, that would dramatically change overnight. He thinks he can do it.

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, as the cliché goes, what does U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers’ AI-generated comic-like strip showing him as “Buff Mike” say?

U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte) told MIRS today that he has never faced an opponent as starkly opposed to his vision as his current campaign adversary, and that voters in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District are facing a choice unlike any in recent memory.

The Citizens Research Council of Michigan released a report today analyzing the Michiganders for Money Out of Politics (MMOP) ballot initiative and found it could impact political advertising, but the money issue was questionable.