Blog categorized as State Politics

While the number of state House incumbent upsets during both primaries and general elections has varied across election cycles, generally no more than six incumbents have been unseated per election cycle, a MIRS analysis of election day results from 2022 back to 1998 found.

House Democrats and their allies have either spent or reserved $17.3 million in television and digital spending for the 2023-24 campaign cycle, while House Republicans have spent or reserved $205,074, based on numbers collected by AdImpact and compiled by MIRS.

Republican MI-8 candidate Mary Draves is among six female Republican candidates and nine incumbents in competitive seats to pick up the endorsement of the Winning For Women political action committee

The Grand New Party (GNP) PAC and Michigan Republican Party State Committee Member Jon Rocha claim they want to RINO hunt Rep. Gina Johnsen (R-Lake Odessa) out of office. For her part, Johnsen said Rocha and the GNP are "desperate" considering her conservative voting record on policy.

Matt DePerno, the Republicans’ 2022 Attorney General nominee, confirmed he’s interested in the GOP’s Michigan Supreme Court nomination in the four-year race against incumbent Justice Kyra Bolden.