Michigan’s two major U.S. Senate candidates agree state and federal gasoline taxes should be temporarily suspended with gasoline now $5 a gallon in spots, but they disagree sharply over what is driving prices higher and what else should be done.

A day after Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers used a national convention speech to portray Abdul El-Sayed as sympathetic to extremists, El-Sayed went before a packed Michigan State University ballroom and tried to move the race back to young voters, health care, housing and the cost of living.

Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers used his national convention speech today to portray Democratic opponent Abdul El-Sayed as sympathetic to extremists and hostile to American values, hours before a voice in the convention crowd could be heard yelling “He should be shot” after U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz mentioned El-Sayed by name.

Signs of antisemitism and anti-Muslim rhetoric have sprouted up throughout Michigan's U.S. Senate campaign, but political observers caution against assuming Jewish and Muslim voters will neatly line up behind Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.

Abdul El-Sayed has an old problem.

A disruptor briefly attempted to interfere with an event where Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed was trying to engage with voters Downtown, shouting, "He's an Arab, he don't care about Black folks."

The first MIRS Pundit Monday after the primary election has four Michigan pundits answering the questions front of mind now about who makes the most sense as picks for gubernatorial running mates, among other questions.

In Democrats' final U.S. Senate debate before the Aug. 4 primary, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) and Abdul El-Sayed accused each other of answering to outside forces. Stevens tried linking celebrity ambitions and progressive influencers to El-Sayed. He tagged her with benefiting from large corporations and American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) dollars.

Abdul El-Sayed raised nearly $4.6 million in the second quarter of the year, which sneaks up on the combined $4.8 million raised between U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) and now-suspended candidate State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-Royal Oak), and the nearly $4 million between the three Mike Rogers accounts.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) and Abdul El-Sayed debated at the WOOD TV 8 studio where it turned into a verbal brawl, but both U.S. Senate candidates refused to address the schism in the party.

A Glengariff Group poll released Tuesday found that Democrat Jocelyn Benson is consolidating her base, causing independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan to pull more from the Republicans.

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