Poll: Duggan Pulls From Republicans; Rogers Beats El-Sayed, Ties McMorrow, Stevens

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 05/12/2026) 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.

In the U.S. Senate race, Republican Mike Rogers is leading Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, but the race is a toss-up if Rogers were to face Mallory McMorrow (D-Royal Oak) and Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham).

The April 28-May 1 poll commissioned by the Detroit Regional Chamber asked 600 people over the telephone, found Duggan had gone down five percentage points against Republican John James (R-Shelby Township).

Benson is sitting at the top with 34.2%, James at 29.2% and Duggan at 23%. When put up against Perry Johnson, Benson’s lead increases to eight points. Johnson has 26% and Duggan and Benson remain statistically the same at 23.3% and 34%. The increase happens to the undecided, which goes from 12.5% to 15.3%.

Benson has consolidated the Democrats and gone from 36.7% in February with those leaning Democrat to 63.8% in the May poll. Among independents, she went from 8.8% to 13.5%.

Duggan’s Democratic support went from 49% leaning Dems in February to 17% in May. He also fell among independents, going from 48.2% in February to 38.5% in May. He gained among leaning Republicans, going from 29.2% in February to 34.3% in May.

Gender is the dividing line emerging in the gubernatorial race, with Benson getting 43% support among women and 23.3% among men.

James has 31.7% support among men and Duggan has 29.5%, which puts them splitting men’s votes if the race were held today.

In the February poll, Duggan had 22.8% of the GOP and 29.8% of the Dems, but the May poll indicated Duggan had 24.3% of the GOP and 16.3 % of the Democrats.

It seems to be driven by the approval ratings of President Donald Trump, which dropped from 41.8% approval rating in February to 37.1% in May. Disapproval went up from 53.6% to 56.8%.

Among independents, the approval rating for Trump took a bigger dip, going from 31.6% to 21.9% and the disapproval rating went from 59.7% to 64.6%.

In the U.S. Senate race, the poll pitted Rogers against El-Sayed, Stevens, and McMorrow.

Rogers was at 44.7% against El-Sayed, who sat at 39.8%.

Against Stevens' 41.5%, Rogers was at 43.8%.

McMorrow was at 40.7% to Rogers' 42.8%.

Again, Trump’s job approval rating is breaking the undecided vote for Stevens. The independent vote favored McMorrow.