Democrat Haley Stevens endorses Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers amid rift with Abdul El-Sayed

Updated on: November 1, 2026 / 12:42 PM EST / CBS News

Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Senate candidate Mike Rogers on Sunday amid a rift with Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed that has come front and center in the final sprint to Election Day.

"Our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul, said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away, and he's right," Stevens said in a video posted on social media Sunday. "And that's why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today."

Stevens, who narrowly lost to El-Sayed in Michigan's Democratic primary in August, appeared alongside Rogers at a Detroit church on Sunday.

The development comes after Stevens, who had been heavily supported by the Senate Democrats' campaign arm in the primary and has since said she was supporting the Democratic ticket, called on El-Sayed last week to condemn an outside group's ad linking U.S. military aid to Israel to rising grocery prices, which she characterized as antisemitic. El-Sayed accused Stevens of "relitigating a primary that ended three months ago," although he has also clarified that the ad "was not made by me" and said he disagrees…

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