Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers after Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill.
Stevens endorsed Rogers after attending a Detroit church service with him. The remarkable show of support for Donald Trump’s backed candidate in the tightly contested race comes after she was uninvited to a joint event the same day with El-Sayed, who defeated the congresswoman by a slim margin in the August primary.
“Our Democratic nominee for Senate said I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away,” Stevens said video announcing the endorsement. “And he’s right. And that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.”
When I stopped laughing because El-Sayed has inadvertently flushed out another pretender just by being himself, I realized I wasn’t surprised.
Stevens’ fiance has been stumping for Mike Rogers all along, and while people of differing politics can and do get married, it takes a LOT of passion to go out and actually work for a candidate, which he did and still is. For me, it’s not so much a red flag as a question mark.
But then there was the ad that attacked her own side, and its follow-up of her desperately trying to make something out of nothing, low-key harassing El-Sayed until he simply disinvited her to his upcoming event.
And now, the day of his event and standing outside, she’s thrown off her cloak and shown her real allegiance.
If you look at what she has said and what she has brought, it’s pretty clear she was only ever a Republican in a Dem suit anyway.
Yeah, no. That’s a very fact neutral, implied “both sides” way of saying she kept trying to throw El-Sayed off his game until he threw her out, and now she’s just attacking openly. Not a lot has really changed here.
Now I’m wondering how much cash I’d bet on finding out her campaign was planned to this end all along: to either win and then switch sides, or to lose explosively before the election in such a way that it cratered her opponent’s chances.
In the end it doesn’t look like she’s succeeded in anything at all, beyond showing her own true colors.
This kind of political fraud / betrayal should count as some form of treason.
her fiance is a staunch zionist republican, no doubt he influenced ehr too. and her sudden coffers, increased 35-70mil from aipac alone.