Overview
- On Sunday, Representative Haley Stevens withdrew her support for Democrat Abdul El‑Sayed and publicly endorsed Republican Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate contest.
- Stevens’s move produced immediate fallout: her chief of staff resigned and Michigan Democratic chair Curtis Hertel said she is no longer a party member and has signaled a formal exclusion process.
- Senior Democrats including Senate leader Chuck Schumer condemned the action as betrayal and Washington politicians quickly isolated Stevens for breaking with party plans.
- Election analysts including Nate Silver say the endorsement is unlikely to flip the outcome because a large share of Michigan voters cast early ballots and recent polls showed El‑Sayed with a lead.
- Separately, German outlets published about 421,000 AfD emails that party officials confirmed were stolen, and investigators treating the material as authentic say the files trace internal fights and growing accommodation of far‑right figures over years.