On Monday night’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart took aim at Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens and her 11th-hour switch to endorse Republican Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed ahead of Election Day on Tuesday. Stewart spent much of the segment trying to trace how Stevens’ change of heart could have happened, given that
A public feud between Stevens, a centrist Democrat, and El-Sayed, who represents the party’s left wing, has boiled over in recent days. Stevens gave her endorsement to Rogers just two days before the election – making a surprise appearance alongside the Republican on Sunday. “I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign,” she said in a video
Watching Congresswoman Haley Stevens attempt to explain her 11th-hour endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers over her fellow Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Tuesday’s election to become the next United States Senator from Michigan, my primary feeling was one of relief. Thank God this person didn’t beat El-Sayed in the primary, despite outspending him in a landslide.
A Democrat in Michigan has endorsed the Republican candidate in the state’s closely-fought US Senate contest, as a spat with her own party’s candidate Abdul El-Sayed escalated just days before the vote. Haley Stevens, a former congresswomen who lost out on the Democratic nomination to El-Sayed, made a surprise appearance alongside the Republican candidate Mike
For over a year, both Stevens and El-Sayed have been laying out starkly different visions for Michigan and for the country. El-Sayed, who is 41 years old and the son of Egyptian immigrants, would be the first Muslim senator in the US, if elected. He’s been endorsed by leading left-wing politicians such as Vermont Senator
