El-Sayed asks fellow Democrat Stevens not to attend final campaign events

Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, has told his former primary opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, not to attend any of his remaining campaign events before Tuesday's general election, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Politico first reported the request. The split surfaces in the closing days of a heavily contested race in which Republican nominee Mike Rogers is trying to win over centrist Democrats.

The two clashed Friday, ahead of a Sunday appearance at a Detroit church with Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina that Stevens had said she would attend. El-Sayed's campaign announcement of that event left her out even before the request. In a statement, El-Sayed accused Stevens of dragging up a primary that concluded three months earlier.

Stevens had earlier demanded an apology over his remark tying Israel to Michigan's affordability problems. She also asked him to denounce an ad by Rebellion PAC that she called antisemitic, which his campaign says it has no connection to, and to pull his own ad featuring Tucker Carlson. Separately, her fiancé, Jason Turkish, told The Detroit News he will vote for Rogers, while Stevens said she will back El-Sayed.

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