Haley Stevens attends church with GOP’s Mike Rogers as Michigan Democrats feud

Days before the general election, Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens showed up at Perfecting Church in Detroit on Sunday, the same service attended by Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, MS NOW reports. The two were seen entering separately. Such a gesture from a sitting member of her party is rare while Democrats are working to keep the seat, and it deepens a rift with Abdul El-Sayed, the candidate who edged her out in August.

The friction began Friday, when Stevens urged El-Sayed to denounce an advertisement from Rebellion PAC, a group with no tie to his campaign, that blamed grocery costs on American aid to Israel. She argued the spot echoed his own campaign rhetoric. El-Sayed replied that she appeared set on refighting a contest decided three months earlier. A Democratic source told MS NOW his team then asked her to skip its remaining events, which scuttled a planned get-out-the-vote appearance with Representative Jim Clyburn.

On Saturday, El-Sayed said he did not make the ad and disagrees with it. Stevens then said, without naming him, that she was glad he rejected what she called a vile ad, and urged people to vote.

Summarized by PolitiKool from MS NOW’s reporting. Read the full story at MS NOW →