Running for office is an expensive endeavor and candidates are forced to seek funding from all sorts of backers. But some fundraising is just plain wrong in today’s climate, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have rounded up, deported and even killed immigrants and protesters. According to The Detroit News , three of the four candidates for the open U.S. Senate seat – Republican Mike Rogers and Democrats Mallory McMorrow and Haley Stevens –received camp

Regardless of who the Democratic Senate candidate ends up being – the slugfests comes to a head in the August 4 primary election – Republicans recognize that Michigan is a state they want to flip if they intend to keep the Senate. To that end, the Senate Leadership Fund, the top Senate GOP super PAC, has already announced they intend to spend an eye-popping $342 million in battleground states this fall – with Michigan, and Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers , earmarked f

The race to be the Democratic Senate candidate heading into November is this close , and which of the three candidates – Oakland County Congresswoman Haley Stevens, Royal Oak state Senator Mallory McMorrow or former Wayne County health chief Abdul El-Sayed – is at the top of the polls depends on which poll is being interpreted. According to a recent poll by Global Strategy Group for the McMorrow campaign in late March, McMorrow now leads, 30 percent over El-Sayed at 25 perc

Democratic Senate candidate Haley Stevens continues to position herself as the moderate, pro-Israel, pro-Jewish constituency candidate in the race even as she gets lambasted for accepting money from the pro-Israel political action committee fund AIPAC, often a bundler of funds from Jewish contributors. Fellow candidate Mallory McMorrow has disavowed accepting AIPAC money, along with any corporate PAC funds, but in the wake of the heinous terrorist attack on West Bloomfield’

Unconventional would be too kind of a word to describe what Republican primary voters have been offered by Congressman John James (R-Macomb County, Rochester, Rochester Hills) as he makes a run for the governor post in the 2026 election. For starters, James has spent the last nine months skipping public appearances at Republican events and GOP candidates forums, starting with the forum of governor candidates last September on Mackinac Island at the Republicans annual gatheri

We’ve said it before, polling with 42-44 undecideds are hazy at best. That said (again), two late March and early April polls show an amazing gain by Bloomfield Hills multi-millionaire Perry Johnson in terms of name identification. As a point of reference, back in February of this year, 1892 Polling firm results (40 percent undecided) had John James at 40 percent and Johnson at four percent. In a more recent polling by the same firm, with 42 percent undecided, James was at