Rogers and El-Sayed Make Final Michigan Senate Pitches After Stevens Backs Rogers
Photo: APMichigan Senate nominees Mike Rogers, a Republican, and Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, made their final appeals to voters on Monday, a day before the Tuesday, November 3 election in a race that could decide control of the Senate. The final day followed Sunday's endorsement of Rogers by Haley Stevens, El-Sayed's former primary rival, a move that stunned Democrats and sent El-Sayed and party members scrambling to refocus on Election Day turnout. Rogers rallied in Oakland County. El-Sayed spoke at the Majestic Theater in metro Detroit with Chicago rapper Common, after an earlier rally at a United Auto Workers hall in Flint with Sen. Elissa Slotkin. El-Sayed has so far outpolled Rogers, and a win would make him the first Muslim in the U.S. Senate. In the 7th Congressional District, Republican Rep. Tom Barrett faces William Lawrence, a Sunrise Movement co-founder. The district backed Slotkin in 2022 and flipped to Barrett in 2024.
The right-leaning Washington Free Beacon covers the race as a contest of closing messages. It shows Rogers courting Democrats and independents and praising Stevens, while El-Sayed attacks President Trump and urges Democrats to come home. The Blaze moves away from the campaign and reports on a Muslim commentator and former New York Times op-ed contributor who warned of a "reckoning" over the result, and it describes him as mocked. Left-leaning Slate skips the final rallies and treats the 7th District as a bellwether and a smaller version of the Senate race, with Barrett against Lawrence over data centers, trade wars, Flock cameras, Iran and energy bills. All of them present El-Sayed and Rogers as opponents in a tight race. They differ on whether the story is the candidates' pitches, a pundit's rhetoric, or a House race. AP, in the alternative group, focuses on Democratic worry after the endorsement, and France 24 calls El-Sayed a rising star.
How the sides differ Right sources stress closing pitches and a commentator's 'reckoning' remark; left sources focus on the 7th District as a bellwether; alternative sources cover the defection and polling.
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Slate looks past the Senate candidates to Michigan's 7th District as a bellwether, centering the Barrett–Lawrence House race and local issues such as data centers, trade wars, energy bills and the cost of living.
AP centers on Democrats scrambling to rally voters after the primary rival's endorsement of Rogers; France 24 presents El-Sayed as a rising star who has outpolled Rogers in a closely watched swing-state race.
The Washington Free Beacon reports both candidates' final rallies, quoting Rogers on bipartisan support and El-Sayed on unity. The Blaze highlights a Muslim commentator's 'reckoning' remarks and the prospect of a first Muslim senator.