Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers after Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill.
Stevens endorsed Rogers after attending a Detroit church service with him. The remarkable show of support for Donald Trump’s backed candidate in the tightly contested race comes after she was uninvited to a joint event the same day with El-Sayed, who defeated the congresswoman by a slim margin in the August primary.
“Our Democratic nominee for Senate said I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away,” Stevens said video announcing the endorsement. “And he’s right. And that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.”
That election was held by the DNC under Jamie Harrison.
The chair Buden appointed, and then Harrison appointed Harris as the candidate.
The incoming chair saw that Harrison fucked it up, and said they were going to re run the vote.
Not campaign mind you, the ~400 voting members who had just voted for the chair and Hogg on the same ballot would just re-vote.
There was no reason for anyone to expect the result to change.
Hogg however, refused to sign a piece of paper that would have put him on the new ballot. He just refused to.
That’s what actually happened.
And I can’t think of a reason why Hogg declined to put his name on the ballot, except he didn’t expect to win and didn’t want to win.
Because all he had to do to win again, was put his name on the ballot