Gretchen Haley!

ChatGPT is amazing. The race now has its biggest backer for the establishment.

The governor of Michigan has endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) weeks before the primary. Stevens' opponent dismiss the endorsement. 

Abdul El-Sayed said once again these endorsements do not equal votes. Regardless of who wins this, he will support the nominee. He said that big money influence as well as distractions are contributing to Stevens sudden rise in polls. He said basically the fight should be against President Donald J. Trump and Mike Rogers.

Stevens has been running a dirty campaign and it's wreaks of desperation.

Gretchen Whitmer posted on Friday her endorsement and campaigned with Stevens and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), who endorsed this week.

Clyburn’s comment about the racial makeup of El-Sayed’s crowd was immediately condemned by progressive organizers and El-Sayed's supporters, who criticized it as exclusionary and a divisive attempt to alienate the coalition of Arab American, progressive, and young voters in Michigan.

I am absolutely thrilled to have Gov @GretchenWhitmer’s endorsement for U.S. Senate. She is a champion for our state, she understands the stakes of this race and why it’s so important we elect the strongest Dem in this primary, and she gets stuff done for Michigan. Let’s go win! pic.twitter.com/NfFtlD2IWu

— Haley Stevens (@HaleyforMI) July 24, 2026

As governor, I want the best for every Michigander. That’s why I’m endorsing Haley Stevens for the U.S. Senate.

Haley knows how to get things done for Michigan, and she’ll fight to protect our state from rising costs and the economic chaos coming out of Washington D.C.

I hope… pic.twitter.com/q2u1iM8q40

— Gretchen Whitmer (@gretchenwhitmer) July 24, 2026

El-Sayed on the whitmer endorsement

“The corporate establishment has closed ranks and made their pick — now, Michigan voters will get to make theirs” pic.twitter.com/EUp2llxhPa

— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) July 24, 2026

if you live in michigan and are wondering who to vote for, i think this should give you clarity https://t.co/mPz5kIxNaz

— matt bernstein (@mattxiv) July 25, 2026

Both Gretchen Whitmer and Haley Stevens have faced Republicans in general elections in Michigan and defeated them.
AES has never won a primary or a general. People who are cocksure about this race may want to listen to Whitmer.

— Neera Tanden🌻 (@neeratanden) July 24, 2026

Actually I think this photo of Gretchen Whitmer is one of the single most powerful symbolic depictions of the contemporary Democratic Party leadership.
"decking yourself out in blue as if you're different but cooperating with Trump while pretending not to" says it all pic.twitter.com/RzmLgzFadS

— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) July 25, 2026

I believe the internal pols for his Black support is beyond low because everything is BLACK all of a sudden... https://t.co/Kj0m1LkjeB

— 👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) July 24, 2026

The Democratic leader who repeatedly cucked herself to Trump is endorsing Haley Stevens, another Democrat who will cuck herself to Trump (and Israel) pic.twitter.com/OYWspkJttR

— Secular Talk (KyleKulinskiShow@bsky.social) (@KyleKulinski) July 24, 2026

This is just racism https://t.co/MK6fJ22pGj

— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) July 25, 2026

Fun Fact: This Anti-Haley ad was shot in Angie Smith's Yard in 2022, because she was deeply anti-Haley and was supporting Andy Levin.

Just felt this was important. https://t.co/ckaN0a1fnF

— Mikal Goodman (@mikalgoodman.bsky.social) (@MikalGoodmanMI) July 24, 2026

I think dismissing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as "the corporate establishment closing ranks" because she's endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens is a very good example of why so many of us have been more than a little reluctant to consider supporting Dr. El-Sayed's campaign.

— Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) July 24, 2026

an uncomfortable truth that absolutely nobody wants to touch with a ten foot pole is that a lot of black americans are just as bigoted as white americans and would be republicans if the republican party wasn’t so anti-black https://t.co/2OlYj0kI6P

— maybe: diane (@dianelyssa) July 24, 2026

Omg he literally did blame Black voters. I thought ppl reposting this were exaggerating.

The entitlement the Democratic Party has is stunning. pic.twitter.com/I97sYWmqhW

— B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC (@_iamblakeley) July 25, 2026

Blocking 2 women in hijabs from attending a Kamala Harris rally in 2024

Harris refusing to meet with Muslim and Arab Americans in Dearborn

Dems forbidding an Arab/Muslim American from addressing the convention

And now this....

The Democratic party has an Islamophobia problem https://t.co/UnlLCWhA4a

— Prof Zenkus (@anthonyzenkus) July 25, 2026

El-Sayed: We got potholes that need filling in Michigan. Eight years later, still need to be filled in Michigan. pic.twitter.com/IUH4Qh0DzE

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 25, 2026

So on one side we have a Ph.D. MD who left a cushy job at Columbia to rebuild Detroit's public heath system & erase medical debt for people struggling, who wants Medicare for All & to get corporations out of politics, who is endorsed by:
Warren
AOC
Sanders
Van Hollen
Khanna… pic.twitter.com/TMYXIzm64f

— Rebekah Jones (@GeoRebekah) July 25, 2026

The reaction of the DSA/Progressives to this is comical, attacking Whitmer and saying the party is now all in for @HaleyforMI.

Are they openly acknowledging that Bernie Sanders and AOC don't represent the party? OK, finally we agree.

Michigan, if you turn out, Haley wins!!! https://t.co/YPB4pkDTVf

— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) July 25, 2026

Sam: "When I talk to my peers, seems like a lot of people are supporting Haley's opponent."
Clyburn: "That's great, that's our future…a lot of old people, too." https://t.co/wRrGLpfori

— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) July 25, 2026

A gift for the El-Sayed campaign as recent Clyburn endorsee Haley Stevens will inevitably be asked about thishttps://t.co/bS4WxXoqZg

— Nick Field (@nick_field90) July 25, 2026

For all of the white leftists on here shrieking and howling about how this black Haley Stevens supporter is a "racist" or whatever because she's attempting to make an argument for greater inclusivity within her party, let's just quickly rehash what happened at Michigan's… https://t.co/TodaKcpllP

— Jesse Arm (@Jesse_Leg) July 25, 2026

Detroit’s Yvonne Lewis rejects the narrative that Black voters are largely siding with Haley Stevens.

“I don't care what the media, what the TV says about Haley... My neighbors are voting for Abdul El-Sayed.” pic.twitter.com/WWdRHqR0KC

— Sam Robinson (@samueljrob) July 25, 2026

I’m so grateful to have my friend, AG Dana Nessel, by my side as we keep up the good fight! pic.twitter.com/zOXyUFOxZA

— Haley Stevens (@HaleyforMI) July 25, 2026

https://t.co/dLGeq73Q09 pic.twitter.com/Chc6trQ5ZA

— Elijah Manley (@iElijahManley) July 24, 2026

“Just like me, Haley will do whatever it takes to get things done for the people of Michigan, and we need her now more than ever,” Whitmer said in a video posted to X.

The congresswoman, who recently went viral for her quirky “stick it to them” slogan, celebrated the endorsement, calling Whitmer “a champion for our state” who understands “the stakes of this race.”

Following the high-profile endorsement, Stevens’s odds of winning the Democratic primary on prediction market Polymarket rose from 21% to 36%.

A lot of dog whistle came through also.

Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) said if El-Sayed is the nominee, she will not support him. She claims that his treatment of women is one of the reasons. Based on criticisms of policies, Scholten, a fierce supporter of Israel decided to make it about "women" instead of policies.

Smith, a school council member who endorsed Stevens made a remark about El-Sayed being one of those people.

When it comes to Israel, Democrat Hillary Scholten and Republican John James are bipartisan.

In a viral video circulating on social media, Farmington school board member Smith explained why she backs Stevens over El-Sayed.

“We need someone that can represent all of us, not just one race, but all races,” Smith said at a campaign event. “I am supporting Haley Stevens because she’s that candidate.”

The individual behind the camera pressed Smith, who was first elected to the school board in 2016, for clarification.

“When you say you know not just for one, what do you mean by that?” he asked.

Smith, a single mother of three daughters, doubled down.

“The other candidate seems to be … doesn’t work a room. You have to know how to work the room. Don’t come out speaking only Arabic. Don’t come out with your Arabic music on,” Smith said. “Represent everyone.”

“You know, I’m the mother of a lesbian. I’m Puerto Rican and Cherokee, with a grandfather that was a white man from Ireland. Represent us all. Don’t just represent one ethnicity or one race,” she added.

Whitmer faced criticism for allowing data centers to swamp the lower peninsula, her refusal to fight harder against Trump and the iconic image of her hiding behind the binder.

The Stevens campaign sent out an email styled exactly like an official "Abdul for Senate" communication. The email featured a deceptive headline declaring, "ENDORSEMENT ALERT: Mike Rogers Endorses Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic US Senate Primary."

El-Sayed’s campaign sharply condemned the stunt, calling it an underhanded "lie unbefitting of a congresswoman". They linked the fake press release to a broader pattern of deceptive advertising, highlighting a pro-Stevens Super PAC ad that uses old footage to heavily imply former president Barack Obama endorsed her current Senate bid, when he has not.

The email was not an actual endorsement from Republican candidate Mike Rogers. Instead, it weaponized leaked audio from a private call where Rogers stated he hoped to face El-Sayed in the general election because he believed the progressive would be easier to defeat. The Stevens campaign used the fake headline to frame Rogers' strategic preference as a literal endorsement.