Democrat Mallory Mc Morrow suspends her Michigan Senate campaign and scrambles the pivotal race.
Senate on Sunday, abruptly reshaping the party primary just a month before the election and leaving a two-person contest between moderate Haley Stevens and progressive Abdul El-Sayed. Meanwhile Mallory Mc Morrow announced on Sunday that she is suspending her campaign for Senate, narrowing the Democratic field ahead of the competitive August primary in a contest.
Today, I’m announcing that I’m suspending my campaign for the United States Senate, Mc Morrow said in a video posted to social media on Sunday. "I may be suspending this campaign, but I am not leaving the fight," Mc Morrow wrote in a post on X announcing the decision.
"Throughout this campaign, you showed what it looks like to fight back against a politics that rigs the system against too many of us," El-Sayed wrote, in part, in a reply to the video in which Mc Morrow announced her decision. Both El-Sayed and Stevens praised Mc Morrow in statements issued after she left the race.
Gary Peters’ decision not to seek reelection opened up the race in the Great Lakes State. Haley Stevens and former Michigan health official Abdul El-Sayed have also been vying for the Democratic nomination in a contest that has grown ugly with intraparty fighting in recent months.
Stevens has the support of national Democratic leaders, while El-Sayed has picked up the backing of prominent progressives.
The move marks a major shakeup in what has already been a chaotic Democratic primary in a Trump-won swing state that Democrats likely need to win to retake the Senate. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed El-Sayed in the race, which has emerged as the next battleground over differing visions of the Democratic Party, following insurgent victories in New York and Colorado in recent weeks.
That binary choice will be on full display Tuesday, when Stevens and El-Sayed are set to face off in a televised debate.