New Polling After McMorrow’s Exit Shakes Up Michigan Senate Race

When Mallory McMorrow suspended her Senate campaign in Michigan earlier this month, Democrats across the ideological spectrum assumed her departure would benefit Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive favorite who appeared closer to her politically.Less than three weeks before primary day, the first public polling since her exit suggests the opposite may be happening. Two surveys released over the past week have put Rep. Haley Stevens ahead of El-Sayed in the Democratic primary to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, reversing an earlier trend that had shown El-Sayed, a former Detroit health director, with a narrow advantage. While political analysts caution that one round of polling is far from definitive, the results are scrambling expectations around one of the most consequential Sena