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SAUGATUCK, Mich. (AP) -- Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox on Tuesday entered the 2026 governor's race, adding to a growing field of Republicans vying to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
SAUGATUCK, Mich. (AP) -- Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox on Tuesday entered the 2026 governor's race, adding to a growing field of Republicans vying to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers is launching another Republican bid for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, following a narrow loss to Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin last year in a hotly contested open race.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers is launching another Republican bid for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, following a narrow loss to Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin last year in a hotly contested open race.
SAUGATUCK, Mich. (AP) -- A Michigan congressman's decision to run for governor has opened up one of the nation's most competitive House seats, leaving Republicans scrambling to replace one of their top performers in the state and giving Democrats a sudden opportunity to gain a seat in the closely divided Congress.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a potential 2028 White House candidate, stood awkwardly in the Oval Office as President Donald Trump signed executive orders and assailed his political opponents on Wednesday, not long after she delivered a speech nearby that offered soft criticism of him but emphasized shared priorities.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivered a speech emphasizing points of agreement with President Donald Trump on economic policy, just hours before their scheduled meeting -- a reflection of the high-profile Democrat's more diplomatic approach toward the president as her party ramps up its attacks on him.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivered a speech emphasizing points of agreement with President Donald Trump on economic policy, just hours before their scheduled meeting -- a reflection of the high-profile Democrat's more diplomatic approach toward the president as her party ramps up its attacks on him.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sits at a table surrounded by University of Illinois researchers who will soon be out of work, their lab set to lose its federal funding and close next month. One researcher, saying she feels betrayed by the government, turns to thank Pritzker.
One after another, callers on a telephone town hall with U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga pressed the Michigan Republican about possible cuts to Social Security. Among them was a retired teacher and coach from West Michigan who said he and his wife, both with disabilities, have struggled to access their benefits.
SAUGATUCK, Mich. (AP) -- Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced that he will not seek an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, a move that leaves the door wide open for him to seek a much bigger role as his party's next presidential nominee.
SAUGATUCK, Mich. (AP) -- Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is set to announce that he will not seek an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, a move that leaves the door wide open for him to seek a much bigger role as his party's next presidential nominee.
SAUGATUCK, Mich. (AP) -- Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is set to announce that he will not seek an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, a move that leaves the door wide open for him to seek a much bigger role as his party's next presidential nominee.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Garlin Gilchrist II, a Democrat from Detroit who is Michigan's first Black lieutenant governor, announced he's jumping into the crowded 2026 race for governor on Tuesday.
HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) -- Protesters demanding an in-person town hall from their western Michigan GOP congressman chanted loudly Friday as honking drivers signaled support, disrupting the usual calm of a conservative family vacation town.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- First-term Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin accused President Donald Trump of driving up costs while pushing for an "unprecedented giveaway to his billionaire friends" in Tuesday night's Democratic response to his first joint congressional address of his second term.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- First-term Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin accused President Donald Trump of driving up costs while pushing for an "unprecedented giveaway to his billionaire friends" in Tuesday night's Democratic response to his first joint congressional address of his second term.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- The Democratic response to President Donald Trump'sjoint congressional address Tuesday was delivered by a first-term Michigan senator who built an extensive national security background before entering politics less than a decade ago.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- The Democratic response to President Donald Trump's first joint congressional address of his second presidency will be delivered by a freshman Michigan senator who built an extensive national security background before entering politics less than a decade ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's real-time confrontation with Maine's governor over transgender athletes captured the conundrum many Democratic governors are facing in the Republican's second term.
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- Chris Swanson, the high-profile sheriff of Michigan's Genesee County, is launching a Democratic bid to become the battleground state's next governor.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, who led the Democrats' Senate campaign efforts the past two election cycles, has announced he will not seek a third term in 2026, creating a highly contested battleground seat expected to be coveted by both major political parties.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan Sen. Gary Peters says he won't be seeking a third term in 2026.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan's top Republican leader in the state Senate announced Tuesday a candidacy for governor, becoming the first high-profile Republican to enter the race to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
MONROE, Mich. (AP) -- In a packed union hall outside Detroit, a worker shifts the conversation from policy to the personal, quizzing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on his knowledge of Michigan, the state he only recently started calling home.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Just a week after winning a majority of the vote in several of the nation's largest Arab-majority cities, President-elect Donald Trump has filled top administration posts with staunch Israel supporters, including an ambassador to Israel who has claimed "there is no such thing as Palestinians."
DETROIT (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin has won Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat, giving Democrats a bittersweet victory in a swing state that also backed Republican President-elect Donald Trump in his successful bid to return to the White House.
DETROIT (AP) -- The race for Michigan's open Senate seat between Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Republican former congressman Mike Rogers remained too early to call Wednesday after results in other states showed Democrats lost their slim majority in the upper chamber.
DETROIT (AP) -- The race for Michigan's open Senate seat between Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Republican former congressman Mike Rogers remained too early to call early Wednesday after results in other states showed Democrats lost their slim majority in the upper chamber.
DETROIT (AP) -- Michigan voters are deciding between Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Republican former congressman Mike Rogers in a tight U.S. Senate battleground contest that could sway the balance of federal power.
DETROIT (AP) -- Michigan voters are deciding between Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Republican former congressman Mike Rogers in a tight U.S. Senate battleground contest that could sway the balance of federal power.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Donald Trump on Friday met with Arab Americans in Dearborn, Michigan -- the nation's largest Arab-majority city -- as the Republican presidential nominee works to court the potentially decisive group despite his history of Islamophobic rhetoric and policy.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Donald Trump is set to visit Dearborn, Michigan -- the nation's largest Arab-majority city -- on Friday, according to a local business owner who first insisted the former president call for peace in Lebanon before hosting him.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Bowls of labneh and platters of za'atar bread covered the tables in a Lebanese restaurant near Detroit, yet no one seemed to have much of an appetite.
DETROIT (AP) -- Detroit rapper Eminem stepped into the political arena Tuesday in his hometown, where he spoke briefly at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris ' presidential campaign before welcoming former President Barack Obama to the stage.
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- The Democratic governors of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this week embarked on a swiftly organized bus tour, rolling through the autumn landscape to press the urgency of the case for Vice President Kamala Harris in must-win states where some Democrats worry that she's struggling.
ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) -- As canvassers for U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers navigate the manicured lawns and gated communities of some of Detroit's wealthiest suburbs, they walk a fine line in their efforts to convince Republicans disillusioned with Donald Trump to back other GOP candidates next month.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Tim Walz's dual role as Minnesota's governor and Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate was on full display Saturday as he attended a tailgate with Michigan football fans before going on the field to meet with Minnesota's coach.
BELLEVILLE, Mich. (AP) -- Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is set to make his final major campaign appearance before the coming week's debate at a football game between the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Saturday.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Tim Walz's dual role as Minnesota's governor and Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate was on full display Saturday he attended a tailgate with Michigan football fans before going on the field to meet with Minnesota's coach.
BELLEVILLE, Mich. (AP) -- Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is set to make his final major campaign appearance before the coming week's debate at a football game between the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Saturday.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- The rapidly escalating war in the Middle East has heightened anger at Democrats from within Michigan's Arab American community, just over a month before a presidential election in which Vice President Kamala Harris is counting on support from within a key party constituency.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the endorsement of one of the nation's largest Muslim American voter mobilization groups, marking a significant boost to her campaign since many Muslim and Arab American organizations have opted to support third-party candidates or not endorse.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Leaders of a Democratic protest vote movement against the Israel-Hamas war said Thursday that they would not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris ' presidential bid but strongly urged their supporters to vote against Donald Trump in November.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Former Michigan governors and elected officials from both parties are joining a wider effort to combat misinformation and attacks on voting and ballot-counting in several swing states ahead of the fast-approaching presidential election.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Leaders of an "Uncommitted" movement, which garnered hundreds of thousands of votes in Democratic primaries across the nation in protest of the Israel-Hamas war, have been negotiating for weeks to secure a speaking slot for a Palestinian American at the Democratic National Convention this week.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Of the thousands of delegates expected to gather Monday at the Democratic National Convention, just 36 will belong to the "uncommitted" movement sparked by dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Of the thousands of delegates expected to gather Monday at the Democratic National Convention, just 36 will belong to the "uncommitted" movement sparked by dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Of the thousands of delegates expected to gather Monday at the Democratic National Convention, just 36 will belong to the "uncommitted" movement sparked by dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- A pro-Trump lawyer who is facing felony charges in Michigan of improperly accessing voting equipment following the 2020 presidential election has been disqualified from representing a prominent funder of election conspiracy theorists who is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will spend their first full day as running mates on Wednesday rallying Democrats across the Midwest, a politically divided region that is crucial to their effort to win the White House in less than three months.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers has secured the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan and will face Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in the November election.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers has secured the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan and will face Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in the November election.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan voters on Tuesday will decide which Republican and Democratic candidates will compete in November for the state's highly coveted open U.S. Senate seat, in addition to several of the nation's most competitive U.S. House races.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- This year's presidential election was going to be it for Sheryl Guy, who was looking forward to retiring after more than four decades working in the clerk's office in northern Michigan's Antrim County.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Osama Siblani's phone won't stop ringing.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Osama Siblani's phone won't stop ringing.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- Detroit-area businessman Sandy Pensler has withdrawn from the Republican Senate race in Michigan just ahead of the state's primary, throwing his support behind former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers for the party's nomination.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday insisted that President Joe Biden can still win her state, a key battleground in the 2024 election, even as many national Democrats question whether Biden should move forward after his shaky debate performance.
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