{"id":229534,"date":"2026-11-02T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/democrats-condemn-haley-stevens-betrayal-following-endorsement-of-republican-mike-rogers-us-politics-live-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:32:11","slug":"democrats-condemn-haley-stevens-betrayal-following-endorsement-of-republican-mike-rogers-us-politics-live-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/democrats-condemn-haley-stevens-betrayal-following-endorsement-of-republican-mike-rogers-us-politics-live-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats condemn Haley Stevens\u2019 \u2018betrayal\u2019 following endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers \u2013 US politics live – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic candidate for Michigan US Senate seat raised $2.4m on Sunday after congresswoman Haley Stevens pulled her endorsement of him in favor of Trump-backed Mike Rogers
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Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s Senate campaign announced that it received $2.4m in donations on Sunday<\/strong>, the day that Haley Stevens announced she would now pull her support from the Democratic nominee and back Republican Mike Rogers.
El-Sayed\u2019s campaign that the amount is a single-day fundraising record for his Senate bid.<\/strong> His staff also noted that more than 26,000 people contributed for the first time on Sunday.
In the four hours after Stevens defected on Sunday, Politico reported <\/a>that El-Sayed\u2019s campaign raised $1.2m, which was already its second-highest day of donations.
Chris Pappas is stopping himself from getting too excited ahead of Tuesday\u2019s midterm election.<\/strong>
\u201cI take nothing for granted,\u201d said the four-term US representative and Democratic nominee for New Hampshire\u2019s open Senate seat. \u201cThis is a very purple, competitive state. Elections are never in the bag here.\u201d
The race to replace the retiring Democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen has emerged as a source of 11th hour anxiety for the party.
In their attempt to gain four seats and reclaim control of the Senate, Democrats can\u2019t afford to lose one they already hold. But September polling showing Pappas virtually tied<\/a> with his Republican opponent, former senator John Sununu, rattled party strategists and raised the prospect that New Hampshire could become an unexpected battleground.
The warning signs were striking in a state Donald Trump<\/a> has lost in each of his three presidential bids.
While Pappas has regained a narrow advantage in most polls, and the Cook Political Report moved the race in early October from \u201ctoss-up\u201d to \u201clean Democrat\u201d, his closing message has focused heavily on tying Sununu to an unpopular president.
Trump\u2019s approval rating sits at just 32% in the state, according to a recent University of New Hampshire poll<\/a>,<\/strong> giving Democrats hope that voter frustration with the administration will ultimately benefit Pappas\u2019s run.
\u201cSununu has spent most of the last year on team Trump, and now that we\u2019re getting within range of the election, he\u2019s recognizing how unpopular the president is,\u201d<\/strong> Pappas said as he traveled the state in the final days on the trail, often joined by party heavyweights, like Arizona senator Mark Kelly and former vice-president Kamala Harris.
Sununu, however, has spent much of the campaign arguing that independence, not loyalty, defines his political record.<\/strong>
The former senator has emphasized his criticism of Trump\u2019s trade war with Canada, which has affected several industries in the state, and in a recent campaign advertisement, he even claimed to have \u201cnever met<\/a>\u201d the president.
The former senator\u2019s anti-Trump bona fides do have some roots. In 2024, he voiced his support or Nikki Haley in an op-ed<\/a> during Republican primary campaign, and also branded Trump a \u201closer\u201d.
Read my full dispatch from New Hampshire here: <\/em>
Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s Senate campaign announced that it received $2.4m in donations on Sunday<\/strong>, the day that Haley Stevens announced she would now pull her support from the Democratic nominee and back Republican Mike Rogers.
El-Sayed\u2019s campaign that the amount is a single-day fundraising record for his Senate bid.<\/strong> His staff also noted that more than 26,000 people contributed for the first time on Sunday.
In the four hours after Stevens defected on Sunday, Politico reported <\/a>that El-Sayed\u2019s campaign raised $1.2m, which was already its second-highest day of donations.
The latest and final New York Times and Siena College poll <\/a>before the midterm elections also shows Abdul El-Sayed leading Mike Rogers in the US Senate race in Michigan by 11 percentage points<\/strong>, outside the margin of error.
The survey took place before Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens announced that she would back Rogers in the contest \u2013 a vital seat for her party to retain in their quest for control of the Senate.
Democrats are leading in all of the seven battlegrounds this cycle, including midwest states like Kansas and Iowa that have become newly competitive in recent months.
After Haley Stevens announced her decision to back Mike Rogers in the Michigan US Senate<\/a> race, she defended her move in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
\u201cThis is just a weight off my shoulders. Abdul [El-Sayed] has been getting angrier and angrier,\u201d<\/strong> she said, referring to the Democratic nominee. However, anchor Anderson Cooper pressed Stevens on what had changed, considering there were reports that just hours before pulling her support, the congresswoman had told Democratic colleagues that she was still backing El-Sayed.
After evading the question, Stevens said that she \u201chad some time to, you know, think\u201d, but still didn\u2019t provide a specific answer to what about El-Sayed\u2019s candidacy over the last 12 hours led her to endorse Rogers.
Many of the issues Stevens eventually gave were historic concerns, including El-Sayed\u2019s decision to campaign with leftwing streamer Hasan Piker.
Cooper pressed Stevens further: \u201cThose things that you cited, though, were from a while ago, and it seemed like those were OK for you up until some point yesterday, and then the only really new development was the disinviting to you know a campaign event or a church service that seems to be the crucial kind of turning point? Is that correct?\u201d
But the representative \u2013 who narrowly lost the August primary to El-Sayed after a bitter contest that saw her campaign boosted by millions of dollars from the pro-Israel lobby \u2013 didn\u2019t expand on her reasoning and sought to downplay her defection.
\u201cI\u2019m just casting my vote this one way. In Michigan<\/a>, there\u2019s a lot of people out there voting,\u201d she said.
When asked how she squares a vote for Rogers \u2013 when she has blasted him for being a \u201crubber stamp\u201d for Trump\u2019s \u201cMaga agenda\u201d \u2013 Stevens instead said that she was unhappy voting for a Democratic nominee who is \u201cinjecting\u201d this \u201canger and lack of kindness\u201d, without offering any specific recent examples.
As we continue to bring you more on the fallout of Haley Stevens\u2019 decision to endorse Republican nominee Mike Rogers<\/strong> in the US Senate<\/a> race in Michigan, the chorus of anger and frustration at the Democratic congresswoman continues to grow.
On Sunday, Nancy Pelosi<\/strong>, the outgoing US representative, former House speaker, and once the party\u2019s kingmaker-in-chief, said that Stevens has \u201cchosen to dangerously betray Michigan<\/a> families\u2019 healthcare, freedoms and future with her horrific endorsement [of Rogers]\u201d.
In the homestretch of the election, Donald Trump will be in Washington today, after a weekend of campaigning in Iowa and Kansas<\/strong>. He\u2019s set to deliver remarks at 2pm ET by the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, after which he\u2019ll take part in several tele-rallies from the White House.
We\u2019ll bring you the latest lines as that gets under way.
Donald Trump railed against Democratic US Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed at a campaign event in Iowa Sunday, repeatedly referring to the Michigan progressive as a \u201cjihadist\u201d.<\/strong>
Trump\u2019s comments aimed to influence a neck-and-neck race that will play an outsized role in determining which party controls the Senate after Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections.
The president bashed El-Sayed, a practicing Muslim, in brazenly racist terms, saying that Congress would have to \u201cget a special metal detector for Abdul\u201d if he were elected. \u201cIf you vote for this jihadist lunatic that wants to destroy you, you\u2019re crazy,\u201d Trump said.
The Michigan race has drawn national attention<\/a> in recent days, as Hayley Stevens, who lost to El-Sayed in the August primary election, declined to campaign with him, while demanding that he publicly disavow an outside group\u2019s political ad that posited a link between rising prices and US military support for Israel\u2019s war on Gaza.
El-Sayed responded by telling Stevens to stay away from a campaign event at which they were supposed to appear together on Sunday. Stevens turned around and endorsed Mike Rogers<\/a>, El-Sayed\u2019s Republican opponent. Stevens\u2019s high-profile defection in the waning hours of the tight race drew the condemnation of Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, who is Jewish.
Trump, on the other hand, heaped praise on Stevens for turning against El-Sayed, urging her to join the GOP.
\u201cIt was an incredible thing,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI\u2019d love her to join the Republican party. I think that could happen.\u201d
Immigrants who have been granted release from detention after winning habeas corpus petitions in court are being re-arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE<\/a>).<\/strong>
The Guardian has identified at least 20 cases nationwide relating to people who were detained after being released on habeas corpus petition in the last year, according to court records, attorneys and media reports.
Increasing arrests and detentions<\/a> have led to immigrants filing more than 91,000 habeas petitions as they seek to challenge their detentions, according to research by ProPublica<\/a>. More petitions have been filed since 25 January than during the past three presidential administrations, including Trump\u2019s first term, combined, the outlet found.
A petition of habeas corpus \u2013 Latin for \u201cyou shall have a body\u201d \u2013 challenges in a federal court the government\u2019s right to hold someone in custody while their main legal case is proceeding.
But in a new development, people are winning their release only to find themselves quickly detained again.
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a very, very sharp increase in people who are released on habeas petitions, only to be very rapidly re-detained, often in violation of the federal court\u2019s order,\u201d said Bridget Pranzatelli, an attorney with the National Immigration Project.
Two years on from her devastating presidential election defeat, Kamala Harris<\/a> was greeted like a rockstar as she took the stage before a rapt audience at Georgia\u2019s Clark Atlanta University.<\/strong>
When a politician is greeted by a friendly crowd, they often hear chants of <\/strong>their name. But at Clark, an historically-Black college (HBCU), students instead delivered a <\/strong>school spirit chant for the Atlanta University Center, celebrating an HBCU alumna \u2013 and the country\u2019s first female and first Black vice-president \u2013 as one of their own.
Harris is \u201cbig sister general\u201d, said Sanaiya Archer, a sophomore at Spelman College in Atlanta. \u201cI\u2019m able to see myself in her. Not that I personally relate to her, but she went to an HBCU, she\u2019s an HBCU alum, I\u2019m at an HBCU. And it\u2019s just amazing to see a Black woman that I can see anywhere else in my life on a presidential scale.\u201d
That scale has yet to reach the Oval Office. In 2024, following the reluctant withdrawal of Joe Biden, Harris launched a 107-day campaign for the White House which again brought to the US tantalizingly close to electing its first female president. She lost.
Donald Trump\u2019s return left Democrats<\/a> reeling \u2013 again. Even as it contests this week\u2019s midterm elections, the party has yet to settle on who could lead it back into power, and how.
In his first public comments since Stevens\u2019s endorsement of Rogers, El-Sayed told reporters at a press conference outside of a rally he held on Sunday, the very same rally that Stevens had earlier been disinvited from attending, \u201cAt the end of the day, I actually don\u2019t think about Haley Stevens.\u201d He added, \u201cI\u2019m just less interested in the politics of it all than I am in the policy of it all.<\/strong>
\u201cIf you are somebody who believes that we should stand up to hate, and you have watched this last campaign, I think we probably would not want to support Mike Rogers and Donald Trump<\/a> and JD Vance,\u201d he said.
But Stevens\u2019s political pivot earned her praise from Donald Trump, someone whose policies she has an entire page on her website dedicated to denouncing.
Trump, during his rally in Iowa, heaped praise on Stevens for turning against El-Sayed, urging her to join the GOP. \u201cIt was an incredible thing,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI\u2019d love her to join the Republican party. I think that could happen.\u201d
Stevens had lost by a close margin in this year\u2019s primary, and for months had refused to openly campaign for El-Sayed, as had his other opponent Mallory McMorrow.
Some of the people who worked for Stevens\u2019s campaign also reportedly quit following her Rogers endorsement.<\/strong>
Her long-time chief of staff, Justin German, and her communications director, Logan Basch, were among those who left, according to CNN correspondent Manu Raju.
German later released a statement on behalf of Stevens\u2019 campaign team endorsing El-Sayed:
double quotation mark<\/title><\/path><\/svg>As Haley Stevens\u2019 Chief of staff for eight years, I speak on behalf of our team in wholeheartedly supporting Abdul El-Sayed for Senate. This election is too important to sow division or stand on the sidelines.
We are shocked and heartbroken by Congresswoman Stevens\u2019 decision to support Mike Rogers.
Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.
Democratic politicians have condemned congresswoman Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan<\/a> Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed, over her endorsement of his Republican rival just days before the midterm vote.<\/strong>
Stevens\u2019 extraordinary endorsement of Mike Rogers was the culmination of an escalating feud between the former primary rivals \u2013 primarily over support for Israel<\/a> \u2013 that has roiled one of the most fiercely contested Senate contests of the cycle.
As one might expect, top Democrats<\/a> have been quick to express their outrage at the congresswoman\u2019s \u201cbetrayal\u201d.
California governor Gavin Newsom said on the political talkshow 2WAY<\/a> that Stevens \u201cwent another 180 degrees overnight, so something was going on there\u201d. \u201cShe\u2019s been successful at taking our eye off the ball and that\u2019s why I understand party leadership condemning it … This may be curiously the October surprise of sorts,\u201d he added.
Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer also responded negatively to the endorsement. Schumer\u2019s campaign account called it<\/a> a \u201cdespicable betrayal\u201d from Stevens in a statement, but continued to push for unity among Democrats. He said:
double quotation mark<\/title><\/path><\/svg>Senate Democrats are united in our support for Abdul El-Sayed, because we know he will fight for the economic interests of working families in Michigan, unlike Mike Rogers, who is a tool of Donald Trump and billionaire donors. We Democrats equally united in our total revulsion at the racist, Islamophobic, and over-the-top false attacks on Abdul by Republicans<\/a>.
These attacks are evidence of the total bankruptcy of the Republican Party today, who resort to ugly and un-American fearmongering because they have nothing to offer on the problems that concern people today.
Meanwhile, Michigan\u2019s Democratic party chair Curtis Hertel said:
double quotation mark<\/title><\/path><\/svg>Haley Stevens\u2019 decision to campaign with Rogers \u2013 a man who has repeatedly sold out Michigan\u2019s working class, wants to pass a national abortion ban, and has pledged to be a loyal vote for Trump\u2019s agenda \u2013 shows that she has abandoned everything she claims to care about. We reject the attempts by Stevens and bad-faith actors to divide our party and undermine our momentum, and will not allow these eleventh-hour distractions deter us.
Bernie Sanders joined the controversy, attacking Stevens for what Democrats view as an extraordinary betrayal after Stevens accepted El-Sayed\u2019s narrow victory over her in Michigan\u2019s Democrat senate primaries.
\u201cRep. Haley Stevens\u2019 staff is right to resign in disgust,\u201d Sanders posted on X.<\/a> \u201cThey understand that the election in Michigan is far more important than Haley\u2019s fragile ego and that all of us must stand together to elect Abdul, defeat Rogers and end the Republican rubber-stamp control of the Senate.\u201d
Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, said<\/a> Stevens had \u201cbetrayed\u201d working class people \u201cby endorsing the very Republican she said she wanted to run against\u201d.
Read our full report here:
In other developments:
Donald Trump railed against Democratic US senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed at a campaign event in Iowa Sunday, repeatedly referring to the Michigan progressive as a \u201cjihadist\u201d.<\/strong> The president bashed El-Sayed, a practicing Muslim, in brazenly racist terms, saying that Congress would have to \u201cget a special metal detector for Abdul\u201d if he were elected. \u201cIf you vote for this jihadist lunatic that wants to destroy you, you\u2019re crazy,\u201d Trump said.
A judge has dismissed the Donald Trump-backed lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska\u2019s US Senate<\/a> race if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses.<\/strong> Trump said on 23 October that he had ordered the justice department to file the lawsuit in a move that voting rights experts called an \u201cunprecedented intervention\u201d by the federal government with control of Congress in the balance.
Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy has been hospitalized<\/a> after suffering a stroke.<\/strong> Murphy, 53, started feeling numbness in his arm while attending his son\u2019s hockey game on Saturday, according to the Connecticut<\/a> senator\u2019s chief of staff, Allison Herwitt. A hospital visit confirmed that Murphy had experienced a stroke.<\/p>\n

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