Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed yesterday in a stunning development in the battleground race.
\n\nPresident Donald Trump held the final rally of a 28-stop midterm blitz yesterday in Kansas. Jacquelyn Martin / AP
\n\nRep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers yesterday, a major shake-up in the final stages of a top battleground race that could determine which party controls the Senate.
\n\n“Hey, Michigan, as you may have seen, our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul, said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away,” Stevens said in a video.
\n\n“And he’s right, and that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today,” she said. “I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign.”
\n\nOutside a hangar at Salina’s regional airport, Trump reached a milestone last night: the last rally of his last midterm election as president.
\n\nTrump’s appearance capped a furious campaign blitz in which he held 28 rallies across the country since Oct. 1 in hope of preserving Republicans’ slim congressional majority. The president’s approval rating was only 40% in the most recent NBC News poll, but he is…
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