Thirty-five Senate seats and all 435 House of Representatives seats are on the ballot on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Republicans hold narrow majorities in both chambers. Polls show Democrats are favored to win a majority of the House and are locked in a tight battle for control of the Senate, where the outcome likely will rest with a handful of states, including Michigan and Alaska.<\/p>\n
If Democrats take control of the House or Senate, they could block Mr Trump’s legislative agenda for his final two years in office and launch investigations of an administration that has so far faced largely compliant Republican majorities.<\/p>\n
The White House has been preparing to implement portions of Mr Trump’s agenda without the aid of \u200cCongress.<\/p>\n
Michigan rift<\/p>\n
Ms Stevens’ endorsement of Mr Rogers came on the day she was scheduled to \u2060appear with Dr El-Sayed in a show of party unity. But the planned event unraveled after Ms Stevens called on Dr El-Sayed to condemn an outside group’s ad that she said blames Israel for high grocery prices.<\/p>\n
“We can’t stand with hate,” Ms Stevens told reporters yesterday, standing alongside Mr Rogers after the church service.<\/p>\n
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\nDr El-Sayed speaks to supporters at the ‘Knock Out the Vote Rally’ in Southfield, Michigan<\/p>\n
Dr El-Sayed’s campaign recently asked Ms Stevens to skip his events through Election Day so as “not to distract from the central issues of the campaign”, a person familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n
Republicans sought to capitalise on Ms Stevens’ move. “This is courage in politics in America today,” Mr Rogers said. “When you see a party, and at least a sliver of the party, veering off into the virulent hate that they have been spewing toward a group of people, it gets dangerous.”<\/p>\n
Later yesterday, at the Iowa rally, Mr Trump \u200crepeated false claims that Dr El-Sayed is a “jihadist” – attacks that fit a broader pattern of inflammatory rhetoric from Mr Trump and other Republicans targeting Arab Americans and Muslims.<\/p>\n
Dr El-Sayed, who has been subjected to a campaign of racist and Islamophobic attacks, has rejected such accusations and called questions about his loyalty to the United States “shameful”.<\/p>\n
He declined to directly address Ms Stevens’ endorsement, saying \u2060he was focused on other issues.<\/p>\n
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\nMs Stevens formally backed Republican candidate Mr Rogers, sealing her rupture with Dr El-Sayed<\/p>\n
The move appeared to have little effect on some early voters in Michigan, where Dr El-Sayed has a nearly 4-point lead over Mr Rogers, according to the RealClearPolling estimate.<\/p>\n
“Haley Stevens is a traitor,” said \u200cPamela Johnson, 72, after casting her ballot for Dr El-Sayed in Warren, a Detroit suburb.<\/p>\n
David Kolar, a 32-year-old elementary teacher, said Ms Stevens’ endorsement “seemed like a last-second distraction.” He said he \u2060voted for Dr El-Sayed because of \u200chis support for universal government-funded healthcare.<\/p>\n
A number of Ms Stevens’ congressional staff resigned over the endorsement, according to reports from CNN and the Hill.<\/p>\n
Ms Stevens’ longtime chief of staff, Justin German, could not immediately be reached to verify the reports, which quoted a statement from him saying, “as of this morning, many members of our team have resigned, including myself”.<\/p>\n
The statement described him as “shocked and heartbroken” by Ms Stevens’ endorsement.<\/p>\n
Alaska intervention falters<\/p>\n
Separately, the Trump administration’s attempt to intervene in Alaska’s Senate race faltered when a federal judge dismissed the US Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to block certification of the \u2060results if Republican incumbent Senator Dan S. Sullivan narrowly loses.<\/p>\n
The Justice Department argued voters may be confused by the presence of a challenger named Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. on the same ballot.<\/p>\n
The issue has roiled the campaign over the last several \u2060days after the New York Times reported that Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign was involved in recruiting Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. into the race as a spoiler.<\/p>\n
The senator said he would accept the results of Tuesday’s election even as the Trump administration presses a criminal investigation into the issue.<\/p>\n
But Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, has suggested he may not certify a victory by Ms Peltola, and the incumbent Sullivan declined to say whether he would support efforts to refuse certification.<\/p>\n
Read more: He joined his party colleagues in accusing the other Sullivan of trying to confuse voters with his similar name.<\/p>\n “They got the decoy guy on the ballot,” the senator told CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “I’m sure I’m going to lose a lot of votes to that trickery. So what I say to Alaskans is, ‘Don’t let them get away with the tricks.'”<\/p>\n Ms Peltola has denied involvement, and Mr Sullivan Jr. has denied coordinating with Ms Peltola’s campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A prominent Michigan Democrat has endorsed Republican Mike Rogers, giving President Donald Trump’s Republicans an unexpected boost in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-672414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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