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Haley Stevens Was Supposed To Campaign With El-Sayed. Where She Showed Up Speaks Volumes.

Stevens has voiced growing concern over El-Sayed.

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) was scheduled to appear at a campaign event with Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed on Sunday, but instead attended a church service alongside his opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI).

Stevens was seen entering Perfecting Church, a Pentecostal congregation in Detroit, where Rogers was attending Sunday services. She greeted Rogers with a hug as she entered the building.

Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers appearing with Democrat U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens at Perfecting Church in Detroit pic.twitter.com/Jxg5cEufV1

— Sam Robinson (@samueljrob) November 1, 2026

She stopped to make one brief statement before entering the sanctuary with Rogers, saying she supported investing in black-owned businesses "[and] that is a policy that Mike's going to take on."

Stevens says she’s for investing in Black owned businesses. “And that’s the policy that Mike’s going to take on,” Stevens says. pic.twitter.com/AdPPFxGyEC

— Sam Robinson (@samueljrob) November 1, 2026

Stevens lost to El-Sayed in Michigan's Democrat Senate primary. Her support for El Sayed in recent weeks remained tepid at best. She did suggest that she would still be voting Democrat in the general election on Tuesday.

In the last several weeks, however, Stevens has voiced growing concern over El-Sayed — in particular because of an ad that blamed the American affordability crisis on U.S. funding for Israel.

The ad in question, which was initially made for The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur's ill-fated presidential run in 2024, claimed that if American families could not afford necessities, it was because taxpayer dollars were being used to pay for Israel to wage war in Gaza.

Stevens addressed the ad publicly, saying, "This type of fearmongering about Israel is wrong. It is not a winning strategy for any state. It does nothing to help Michigan Democrats win up and down the ballot in eight days. Do we need to lower costs by building more homes, securing people's health care, and creating a fairer federal tax code? Yes, we do!! How we do so is not by blaming the high costs of our goods on the only Jewish homeland in the world. I want to see Democrats succeed at every level, and that means keeping our focus on lowering costs for Michigan families and reining in this out-of-control President."

Just days after the ad dropped, Stevens — who has long described herself as a non-Jewish Zionist — was asked on CNN whether she'd still support El-Sayed in the general election.

All she would confirm to "State of the Union" host Dana Bash was that she was "still on the [Democrat] team."

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