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House Dems mull response to Stevens endorsement fallout

Plus: Trump turns Reflecting Pool reopening into midterm campaign pitch and Senate Dems review election threats with Marc Elias ahead of midterms.

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Michael Jones
Nov 02, 2026
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) speaks alongside Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers after a church service in Detroit on Sunday. Photo by Jose Juarez/AP

👋🏾 HI, HEY, HELLO! Welcome back to Congress Nerd Daily. I hope today was everything for you. The midterms are in tomorrow.

House Democrats are ready to move on from Rep. Haley Stevens’s endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers for Senate, even as some privately discuss whether to remove the Michigan Democrat from their caucus before her term expires in January.

Stevens began Sunday campaigning with Rogers at a Detroit church and ended it in a tense CNN interview, where she struggled to explain her abrupt reversal. The endorsement came less than 48 hours before the election between Rogers and Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who defeated Stevens in the August primary.

A House Democrat told me this afternoon that colleagues remain offended that she used a Black church as the backdrop for her endorsement but are tired of discussing Stevens.

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