You Decide: Countdown to election; Rift forms in Democratic party

Fox - 2 Detroit
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Nov 1, 2026
Well, with the countdown to Election Day narrowing,
there's a lot of drama in the race for Senate.
It involves a rift between Democrats Abdul El-Sayed
and Haley Stevens, all of this opening
a door for Republican Mike Rogers.
With Haley Stevens most likely not publicly supporting El-Sayed,
would she consider crossing
party lines and her supporters as well?
Mike Rogers says if she's willing to help, he'll take it.
Fox 2's Camille Amiri is live tonight
with that side of the story. Camille.
Yeah, so obviously it's been in the news
that this whole Abdul El-Sayed, Haley Stevens thing,
that she was going to join him on the campaign trail,
and now he's saying no because he doesn't want the distraction,
and he just wants to focus on beating Mike Rogers,
so he uninvited her to his campaign stop tomorrow.
He said he just doesn't want any distractions,
didn't really want to talk about it much at this rally today.
We're going to talk about gas and groceries and,
of course, health care.
But then Mike Rogers weighed in on this at one of his campaign stops.
Take a listen to what he had to say.
She would be welcome to do that.
Listen, they're having I've never seen this in Democrat
politics where they just a candidate disavows a whole campaign
percentage of their voters.
I've just never quite seen it. And then to disinvite her,
I thought was candidly rude, a little petulant in my mind.
They got to heal all that up. But I
would be delighted. You know,
we're doing some more work this weekend, tomorrow here in Detroit,
visiting people, getting to know people where they are.
If she wanted to come and
be a part of that, I would openly welcome her to do that.
Okay, so Haley Stevens' fiancé says that he is voting for Mike Rogers.
Obviously, you know, there's a whole spectrum of people,
Democrats for Mike Rogers.
Haley Stevens has said that she is supporting Abdul El-Sayed.
Of course, he beat her in the primary just a few months ago.
So here we are just two, three days before the election.
And of course, this petty back and forth would really...
The candidates, as far as Abdul El-Sayed says,
he just wants to focus on the issues for the voters
and he wants to focus on getting people to the polls.
So we will see what happens, whether or not,
who joins forces with who and who wins on Tuesday.
But it is definitely a race that all eyes
are on throughout the country.
And as you pointed out at six o'clock, even throughout the world.
So that is what's going on here. A lot more to come.
Yeah. And, you know, Camille, you have to wonder, I mean,
with this just days away, this rift between Stevens and El-Sayed,
are you getting the sense that the El-Sayed campaign is trying
to switch gears or really kind of control this thing?
Because that split between them in the primary back
in August was really razor thin.
Yeah, it was.
You know, the whole Israeli-Palestine thing, I mean, it goes back,
obviously, you know, through the beginning of both of their campaigns.
But it was interesting during the gaggle, the press gaggle,
there was so much media from all over the country
and everybody wanted to ask him about Haley Stevens.
And he just said, you know, I'm not talking about it.
He's like, I want to talk about the issues.
And he said, if you guys, meaning the media,
if you guys don't want to talk about the issues,
then I will gladly go back inside
the other room where the voters still are.
This was during one of his rallies.
And I will go ahead and talk to them about
the issues because that's what matters to me.
And I think that when it comes down to it, you know,
we're talking about the high price of gas,
the high price of groceries.
And that is really what Abdul El-Sayed is focused on.
And he says not what he considers really petty nonsense.
All right. We will leave it there for now.
Of course, pick it up tomorrow for a poll special
and Tuesday election day. Fox News Camilla Murray reporting live
in Sterling Heights. Thank you so
much.
