{"id":80807,"date":"2026-11-02T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/why-did-a-democrat-endorse-a-rival-republican-in-michigan-the-latest\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:55:18","slug":"why-did-a-democrat-endorse-a-rival-republican-in-michigan-the-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/why-did-a-democrat-endorse-a-rival-republican-in-michigan-the-latest\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did a Democrat endorse a rival Republican in Michigan? &#8211; The Latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens has endorsed the Republican candidate for the Senate after a spat with her party\u2019s own candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. The endorsement stunned Stevens\u2019 Democrat colleagues, with one calling it a \u2018despicable betrayal\u2019 on the eve of the midterm elections. So what will it mean for the race? Lucy Hough speaks to US southern bureau chief and host of Anywhere but Washington Oliver Laughland<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/video\/2026\/nov\/02\/why-did-a-democrat-endorse-a-rival-republican-in-michigan-the-latest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens has endorsed the Republican candidate for the Senate after a spat with her party\u2019s own candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. The endorsement stunned Stevens\u2019 Democrat colleagues, with one calling it a \u2018despicable betrayal\u2019 on the eve of the midterm elections. So what will it mean for the race? Lucy Hough speaks &#8230; <a title=\"Why did a Democrat endorse a rival Republican in Michigan? &#8211; The Latest\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/why-did-a-democrat-endorse-a-rival-republican-in-michigan-the-latest\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why did a Democrat endorse a rival Republican in Michigan? &#8211; The Latest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}