Here’s my scenario.
Conyers ends up doing a campaign based on the write-in vote. Some guy convinces another guy in Detroit to run, who has a similar sounding name (Conners, Conley, Canners, etc). The day before the election....walk around and hand out sheets with big bold lettering “vote for Conners”. Idiots off the street will hold onto that and vote for the other guy.
Election ends, with the minister getting enough votes to win, then some mystery guy named Conners in second place, then some Republican, and finally Conyers getting ten percent.
The PRIMARY is in August. Does Michigan have a sore loser law? (Can he run as a write-in in the primary, and if he loses, run again as a write-in in the general?)
Even in a 4-way race among Conyers, Horace Sheffield (the only one in the Democrat primary), your Conners guy, and Jeff Gorman (the only one in the Republican primary), I would not be optimistic about a Republican winning the seat.
Strangely enough, there’s a Christina Conyers (R) running in the neighboring 14th District.....incumbent Gary Peters (D) is running for Senate, likely (D) nominee is former Representative Hansen Clarke.