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Democrats lose another top contender for US Senate seat in Michigan after Whitmer and Buttigieg bow out
CNN ^ | Fri April 11, 2025 | Sarah Ferris

Posted on 04/13/2025 4:43:04 PM PDT by T Ruth

Another top Democratic contender for Michigan’s open Senate seat has begun informing colleagues she will take a pass on the race, according to three people familiar with the conversations, narrowing the field for a seat that Democrats are increasingly worried about whether they can keep next November.

Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet, a freshman Democrat who won a key battleground seat last year, has decided to stay in the House – a decision that is making some Michigan Democrats anxious about their chances of securing a top-tier candidate to go up against a Republican who nearly won the seat last year.

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The fate of Michigan’s Senate seat will be crucial in the 2026 midterms, where Democrats are grappling with key retirements – including Sen. Gary Peters in Michigan – as they attempt to flip enough seats to win back Senate control facing an already challenging map. Trump won the battleground state in two of the last three presidential elections – plus, his own adviser, Chris LaCivita, is working closely with one of the leading potential GOP candidates, former Rep. Mike Rogers, who lost to now-Sen. Elissa Slotkin by fewer than 20,000 votes last year.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: buttigieg; democrats; elsayed; homosexualagenda; lacivita; mcmorrow; michigan; rivet; rogers; slotkin; stevens; tate; whitmer
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1 posted on 04/13/2025 4:43:04 PM PDT by T Ruth
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To: T Ruth

isn’t buttigege from Indiana? or some other state.


2 posted on 04/13/2025 4:50:14 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: T Ruth

Now that they realized that DOGE understands how they cheat, no ones wants to run an actual campaign and debate the issues. Lol.


3 posted on 04/13/2025 4:50:25 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: T Ruth

I’ll bet you a nickel Whitmer dropped out because Trump had a conversation with her, as in, “We know what you’ve done, here’s the proof, and if you run, we’ll let the whole world know. Do you feel lucky? Now make like a nice little bitc# and stay out. Thank you.” He may not be able to prove it in a court of law, but the court of public opinion is another matter altogether.


4 posted on 04/13/2025 4:55:26 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: b4me

𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢? 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦.

If I’m not mistaken, he moved up to Traverse City (MI) in the past couple of years.


5 posted on 04/13/2025 4:56:05 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: b4me

Yes he is from Indiana.

His man “husband” is from Michigan , and they decided to live in Michigan.

That’s why there was speculation he might run for Senator from Michigan.


6 posted on 04/13/2025 4:57:57 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: b4me

They can always run an arsonist, since that is there new base. I wish I wad kidding.


7 posted on 04/13/2025 5:04:49 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: Eccl 10:2

Nah, she just think this will help her become president


8 posted on 04/13/2025 5:07:23 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: T Ruth
“This is going to be a very messy primary,” (said) one senior Democrat


Rep Haley Stevens


Abdul El-Sayed


Mallory McMorrow


Joe Tate

The article mentions four candidates , yet only pictures one , sloppy “reporting” there CNN. Especially in the digital age, they could have pulled a pic from the interwebs, just like I did.

9 posted on 04/13/2025 5:25:57 PM PDT by OldHarbor
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“isn’t buttigege from Indiana? or some other state.”

He’s from the state of ur anus.


10 posted on 04/13/2025 5:26:59 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: T Ruth

“Trump won the battleground state in two of the last three presidential elections”

Actually President Trump won MI all three times, the middle-of-the-night ballot dump in downtown ghetto Detroit along with the place being boarded up in the morning helped Xiden steal the election, nothing new here.

“...Buttigieg bow out...”

That’s a disgusting visual.


11 posted on 04/13/2025 5:27:17 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: T Ruth

Given what the Congress has become, the Senate seems like a perfect landing spot for “Mayor Pete”.

Wonder why he dropped out?


12 posted on 04/13/2025 5:31:23 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: Antihero101607

I went to college in TC back in the 70’s, rock solid red. Today the area is loaded with fags and money from Chicago that didn’t use to be there. Solid blue now and is just a nostalgic memory.


13 posted on 04/13/2025 5:32:49 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: OldHarbor

“This is going to be a very messy primary,” (said) one senior Democrat.

But Bette Davis had the classic movie line:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEEh0GF_C8


14 posted on 04/13/2025 5:37:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: T Ruth

Mike Rogers is a weak Republican candidate, they need someone stronger or will face another defeat.


15 posted on 04/13/2025 5:38:59 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: Jim Noble

Buttplug never announced a campaign, combine that with WHitler being termed out, SOS Benson, President Trump presence etc. It would be more than that squish would want to deal with along with the Xiden baggage.

No doubt the dems will pick some minority (for the sake of) so they can can call everybody ‘raciss’ along with the MSM. It will be quite predictable.


16 posted on 04/13/2025 5:42:04 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: T Ruth

Ask rivet what role she played in the bay city bridge fiasco...
Duck, dodge, hide she will play


17 posted on 04/13/2025 5:44:31 PM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO!! The end.)
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To: b4me

It appears that the prospective Democrat candidates all think they would not have the vote manipulation muscle sufficient to win.


18 posted on 04/13/2025 5:47:09 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe )
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To: cowboyusa

There base? Where?


19 posted on 04/13/2025 5:48:44 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe .)
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To: T Ruth

Whitmer is going to join Trumps cabinet after the midterms


20 posted on 04/13/2025 5:50:57 PM PDT by Lod881019
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