Long-time Democrat incumbent Gary Peters is throwing in the towel, leaving behind an open Senate seat in a very purple state – one that has supported the winner of the last five presidential elections but hasn’t elected a Republican to the Senate since 1994. Most recently: While President Trump was carrying Michigan once again in 2024, former Congressman Mike Rogers fell just a few thousand votes short of victory against Elissa Slotkin in that year’s Senate race. After securing President Trump’s endorsement in the 2026 race, Mike Rogers cleared the GOP field. On the Democrat side, radical terrorist-apologist Abdul El-Sayed is shaking up the race with support from Bernie Sanders and AOC – leaving his two more establishment rivals looking lost. It’s a stark contrast with Mike Rogers, a veteran who was an FBI agent before entering politics. Rogers currently has the best opportunity on the map to flip a Senate seat from blue to red.