How the Michigan election for Senator turns out might well determine which party controls the U.S. Senate for the next two years. The Democrat primary election was highly contested between U.S. Representative Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, which El-Sayed won by a margin of only one percent. Polls indicate that the general election between El-Seyad and Mike Rogers might be equally close.

After saying for months that she would support El-Sayed, on Sunday, Stevens formally endorsed Republican candidate Mike Rogers, apparently because she was excluded from a campaign event.

Let me get this straight. Because of a slight (whether real or perceived), this Democratic Congresswoman is willing to try to torpedo a Democratic chance to change control of the U.S. Senate. Apparently, now that she’ll be out of a job in January, she doesn’t care about her party any more.

Just for comparison, here are the biographies of the two, compiled from available public sources.

El-Sayed was born of Egyptian parents in Rochester Hills, a Detroit suburb, captained his high school’s wrestling, football, and lacrosse teams, then continued to play club lacrosse at the University of Michigan, where he majored in biology and political science. He went on to study medicine at Michigan, Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Columbia University, where he received his M.D. He then pursued a career in public health epidemiology as a tenure-track professor and later led the Detroit health department. In 2018, El-Sayed resigned as Detroit’s health director to run for governor but lost the Democratic primary to Gretchen Whitmer. After serving as Wayne County health director, he decided to run for the Senate seat in 2026.

Haley Stevens was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from American University. Before taking office as a member of Congress in 2018, Stevens worked for the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute in Chicago. Prior to that, she worked in the Obama administration as chief of staff for the short-lived Auto Task Force inside of the U.S. Department of Treasury. She was involved for a short time in setting up the Office of Recovery for Automotive Communities and Workers and the White House Office of Manufacturing Policy.

Expressing pique is one thing, but trying to sabotage your own party out of pique is quite another, at least from my perspective.