Two days before the midterms, Michigan’s Senate race just got turned upside down.

Rep. Haley Stevens — a Democrat who represents the Detroit suburbs — announced Sunday that she is endorsing Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, breaking with her own party’s nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, who narrowly defeated her in the August primary.

“Our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul, said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away. And he’s right,” Stevens said in a video posted Sunday to her campaign’s X account, filmed from a parked car. “And that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today. I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign.” She added that she remains “a very proud Democrat.”

The announcement followed a surprise appearance Sunday morning with Rogers at Perfecting Church in Detroit, where the two attended the service together around 11:20 a.m. Stevens had initially planned to appear Sunday at a unity event for El-Sayed — before the public falling-out late last week, when El-Sayed disinvited her and she publicly accused him of blaming Israel for grocery prices in a campaign ad she called antisemitic.

“I’m honored to have Haley Stevens’ support today. I’m honored to have earned that vote,” Rogers posted on X. “There are lots of Democrats that are joining us.”

Michigan Democratic Party chairman Curtis Hertel pushed back sharply. “Mike Rogers is Donald Trump’s handpicked candidate for Senate, a rubber stamp for Trump’s toxic agenda, and a corrupt politician looking out only for himself,” Hertel said in a statement. “The Michigan Democratic Party stands united and fully behind Abdul El-Sayed, a proven, committed fighter for Michigan’s working families.”

The fallout is already real: Stevens’ chief of staff is resigning over the endorsement, along with several other staffers in her House office, and her communications director’s email auto-replies that he is “no longer with the Office of Congresswoman Haley Stevens” as of Nov. 1.

The stakes: El-Sayed holds about a 3.5-point edge over Rogers in the RealClearPolitics average — one of the tightest Senate races in the country, with control of the Senate potentially on the line Tuesday. And just across the state line in Ohio, Toledo voters may remember Rogers as the Republican who lost Michigan’s 2024 Senate race by less than half a percentage point.

Sources: New York Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and the X post.

Photo: Official portrait, U.S. House of Representatives, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons