Haley Stevens has no regrets over GOP endorsement as Mike Rogers defends her from vicious Dems

WHITE LAKE, Mich.— Democratic Rep.

Haley Stevens said she has no regrets about voting for Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers in Michigan as he defended her against the vicious attacks from members of her own party.Stevens said it was “worth” voting a split ticket, supporting Democrats down the ballot except for Abdul El-Sayed in the Senate race.“Voting is always worth it,” she told News Nation as she went into her polling place to cast her ballot. And she expressed confidence her party would win the House majority on Tuesday, saying she’s already spoken to Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York.“It’s the people’s day.And I’ve told this to our next speaker of the House, Hakeem Jeffries: It’s majority-makers day,” she said.Democrats en masse disavowed Stevens for voting against El Sayed, whom she previously endorsed after losing to him in the contentious August primary by one point.

Several of them called on her to be thrown out of the party, said her political future was finished, and alleged she had been influenced by pressure from her Jewish fiancé, Jason Turkish, into supporting Rogers.But Rogers defended her, calling her courageous and slamming the vitriol hurled her way.“I’m disappointed in how vicious they’ve been,” Rogers told reporters at his polling place at St.Patrick Catholic Church in his congressional district. “But I think that speaks to who the modern Democrat Party is.

Here’s somebody who said, ‘I voted Democrat all the way down the list, except for one person who I think is too extreme for our state.’ That’s country over party.They ought to celebrate her courage and encourage her to continue to being a Democrat rather than trying to throw her out of the party, I mean, I’ve never seen such viciousness online.”Rogers said El-Sayed, who is part of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, is too extreme for Michigan.

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