Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | TV | November 2, 2026
We mostly stay out of politics these days (for, ahem, reasons), but when politics and good television collide, how can we resist? Yesterday, Haley Stevens — a centrist Democratic congresswoman from Michigan who ran for Senate and lost the primary to Abdul El-Sayed — pulled an about-face and endorsed his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, in one of the most crucial swing-state races in the country.
I’ll admit that when I first saw the endorsement, I was mad, frustrated, and more than a little worried. El-Sayed had pulled ahead in the polls, and I feared that Stevens backing Rogers (and pointedly refusing to back El-Sayed) could tilt the race.
But then staffers on Stevens’ Senate campaign and several in her congressional office resigned. Then the party turned on her. And then Stevens sat down with Anderson Cooper and, over the course of a 15-minute interview, torched her entire career and incinerated whatever credibility she had left. By the end, you get the sense that an endorsement from Haley Stevens might actually hurt Mike Rogers, because she flat-out bombed.
Why did she endorse Rogers on Sunday after telling Rep. Debbie Dingell on Saturday that she wouldn’t? Stevens never says, but the impression she leaves is that she’s a small, petty woman who couldn’t get over a slight (and, based on some posts that have since surfaced, she may have been influenced by her fiancé).
Either way, it was great television, if you enjoy watching a politician implode in real time.
