Detroit Free Press
May 12, 2026
Todd Spangler
A new Michigan poll suggests former Wayne County and Detroit health director Abdul El-Sayed has the lead in the race to be the Democratic nominee for the state’s soon-to-be-open U.S. Senate seat.
In a poll released Monday, May 11, by Steve Mitchell of Mitchell Research & Communication in East Lansing, El-Sayed, of Ann Arbor, got 28% of the support from the likely Democratic primary voters who were surveyed.
Another new poll released Tuesday, May 12, indicated that Rogers appears to be slightly leading or tied with the Democrats in hypothetical head-to-head general elections matchups, with the Republican leading El-Sayed 44.7%-39.8%, Stevens 43.8%-41.5% and McMorrow 42.8%-40.7% among likely voters. For the poll, which was commissioned by the Detroit Regional Chamber and done by the Glengariff Group of Lansing, 600 likely November voters were surveyed by live operators; the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.