Detroit Free Press
April 28, 2026
Todd Spangler
Warning: If you’re closely watching the prospects of the Democrats battling for Michigan’s U.S. Senate nomination, the following story could give you whiplash.
A new independent poll — this one done by the Glengariff Group polling firm in Lansing for the Detroit Regional Chamber and released April 28th — shows U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens with 24.9% support, compared to 22.9% for former Wayne County and Detroit health director Abdul El-Sayed and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow trailing them at 16%.
With a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points, that means that, if the poll is accurate, Stevens may have the slightest of leads but that she and El-Sayed are roughly tied for the lead.
That might not seem like a surprise if you’re not paying too much attention to a primary still more than three months away. But if you are attuned to what’s happening in a race that could have national implications, you probably already know that two weeks ago, a poll by Emerson College of Boston and WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids had something of a flipped result: McMorrow and El-Sayed led, each having 24% of the support; Stevens trailed with 13%.
The Real Clear Politics average of polls actually shows El-Sayed with the slimmest of leads right now but all three right around 20% support, indicating a too-close-to-call contest.