11/02/2026
WOW: After Haley Stevens endorsed a Trump Republican two days before the election, within hours her own staff quit, her state party disowned her, and Anderson Cooper took her apart on live TV.
The Michigan congresswoman lost the Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed in August. Just days ago, she said she’d still vote for him.
Then on Sunday, she skipped a unity event with El-Sayed and Jim Clyburn, went to church with Republican Mike Rogers instead, and posted a video endorsing him.
Her chief of staff of eight years, Justin German, resigned that same morning along with many of her aides. He said the team was “shocked and heartbroken.”
Michigan Democratic Party chair Curtis Hertel announced she is not a member of the party, “nor will she be in the future.” Chuck Schumer called it a “despicable betrayal.”
Then she sat down with CNN.
Cooper asked one simple question over and over: what changed overnight? She never answered it.
When he pointed out that El-Sayed didn’t get any angrier between midnight and morning, she shot back that he “certainly wasn’t on the phone with me at midnight.”
Throughout the interview, the overwhelming feeling was that she's not well.
Later she asked him, “Was that a question, Anderson?” and accused him of being upset with her. Asked about her staff walking out, she said she’s in “transition.”
Fellow Michigan Democrat Debbie Dingell says Stevens assured her just hours before that no Republican endorsement was coming.
The only person who seems happy about any of this is Dear Leader, who said he’d “love to have her” in the Republican Party.
He can have her.
