{"id":88552,"date":"2026-04-19T14:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-a-must-win-mi-senate-race-just-became-a-gop-opening\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:44:04","slug":"how-a-must-win-mi-senate-race-just-became-a-gop-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-a-must-win-mi-senate-race-just-became-a-gop-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"How a must-win MI Senate race just became a GOP opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s Manu Raju reports from Michigan where a Democratic primary race for a key Senate seat is dividing the party <!--more--> over issues like Israel, immigration and party leadership on Capitol Hill. <\/p>\n<p>Michigan\u2019s open Senate seat is now emerging as a GOP hedge against a potential takeover for Democrats, who need to net four seats to flip the chamber. <\/p>\n<p>Losing Michigan would make the Democrats\u2019 task almost impossible, a major reason why a leading Republican outside group just announced plans to pour $45 million into the state \u2013 more than any other pickup opportunity \u2013 to boost former Rep. Mike Rogers, the likely GOP nominee. <\/p>\n<p>0:00 Who are the Michigan candidates trying to help Dems flip the senate?<br \/>\n2:40 Bernie Sanders-endorsed Abdul El-Sayed makes his pitch<br \/>\n4:20 Can one of the more moderate Democratic candidates win?<br \/>\n8:50 Political reporter breaks down the Michigan senate race <\/p>\n<p>Watch more CNN here: <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.it\/4kh5RPe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/cnn.it\/4kh5RPe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Michgan #MidtermElections #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s Manu Raju reports from Michigan where a Democratic primary race for a key Senate seat is dividing the party<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}