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The 2024 United States Senate election in Michigan will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect a Class I member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Michigan. It will be held concurrently with the 2024 United States presidential election, other elections to the United States Senate, other elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. Primary elections will take place on August 6, 2024. Incumbent Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow was first elected in 2000, defeating incumbent Republican Spencer Abraham. Stabenow was most recently re-elected in 2018 with 52.3% of the vote and announced on January 5, 2023 that she would not seek a fifth term in office. This will be the first open race for this seat since 1994, which was the only time since 1972 that Republicans won a Michigan U.S. Senate race. Background A swing state, Michigan is considered to be a purple to slightly blue state at the federal level, with Joe Biden carrying Michigan by 2.8 percentage points at the 2020 presidential election. However, Democrats have seen much more success in recent years in the state. Democrats currently control both U.S. Senate seats, seven of 13 of the U.S. House congressional delegation, the minimum majority in the Michigan Senate, and all statewide offices. This race is considered to be competitive given the state's nearly even partisan lean and that there is no incumbent; however, most analysts consider the race leaning towards the Democrats. In-fighting among Michigan Republicans after the 2022 elections left the state party poor in funding for the U.S. Senate race and defaulting on a bank loan. The MIGOP also failed to meet campaign finance reporting deadlines. Democratic primary Candidates Declared Nasser Beydoun, businessman and former executive director of the Arab American Chamber of Commerce Hill Harper, actor and former member of the President's Cancer Panel Elissa Slotkin, U.S. representative for Michigan's 7th congressional district (2019–present) Withdrawn Zack Burns, attorney and scientist Leslie Love, former member of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission (2022–2023) and former state representative for the 10th district (2014–2020) Pamela Pugh, president of the Michigan State Board of Education (2015–present) (running for U.S. House) Declined Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State (2019–present) Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Secretary of Transportation (2021–present), former mayor of South Bend, Indiana (2012–2020), and candidate for President of the United States in 2020 Debbie Dingell, U.S. representative for Michigan's 6th congressional district (2015–present) (running for re-election) Mike Duggan, Mayor of Detroit (2014–present) Abdul El-Sayed, CNN contributor, former executive director of the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion, and candidate for Governor of Michigan in 2018 Garlin Gilchrist, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (2019–present) Dan Kildee, U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district (2013–present) (endorsed Slotkin) Andy Levin, former U.S. representative for Michigan's 9th congressional district (2019–2023) Karen McDonald, Oakland County Prosecutor (2021–present) Mallory McMorrow, state senator for the 8th district (2019–present) (endorsed Slotkin) Dana Nessel, Michigan Attorney General (2019–present) Hillary Scholten, U.S. representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district (2023–present) (running for re-election, endorsed Slotkin) Debbie Stabenow, incumbent U.S. senator (2001–present) Haley Stevens, U.S. representative for Michigan's 11th congressional district (2019–present) (running for re-election, endorsed Slotkin) Shri Thanedar, U.S. representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district (2023–present) (running for re-election) Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan (2019–present) Bribery allegations In November 2023, actor and Democratic Senate candidate Hill Harper gained attention after Politico reported that he had declined an offer of $20 million in campaign contributions from former Motown Motion Picture Studios owner Linden Nelson that would have been contingent upon him dropping out of the Senate race and mounting a primary challenge against U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib. Prior to the announcement, Harper had supported a "humanitarian ceasefire" and later reiterated his support for an extension to the 2023 Israel–Hamas ceasefire. AIPAC spokesperson Marshall Wittmann replied to the matter stating that it "was absolutely not involved in any way in this matter. Also, our records indicate that [Nelson] has not contributed to AIPAC in over a decade." Later that same month, fellow Democratic Senate candidate Nasser Beydoun alleged that former Michigan Democratic Party chair Lon Johnson had approached him with an identical offer to drop out of the Senate race and primary Tlaib, despite Beydoun's publicly pro-Palestinian stance. Johnson repeatedly denied the claims, saying, "that's just crazy. I didn't offer him $20 million, or any other amount of money, to run against Rashida. That's insane." Had either candidate accepted the alleged donation offer, Campaign Legal Center federal reform director Saurav Ghosh said any potential coordination between a candidate and a donor with such amounts of financing would be illegal, and "could thus qualify as an excessive contribution". Meanwhile, Michigan Campaign Finance Network executive director Nick Pigeon said that such overtures, if true, would "appear to violate campaign finance restrictions on coordination between independent expenditures and a candidate committee", albeit rarely enforced. Endorsements Fundraising Elissa Slotkin has led the field in fundraising with nearly $8.9 million for her Senate campaign as of October 2023. By mid-August 2023, she had raised nearly $6 million for her Senate campaign. Slotkin received more than $35,000 from executives of the studios involved in the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike and the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, including more than $26,000 in contributions from Disney executives, $2,500 from a Sony Pictures film executive, and $2,250 from an executive vice president for Paramount Pictures. For the first quarter of 2024, Slotkin led fundraising on the Democratic side with contributions to her campaign of $4.3 million. Hill Harper reported contributions totaling $358.690. Polling Results Republican primary Candidates Declared Justin Amash, former U.S. representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district (2011–2021) Sherry O'Donnell, physician and candidate for Michigan's 5th congressional district in 2022 Sandy Pensler, former Wayne County commissioner and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2018 Mike Rogers, former U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district (2001–2015) Withdrawn James Craig, former chief of the Detroit Police Department (2013–2021) and disqualified candidate for Governor of Michigan in 2022 (endorsed.... Discover the Melissa Senate popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Melissa Senate books.