Bridge Michigan’s monthly Lunch Break series continued Wednesday with a discussion of Michigan’s topsy turvy election season.

If you missed Wednesday’s chat, you can watch it on-demand below.

Bridge’s Capitol reporting team, Lauren Gibbons, Jonathan Oosting and Yue Stella Yu, participated in this roundtable discussion. Managing Editor Joel Kurth moderated. Topics included hotly contested races, ballot initiatives, the potential impact of the state’s new electoral maps and Supreme Court decisions, an opening on the Board of State Canvassers, candidate filing fiascos and more.

Related stories: 

• 2022 Michigan petition drives tracker: What to know about election proposals
• Who are the Republicans running against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer?
• How to be an informed voter | Bridge Michigan
• Michigan’s Guide to Elections 2022

Bridge’s Lunch Break monthly series focuses on timely topics facing our state. Previous discussions have included examinations tracking Michigan’s economic progress, how COVID has impacted Michigan’s K-12 students, Michigan’s new redistricting maps, Michigan’s eldercare crisis, and COVID mandates and K-12 education. 

Become a Bridge Club member today to regularly receive advance notification of what our nonprofit newsroom is planning and receive member-exclusive benefits — such as free Bridge event tickets, copies of our bimonthly Bridge Book Club selections, and more. Member support allows us to offer engagement opportunities like this Lunch Break series.  

To stay up-to-date on upcoming events and Bridge Michigan’s politics reporting, sign up for Bridge Michigan’s Politics Watch newsletter.

Stay tuned for an announcement of the next Lunch Break discussion and registration information.

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Watch Bridge’s Lunch Break about Michigan’s 2022 election

by Amber DeLind, Bridge Michigan
June 29, 2022

<h1>Watch Bridge’s Lunch Break about Michigan’s 2022 election</h1> <p class="byline">by Amber DeLind, Bridge Michigan <br />June 29, 2022</p> <p>Bridge Michigan’s monthly Lunch Break series continued Wednesday with a discussion of Michigan’s topsy turvy election season.</p> <p>If you missed Wednesday’s chat, you can watch it on-demand below.</p> <p><span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Bridge’s Capitol reporting team, Lauren Gibbons, Jonathan Oosting and Yue Stella Yu, participated in this roundtable discussion. Managing Editor Joel Kurth moderated. Topics included hotly contested races, ballot initiatives, the potential impact of the state’s new electoral maps and Supreme Court decisions, an opening on the Board of State Canvassers, candidate filing fiascos and more.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><strong>Related stories:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><strong><a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/2022-michigan-ballot-issues-tracker-what-know-about-election-proposals">2022 Michigan petition drives tracker: What to know about election proposals</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/who-are-republicans-running-against-michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer">Who are the Republicans running against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer?</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/how-be-informed-voter">How to be an informed voter | Bridge Michigan</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigans-guide-elections-2022">Michigan’s Guide to Elections 2022</a></strong></li> </ul> <ul class="wp-block-list"></ul> </p> <p>Bridge’s Lunch Break monthly series focuses on timely topics facing our state. Previous discussions have included examinations <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T16NsXUtXak&amp;list=PLwKfz_Zr9DDFE9YKQfQ_CHmlarQgAAHpa&amp;index=21">tracking Michigan’s economic progress</a>, how <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/center-michigan/watch-bridges-lunch-break-about-how-covid-impacts-michigan-k-12-students">COVID has impacted Michigan’s K-12 students</a>, <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/center-michigan/join-bridge-lunch-break-talk-how-covid-impacts-michigan-k-12-students">Michigan’s new redistricting maps</a>, <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/center-michigan/watch-bridges-lunch-break-about-michigans-eldercare-crisis">Michigan’s eldercare crisis</a>, and <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/center-michigan/watch-bridges-lunch-break-about-covid-mandates-k-12-education-michigan">COVID mandates and K-12 education</a>.&nbsp;</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"></ul> <p><a href="https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=bridge&amp;campaign=7011U000000aBBKQA2">Become a Bridge Club member today</a> to regularly receive advance notification of what our nonprofit newsroom is planning and receive member-exclusive benefits — such as free Bridge event tickets, copies of our bimonthly Bridge Book Club selections, and more. Member support allows us to offer engagement opportunities like this Lunch Break series.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>To stay up-to-date on upcoming events and Bridge Michigan’s politics reporting, <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/signup">sign up for Bridge Michigan’s Politics Watch newsletter</a>.</p> <p>Stay tuned for an announcement of the next Lunch Break discussion and registration information.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://bridgemi.com/center-michigan/watch-bridges-lunch-break-about-michigans-2022-election/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://bridgemi.com&quot;&gt;Bridge Michigan&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/bridgemi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/cropped-android-chrome-192x192-1.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://bridgemi.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=4127&amp;amp;ga4=G-1E2G9MSHX5&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://bridgemi.com/center-michigan/watch-bridges-lunch-break-about-michigans-2022-election/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bridgemi.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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