Democrat state Rep. Betsy Coffia won a tough reelection campaign in a year that favored Republicans. She explains how she did it, and how she thinks her party needs to change.
Simon D. Schuster
Simon D. Schuster is a Capitol Reporter for Bridge Michigan. Simon joined Bridge Michigan in 2024 after working as MLive's senior political reporter and later covering politics on their investigative team. He spent three years tracking the influence of political money in Michigan as executive director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, a nonpartisan nonprofit. A Michigan native, Simon received a bachelor's and a master of public policy from Michigan State University, where he was a policy fellow at the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research. Outside of work you'll find him in Detroit, backpacking northern Michigan or visiting his fiancée in Scandinavia. He lives in Lansing.
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Q&A: What’s next on GOP ‘mission’ after flipping the Michigan House
State Rep. Bill Schuette helped lead a winning campaign for House Republicans. He explains how — and how the party aims to make good on promises with Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer still in office.
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Oxford parents renew call for state probe of mass school shooting
With the third anniversary of the school shooting approaching, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she still hasn’t received the cooperation from local officials necessary to begin an outside inquiry.
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Has Michigan governor race begun? Duggan spurs speculation. Here's who might run
One week after the 2024 election, jockeying for Michigan’s 2026 gubernatorial election has already begun.
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‘Dark money’ helped Democrats dominate Michigan Supreme Court races
The biggest spender in this year’s Michigan Supreme Court election? An out-of-state group that doesn’t disclose donors.
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How despair over Gaza war helped Donald Trump win Dearborn. It’s complicated
What started as a protest movement leads Michigan’s largest Arab-American enclave to give its vote to a Republican who once said Israel should ‘finish the job’ in Gaza.
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Donald Trump wins Michigan, White House as 'blue wall' collapses
Donald Trump wins Michigan, narrowly beating Kamala Harris to secure the state’s 15 electoral votes.
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Donald Trump caps campaign in Michigan, predicting ‘greatest victory’ ever
The former president concluded his latest campaign in Grand Rapids, as he did in 2016 and 2020. ‘It’s very sad, in a way,’ he said. ‘We’ve done all these, and this is the last one.’
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Kamala Harris targets youth vote in final Michigan campaign stop: 'I see your power’
‘The momentum is on our side,’ Harris said at Michigan State University.
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Donald Trump claims he has ‘overwhelming support’ from Muslims in Michigan
Trump made a play for Muslim American votes with a stop in Dearborn, then railed against immigration, electric vehicles and the state of the economy — while deriding Harris and Biden — at a rally in Warren.