Haley Stevens
D · U.S. Senate, Michigan · Tier 1/2
Tier 1/2, between “Firmly pro-Israel” and “Mainstream pro-Israel”
The pro-Israel candidate in the marquee Michigan Senate primary, which she lost to Abdul El-Sayed by about a point on Aug 4, 2026. She self-identifies as a 'proud pro-Israel Democrat' and once told a Hanukkah gathering that 'Israel comes to me in my dreams'; she rejects the genocide finding — “I don’t agree with that,” she told CNN when asked if it was a genocide — and signed the January 2024 letter whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s genocide charge. She was the pro-Israel establishment's flagship pick — AIPAC's United Democracy Project alone spent a record ~$30M in the race ($20.1M attacking El-Sayed, $10.5M promoting her), with total outside spending approaching $60M in the most expensive Democratic primary ever, and a DMFI endorsement — running explicitly as the pro-Israel option against Abdul El-Sayed (who calls Gaza a genocide and would end all aid) in what became a two-way race once Mallory McMorrow ended her campaign in July 2026. She was booed at the state Democratic convention over her Israel support. After losing the primary she backed El-Sayed, but in the campaign’s last week she pressed him over Israel: on CNN on October 28, 2026 she urged his campaign “to shut out the hate and to call it out,” and in an October 30 statement announcing a joint appearance with him and Rep. Jim Clyburn she said the Rebellion PAC ad supporting him “blames our close ally Israel for everything Michiganders cannot afford,” that the ad “dramatized” an argument he had made himself — “that Israel is the reason Michigan cannot afford schools, health care, and child care” — and that “I therefore expect him to apologize for those statements as well. … He can begin by getting Israel out of his explanation for everything Michigan cannot afford.”
A 1/2. She calls herself a “proud pro-Israel Democrat,” ran as the pro-Israel candidate in the 2026 Michigan Senate primary, and rejects the genocide finding (“I don’t agree with that”). Her own Israel legislation is two hostage resolutions: H.Res.793, calling on Hamas to release the hostages, which passed 414–0 in November 2023, and H.Res.413 (May 2025), which never left committee. Neither legislates on aid, arms or the conduct of the war. Her votes cross most of her party toward the pro-Israel end — the November 2023 Israel-only bill most Democrats opposed, the February 2024 standalone aid bill, the June 2024 ban on citing Gaza’s casualty figures, the 2025 ICC-sanctions bill and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill — and no concern of her own for Palestinian civilians has been found. Her 2024 letters sit toward the pro-Israel end too: she signed letters urging Speaker Johnson to bring the Senate’s aid package to an immediate vote (April), asking the Treasury and State Departments to designate and sanction UNRWA employees accused of taking part in the October 7 attacks (May), seeking a classified briefing on the Iranian government’s efforts to “promote and encourage anti-Israel protests” (July) and, as one of 12 Democrats among 107 signers, warning UN Secretary-General António Guterres that any downgrade of Israel’s standing at the General Assembly would bring a matching downgrade of U.S. support for the UN (October). Counter-case both ways: a 2, on her Nays on the 2024 bill forcing the paused bomb shipment, the 2024 ICC-sanctions bill and the Tlaib censure; a 1, if a campaign run on Israel and a resolution the House passed unanimously are read as leadership.
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