Bill Huizenga

It was her 40th marathon run, finishing the 26-plus miles in just a little bit over four hours.

With the Dems poised to flip the open John James congressional seat and oust incumbents Tom Barrett and Bill Huizenga in other parts of Michigan, Democrats are eyeing a possible fourth congressional flip, with an aggressive challenge to First District Congressman Jack Bergman.

That's northern Michigan and Upper Peninsula, where Calibar just buried the GOP incumbent, who happens to live in Louisiana and not Michigan's Upper Peninsula, in third quarter fundraising.

It's hard for me, quite honestly, to see this district flip, regardless of how shitty an incumbent Bergman is.

The Congressional Fourth is my favorite this cycle, all the way out on Lake Michigan in a place where it's very, very Republican in general.

But Bill Huizenga, who's the congressperson from there, is in a tight race this year.

The money right now in that race is tied.

They each have $7 million left to spend that you would never imagine.

Take Michigan's 4th Congressional District, which Trump won three times in a row.

The Cook Political Report just moved the race in Michigan's 4th Congressional District between Democrat Sean McCann and Trump-backed incumbent Republican Bill Huizenga from lean Republican to toss-up.

Now, Pete Buttigieg has been busy lately.

We just heard from Rebecca Bennett.

He's there in New Jersey campaigning for her today.

Well, Buttigieg, who is a, a Michigan resident and voter, hit the campaign trail with Sean McCann in Kalamazoo earlier this week.

Back in the 2020s, what did you do to change it? And I wanna be able to say the reason things turned around, the reason you live in a country that has better rights and a stronger economy and cleaner air and water, and more pride and more respect around the world, and the kind of politics we can all believe in, is that we did what it took when the elections put the power in our hand, and we started in 2026 electing leaders like B- Sean McCann, retiring people like Bill Huizenga, and doing what it took to turn it around.

Joining us now is State Senator Sean McCann.

Similarly, when Coinbase linked Stand With Crypto endorsed thirty-nine candidates in twenty twenty-four, The Hill estimated prior to election day that thirty-two of them had a seventy-five percent or higher chance of winning.

Out of their list, the Fairshake network has so far spent the most on Republicans Bill Huizenga of Michigan, where they spent one point five million dollars, and French Hill of Arkansas, where they spent one point four million dollars.

It has spent around one million dollars apiece supporting Brian Steil, a Republican from Wisconsin, Janelle Bynum, a Democrat from Oregon, Derek Tran, a Democrat from California, and Steven Horsford, a Democrat from Nevada, and five hundred twelve thousand dollars each on Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat from New Jersey, and Pete Aguilar, a Democrat of California.

Most of the other endorsed candidates have so far received around seventy-five thousand dollars each from the network.

The financing package to pay for major renovations at two public housing developments in Benton Harbor has been finalized, clearing the way for the work to begin.

Congressman Bill Huizenga tells us just this week Fannie Mae signed the final loan paperwork, completing a patchwork of funding that will see two aging properties revitalized.

Direct federal investment, private sector investment, state investment, all totaling $51 million that is going into that, uh, uh, it's, it's Harbor Towers and Buss Avenue Apartments.

There's two, two sets of those apartments.