Michigan Advance reporter Katherine Dailey: WCPT 820 Interview

Macomb County, I read recently that a woman who's part of the Republican Party structure in Macomb County, she got a lot of attention by saying that if Abdul El-Sayed got elected, he was going to try to impose Sharia law.

Macomb County must be an interesting place.

Yeah, it is.

And I'll caveat this by saying I'm not originally from Michigan.

I moved here about a year, a little over a year ago for work.

So I'm sure some Michigan natives would have some, uh, More in-depth insights than I might have.

But yeah, the Detroit suburbs are a really interesting place because you've got Wayne County, which is where actual Detroit proper is.

But then Oakland and Macomb County, some of the suburbs, especially the ones that are closer to the city, tend to lean a lot more blue.

The further you get out from the city, obviously some areas tend to be really, really red.

So it's definitely an interesting place.

region of the state, that metro Detroit, those suburbs.

Well, Michigan is a really interesting state in total.

I mean, we used to, Wisconsin used to be a weirder state, but as time goes on, Wisconsin is creeping into blue territory.

Michigan, man, you roll the dice.

It depends on where they land, what the politics are.

Yeah.

Yeah, though, I mean, we've had a couple of kind of bellwethers over the last year.

I think the main one, we had a special election in May for a state Senate seat.

The 35th Senate district had been vacant since Kristen McDonald Rivett, who's now a congresswoman.

She was in the state Senate.

Her seat was vacant.

They hosted a special election.

It happened in May.

Shedrick Green, who was the Democrat, ran away with it, blew the Republican out of the water.

the Republican candidate was a man named Jason Tunney.

Macomb County, I read recently that a woman who's part of the Republican Party structure in Macomb County, she got a lot of attention by saying that if Abdul El-Sayed got elected, he was going to try to impose Sharia law.

Macomb County must be an interesting place.

Yeah, it is.

And I'll caveat this by saying I'm not originally from Michigan.

I moved here about a year, a little over a year ago for work.

So I'm sure some Michigan natives would have some, uh, More in-depth insights than I might have.

But yeah, the Detroit suburbs are a really interesting place because you've got Wayne County, which is where actual Detroit proper is.

But then Oakland and Macomb County, some of the suburbs, especially the ones that are closer to the city, tend to lean a lot more blue.

The further you get out from the city, obviously some areas tend to be really, really red.

So it's definitely an interesting place.

region of the state, that metro Detroit, those suburbs.

Well, Michigan is a really interesting state in total.

I mean, we used to, Wisconsin used to be a weirder state, but as time goes on, Wisconsin is creeping into blue territory.

Michigan, man, you roll the dice.

It depends on where they land, what the politics are.

Yeah.

Yeah, though, I mean, we've had a couple of kind of bellwethers over the last year.

I think the main one, we had a special election in May for a state Senate seat.

The 35th Senate district had been vacant since Kristen McDonald Rivett, who's now a congresswoman.

She was in the state Senate.

Her seat was vacant.

They hosted a special election.

It happened in May.

Shedrick Green, who was the Democrat, ran away with it, blew the Republican out of the water.

the Republican candidate was a man named Jason Tunney.