Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney, the strongest challenger Shri Thanedar has faced in three House races, was leading by single digits. So was Abdul El-Sayed, whose Michigan Senate campaign radiated confidence in the final weeks, as public and private polling showed him besting Rep. Haley Stevens by close to 20 points. Michigan Gov. No; “electability” wasn’t a question in Denver and New York, but it was in Michigan, and Stevens and her allies (and their allied PACs) did convince some late-deciding Democrats that El-Sayed was risky. Kansas voters didn’t see a need to elect judges, who would almost always be conservatives; they’ve been willing to elect Democratic governors as bulwarks against the GOP legislature.