New map scrambles Michigan House delegation – By Stephanie Akin (Roll Call) / December 29, 2021
Stevens, Levin will face off in primary, and they may not be the only ones
Michigan’s House delegation was left scrambling Wednesday after the state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission finalized new congressional maps that eliminated one district while putting eight incumbents in four shared districts and creating three new open seats.
In the hours after the map was released Tuesday evening several incumbents – including Democrats Elissa Slotkin and Debbie Dingell and Republican John Moolenaar – announced they would move to run in districts where they faced better odds or to avoid running against one of their colleagues.
Democrat Haley Stevens, who has been on Republican target lists for the last two cycles, announced she would move to the newly drawn 11th District to face Andy Levin, a scion of one of the state’s best-known political dynasties, in what is sure to be an expensive and hotly contested Democratic primary. Meanwhile, two incumbents — Republican Fred Upton and Democrat Brenda Lawrence — left their plans open-ended. That led to speculation about whether they would retire, move to new districts, or — in Upton’s case — set up another member-on-member primary against Rep. Bill Huizenga.
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