Huizenga said he wouldn't run for Michigan's open Senate seat, seemingly clearing the field for former Rep. Mike Rogers to be the GOP pick.

Updated at 1:34 p.m. U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Holland Township) announced today that he is out of the race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township). The Detroit News was first to report Huizenga’s decision,

A petition announced Monday would help push back against censorship in Michigan libraries and calls for increased legislative support to statewide catalogs. The Michigan Library Association is behind the effort,

Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) will not mount a campaign for Michigan’s open battleground Senate seat in 2026, allowing the GOP to avoid what would have been a bitter primary fight with the national party’s preferred candidate,

Rogers lost a close race for the Senate last year as Trump carried the battleground state in the presidential contest.

Republicans are starting to zero in on candidates for pivotal 2026 Senate races in Michigan, North Carolina, and Georgia.

The former director of Project 2025, Paul Dans, launched a Senate race against longtime incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Monday, saying he wants to bring Project 2025’s controversial right-wing agenda to the Senate—and becoming one of several further-right candidates now challenging latter-day Trump ally Graham.

The 35-year-old Saginaw County Democratic Party chairman joins Pamela Pugh and Chadwick E. Twillman in seeking the position left open when Kristen McDonald Rivet went to Congress in January.