Will Progressive State Rep Donavan McKinney Rid Congress Of AIPAC Shill Shri Thanedar In Detroit?

Last year Kamala beat Trump in MI-13 with 69.4% of the vote— her best and Trump’s worst— performance in the state. The local congressman, be-wigged Shri Thanedar, underperformed Kamala by about a point— one of the only Democratic incumbents who didn’t surpass her. In Michigan, in fact, Thanedar was the only Democrat who did worse than Kamala in their districts:

3rd district 

• Hillary Scholten- 53.7%

• Kamala- 52.9%

6th district

• Debbie Dingell- 62.0%

• Kamala- 60.1%

8th district

• Kristen Rivet- 51.3%

• Kamala- 48.2%

11th district

• Haley Stevens- 58.2%

• Kamala- 57.1%

12th district

• Rashida Tlaib- 69.7%

• Kamala- 66.4%

He did poorly in the primary last year as well, scoring just 54.9% against two under-funded candidates. He reported spending $5,305,400 of his own money in the race, although he likely spent close to $8 million of his own.

Next year he may have any even tougher primary fight against two state legislators, Rep. Donavan McKinney who’s coming at him from the left and state Sen. Adam Hollier, more of an establishment centrist kind of guy. McKinney is being backed by Justice Democrats. He's their first and so far, their only 2026 candidate.

Sounding pretty cocky, Thanedar, an AIPAC-Democrat, told the media yesterday that “Voters have a choice between my bold, strong and proven leadership, or Hollier’s incompetence, or McKinney’s inexperience. I’m confident that my constituents in Michigan 13 will send me back to Congress again.” But… he’s not taking any chances and on Monday he filed 7 performative articles of impeachment against the extremely unpopular Trump.