MI-GOV: New poll finds Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan (I) will draw votes from both Democrats, Republicans [View all]
Lansing — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, a former Democrat who's running to be Michigan's governor as an independent, will draw a similar amount of support from both Democrats and Republicans, according to a statewide poll of registered voters released Tuesday.
The results of the survey, commissioned by the Detroit Regional Chamber, debuted 17 months before the November 2026 election and on the first day of the chamber's annual conference on Mackinac Island.
The findings suggested that Michigan Democrats still have a path to win the governor's office even with Duggan, the mayor of the state's largest city — a Democratic stronghold — on the ballot.
In a hypothetical three-way contest, Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson of Detroit got 34.5%, Republican U.S. Rep. John James of Shelby Township received 34%, and Duggan netted 21.5%, according to the May 5-8 poll. The remaining 9.4% of voters surveyed were undecided. The poll was conducted by the Lansing-based Glengariff Group and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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