Former Detroit mayor suspends independent bid for Michigan governor |
Former Detroit mayor suspends independent bid for Michigan governor
Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced Thursday that he is dropping his independent bid for the Michigan gubernatorial race just six months before the election, saying he had been “outspent” by the other candidates.
“We knew the independent route was filled with challenge,” Duggan wrote in a statement on his campaign website.
Duggan had raised more than $3.2 million in the first six months of his campaign, and more than 94 percent of donations came from Michigan, according to his campaign.
But the former Democrat could not keep up with the rigorous spending by his opponents, conceding that his campaign was “strongly outspent by the national Republican and Democratic parties this fall.”
He added that while he worked for over a year and a half to “try to change Michigan’s toxic party politics,” the mood of the country had shifted to favor Democrats due to frustrations over President Trump’s war........