Where on Earth Is Haley Stevens?

Over the past few days, ecstatic Michigan Democrats on the Hill have been taking a lot of photos and selfies. It’s hard to find any pic of an elected or incoming Michigan official that doesn’t include either a grinning Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed or Representative-elect Donavan McKinney. It’s much harder to find outgoing Representative Haley Stevens alongside any of her soon-to-be-former colleagues.

On Tuesday, incoming members of the delegation as well as retiring Senator Gary Peters took a group pic during a breakfast meeting.

Missing from the photos was Stevens. That fits an emerging pattern for the outgoing congresswoman, who narrowly lost the Democratic nomination for Senate to El-Sayed and would go on to make a last-minute endorsement of former Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for Senate in Michigan. The endorsement, and Stevens’ hard-to-follow explanation for backing Rogers, essentially excommunicated her from Michigan Democratic Party circles. She hasn’t exactly kept a low profile but Stevens has been ducking out of events with fellow Michigan Democrats in D.C. or previously planned public appearances.

Instead, she hung out in the Republican cloakroom on Monday during House votes. She also wasn’t present with other congressional Democrats during an ill-fated vote on impeaching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Her office is empty after Stevens’ staff quit in protest over the Rogers endorsement.

Let’s remember, though. Michigan’s 2026 Senate race was one of the most acrimonious fights of the entire cycle. El-Sayed and, for instance, returning Representative Hillary Scholten aren’t exactly besties. But they’re both joining in on the group photos (like the one above).

When we reached Stevens by text about her absence from the breakfast, she said she wasn’t invited but there were no hard feelings.

“Without offense or expectation, I was not invited,” Stevens wrote in a text to Sources Say. “Believe it was for returning members with the outgoing Senator, note Shri Thanader [sic] and Kristen McDonald Rivet are also not featured.”

Fair enough, but Thanedar (who actually ran in a primary against El-Sayed once upon a time) and Rivet both endorsed El-Sayed, kept supporting him, and ended up at the breakfast. Peters actually supported Stevens in the primary before backing El-Sayed in the general election and was at the breakfast too.

It’s just one data point but there aren’t many indicators to counter the mounting evidence that Stevens won’t be invited to many more Michigan Democratic events in the near future.

It’s kind of like she’s Michigan’s very own version of Carmen Sandiego.