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Detroit mayor launches independent 2026 run for Michigan governor
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced Wednesday that he will run for Michigan governor as an independent, breaking from the Democratic Party.
“I’m not running to be the Democrats’ governor or the Republicans’ governor — I’m running to be your governor,” Duggan, a lifelong Democrat, said in a video announcement.
The three-term mayor is the first to officially enter what is expected to be a crowded 2026 field vying to replace Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is term-limited from running again.
Duggan, who is the second-longest-serving mayor in the city’s history, announced last month that he would not seek a fourth mayoral term, telling the Detroit Free Press at the time that he “felt like I did what I set out to do.”
Duggan said in the video that as mayor, he “didn’t fit comfortably inside the dogma of either of the two political parties.” He added that “when the calls mounted to defund the police, I angered some in my own party” by approving increased overtime pay for Detroit Police officers in 2022.
“It’s clear to me that there are a lot of people in this country who are tired of both parties and tired of the system,” Duggan told The Associated Press in an interview. “And so I want to offer people a choice.”
Duggan entered the mayor’s office in 2013 as Detroit was reeling from bankruptcy, and is widely considered to have succeeded in his efforts to restore the city. He won reelection in 2021 with 76 percent of the vote.
“The political fighting and the nonsense that once held Detroit back is too often what we’re seeing in Michigan today,” Duggan said in the video, adding, “I’m going to see if I can change that by starting a campaign for governor, by having a conversation about whether it’s time for a whole new approach — a governor who’s an independent.”
SEATTLE — Some American fans walking toward Lumen Field on Friday morning were playfully jeering their Australian peers whenever they spotted a telltale yellow jersey. But a major driver of the local economy offered a kinder greeting to the visiting team.
Cranes in view of the stadium gates have been outfitted with the Australian flag and a WELCOME message from the Northwest Seaport Alliance, which manages the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, along with dockworkers’ union ILWU Local 19.
The seaport alliance and the labor union representing its workforce are mounting a similar display throughout the World Cup, rotating flags out to reflect the pair of teams that will face off next in Seattle. But keeping the Australians happy is a more urgent cause for Seattle harbor interests than, say, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Qatar.
Australia is one of the ports’ top trading partners, with the 14th largest source of container volume at the Port of Seattle, but ranks much higher when it comes to the dollar value of goods that come from there. (New Zealand, for example, sends more volume to Seattle than Australia but it’s worth only half as much.)
Meat, including beef and lamb, and minerals comprise the biggest categories of goods that Australia ships to the United States, although some of the most valuable exports — gold and pharmaceuticals — are more likely to land at Sea-Tac airport than via the harbor.
The U.S. and Australia have had a free-trade pact since 2005, although President Donald Trump’s tariff regime threatens to disrupt some trade flows. Australia is currently pushing back on its inclusion on an American list of countries alleged to use forced labor in its supply chains, which the U.S. Trade Representative is using as the basis to impose a 12.5 percent tariff.
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