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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

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Michigan's campaign trail produced a flurry of endorsements this week: Abdul El-Sayed picked up Grand Rapids Mayor David LaGrand, Callie Barr got EMILYs List, Jeremy Moss landed UFCW Local 876, and Jocelyn Benson secured the Human Rights Campaign PAC.

On the Republican side, John James won the Michigan Farm Bureau's endorsement, while Cook Political Report shifted Michigan's 10th District from 'Leans Republican' to 'Toss Up,' favoring Democrat Christina Hines.

James also used a campaign interview to describe circumcision as something 'to submit to the Lord' and claimed members of the Democratic Socialists of America 'don't have a problem' with beheadings — neither of which was reportedly asked about.

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✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK

Nobody made John James say that; he volunteered a position on foreskin theology and a claim about socialists' tolerance for beheadings entirely on his own steam. When a gubernatorial candidate free-associates his way into that territory, the endorsements above start to look like the normal part of the story.

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