Businessman Paul Mitchell won the Republican nomination in Michigan’s 10th congressional district to replace U.S. Rep. Candice Miller in Congress this fall.
Mitchell faces the Democratic nominee, Frank Accavitti.
The longest-serving active member of Congress, U.S. Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, beat back a Democratic challenge from Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey.
In the 1st district in northern Michigan, Republican Jack Bergman, a retired Marine general, won a huge upset over two more established candidates in the race to replace U.S. Rep. Dan Benishek, .
“Little House on the Prairie” actress Melissa Gilbert won the Democratic nomination in the 8th district, despite saying months ago she was leaving the race against U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop for health reasons. Democrats will seek to have her name removed from the ballot in November,
and replaced with that of Assistant Macomb County Prosecutor Suzanna Shkreli.
