The top Black leaders who endorsed Rep. Shri Thanedar’s primary challenger aren’t withdrawing their support just yet despite allegations that his campaign forged signatures in nomination petition documents.
“When you endorse someone, you endorse them because you feel that they are qualified to do the job and as someone that you would welcome to be your colleague. I don’t think that has changed [for me],” former Rep. Brenda Lawrence, one of Adam Hollier’s early endorsers, told NOTUS. “I really feel Hollier would be a better member of Congress than Shri.”
Thanedar — Detroit’s first non-Black representative in almost 70 years — is expected to face Hollier in the August Democratic primary in Michigan. It was already a dramatic race, thanks to some of Thanedar’s colleagues backing his primary challenger in an effort to elect a Black candidate to the seat.