#1 is the best, #50 is the worst
The 24% wholesale tax was supposed to send $420 million a year to Michigan roads. James told marijuana executives at their own fundraiser he wants it gone, then said so publicly weeks later. He has not said how he would replace the road money.
America PAC has reported $5.1 million in independent spending this cycle. Eighteen Republicans with report cards on this site are the main beneficiaries — and nearly three-quarters of the money went to attack ads, not to making a case for them.
As a Michigan state senator running the corrections budget, Barrett inserted language stripping jail reimbursement from counties that limited cooperation with ICE. Kent County stood to lose $1.1 million a year, Wayne County $1.5 million. Michigan's own corrections department opposed it and the governor vetoed it.
Trump won Michigan with 49.7% of the vote to 48.3%, a margin of 1.4 points, with 74.9% of eligible voters turning out. (Full 2024 presidential results, state by state.)
7 of 15 — 47%. In the U.S. House, Michigan has 7 Republicans and 6 Democrats; in the Senate, 0 Republicans and 2 Democrats. (Source: Current members of Congress from Michigan, on Wikipedia.)
Michigan ranks #30 of 50. That is the average of its rank on the 17 measures in the report card above — violent crime, gun deaths, life expectancy, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality, household income, public education, voter turnout and more. #1 is the best state to live in, #50 the worst.
You can compare Michigan directly to other states on our Compare States page.
We grade Republican incumbents running in 2026 — U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and governors — on their record: how they voted, who funds them, and what it has cost Michigan. Democrats and independents do not get report cards.
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