TILT-A-WHIRL

Carl Marlinga

While Michigan Democrats are eager to flip Michigan’s 10th Congressional district blue, Congressman John James (R-Shelby Township), who ran for Senate twice before prevailing in for the House of Representatives in 2022, has a national reputation as a fundraising machine. According to Roll Call, a newspaper and website following the goings-on of Congress, noted James had $2.3 million cash-on-hand at the end of 2023. They are now rating the district as solidly ‘Lean Republican’ from a previous rating of ‘Tilt Republican.’ Democrat Carl Marlinga (former judge and county prosecutor) has once again filed to run for this seat, as have six other candidates, including Anil Kumar, a member of the Wayne State University Board of Governors who in 2014 ran for another congressional district.