Mayor Mike Duggan (Campaign photo)

The Wall Street Journal puts the national spotlight on Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s independent bid for governor in an upbeat article titled: “He Turned Around Detroit as a Democratic Mayor. Now He’s Ditching the Party.”

“The identity of the Democratic Party is we hate Republicans in general and we hate Donald Trump specifically,” Duggan, 67, tells The Wall Street Journal. “That is the only unifying principle of the Democratic Party today. They disagree on everything else.”

Duggan also talks about his father, the late U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan, a Republican, who died in 2020 at the age of 86.

“He was a proud Republican: stand up to the Russians, balance the budget, cut taxes. The Republican Party doesn’t stand for those things today. And the

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