(CBS DETROIT) — With the ink barely dry on stories about Election 2024, a growing cadre of folks, including Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel, are looking at the evolving political landscape.
Hackel, the former Macomb County Sheriff, said the results of the 2024 contest are giving him more confidence than ever that he has the right stuff and resumé to be governor. It’s the second time he’s talked about running for the job. In 2017, he toyed with the idea, but it didn’t go very far.
“Hackel didn’t follow through after the Democratic powers threw their support behind Gretchen Whitmer,” who would go on to win, said Ed Sarpolus, pollster and executive director of Target Insyght, who also appeared on this week’s Michigan Matters…