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2026 candidates we're tracking in MI-9
Ray Pooley
Top priorities
- Bringing back good-paying manufacturing jobs
- Protecting land, water, and air
- Dignity wages, affordable healthcare, and corporate accountability
Per the campaign site.
About Ray Pooley
Ray Pooley is a third-generation manufacturer who works as a CNC machinist and programmer, per Michigan Advance. He has 15 years of hands-on manufacturing experience and campaigns on bringing manufacturing jobs back for blue-collar workers, per his campaign site. He appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.
Lisa McClain
Top priorities
- Lower taxes and reduced government regulation of the economy
- Securing the border
- Free-market solutions to make healthcare more affordable and accessible
Per the campaign site.
About Lisa McClain
Lisa McClain is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district and chair of the House Republican Conference; before her 2020 election she worked at American Express for 11 years and at the Hantz Group for two decades, per Michigan Advance. She appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.
About this race
Michigan's 9th Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The Michigan primary is Tuesday, August 4, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.