Race for Macomb County prosecutor has parallels with Harris vs. Trump

It’s a hotly contested race featuring a former female prosecutor and a man credibly accused of sexual harassment, with the future of law and order on the ballot.

No, it’s not the presidential race.

But that description fits the contest for Macomb County prosecutor that pits incumbent Republican Pete Lucido, a former state senator, against Democratic challenger Christina Hines, a former prosecutor in both Wayne and Washtenaw counties, who now serves as an adjunct law professor at Wayne State University.

“A lot of people have kind of commented on the fact that I have a very similar race that Kamala Harris does,“ Hines told the Michigan Advance. “It’s a younger prosecutor who actually has this experience, who’s running against a MAGA Republican that shouldn’t have been in office in the first place.”

Lucido won election to the post in 2020, with former President Donald Trump scoring big at the top of the ticket in Macomb County. Although Lucido was weighed down by considerable controversy coming into the office — and has courted it since — he’s still considered the favorite in a county that’s grown redder and Trump will, once again, be on the ballot.



https://michiganadvance.com/2024/09/22/race-for-macomb-county-prosecutor-has-parallels-with-harris-vs-trump/