Daily Detroit News Byte

On today's Daily Detroit, we dig into a fresh Emerson College poll that shakes up the Michigan U.S. Senate race. If their numbers are right, the Democratic primary is suddenly a two-person contest, with Abdul El‑Sayed and Mallory McMorrow tied at the top and Haley Stevens slipping into third, even as more than a third of voters are still undecided. We talk through the big generational split driving those numbers, and reshaping the Democratic coalition, and why jobs and the economy are still the real deciders for that huge undecided block. We also touch on a few other topics in the poll. Then, we zoom out to a bigger question with deep Detroit roots: should this region become the "Arsenal of Democracy" again? A quiet Pentagon push to involve automakers in weapons production is colliding with the reality that we may be past peak car sales. We talk about what that could mean on the ground here. That means drones and cybersecurity to good-paying munitions jobs in old factory space, plus  the moral, emotion