Allison R. Donahue, Michigan Advance

Republican Secretary of State nominee Kristina Karamo continues to push baseless claims about election fraud in the state, telling supporters “there is more to come.”

Karamo has yet to concede from the race after losing Tuesday’s election to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson by 14 points — the largest margin of any top statewide race.

Democrats held onto all three top statewide offices in Michigan. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer beat GOP gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon and Attorney General Dana Nessel beat Republican Matt DePerno. Both DePerno and Dixon have both conceded. ...

The Associated Press called the election just after 1 a.m. Wednesday.

According to White House pool reports, President Joe Biden made a call to Whitmer to congratulate her after Fox News called the race for her hours before. The governor is in Detroit for Democrats’ election party.

“We are waiting for some final numbers … But we are feeling damn good about where we are headed,” Whitmer said to supporters during her election night watch party. ...

With just days before the Tuesday election, that is the message advocates for the ballot proposal to codify Roe-era abortion rights in the Michigan Constitution are trying to spread to voters who may be torn between their political party and their beliefs on abortion.

“It was just a few short years ago that I was advising the very people in the groups who are opposing Proposal 3 today. Those people are deliberately lying about what Proposal 3 will do to create fear among voters,” Timmer said. “And I know that because I sat in the room and helped them create messages like this and campaigns like this in the past. I know the strategy, I know the tactics and I know exactly what they’re doing.”

Michigan currently has a 1931 law criminalizing abortion, with no exceptions for rape, incest and the mother’s health, that could have gone into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade. That law is temporarily blocked amid lawsuits from both Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Planned Parenthood of Michigan. ...

Three resolutions celebrating the state’s Hispanic, Maltese-American and deaf communities were sent to a House committee Wednesday where they will likely sit and wilt.

Such nonbinding resolutions are typically considered non-controversial and pass on bipartisan votes. But Wednesday’s session in the GOP-controlled House, the first in months, turned long and contentious as the Nov. 8 election approaches.

“This is just another attack on marginalized communities that the Republicans are using their power to block the mere celebration of marginalized communities,” State Rep. Darrin Camilleri (D-Brownstown Twp.) told the Advance. ...

After months of silence on the multiple attempts in the courts to protect abortion rights in Michigan, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that voters should get the chance to decide if abortion rights should be enshrined in the state Constitution.

The question in front of the state’s highest court was whether the Board of State Canvassers acted outside of its ministerial power when members deadlocked last week on whether or not to certify the Reproductive Freedom for All (RFFA) ballot proposal summary.

The two Republicans on the evenly split board voted against certifying the proposal because of a spacing error that squished together some words in the proposal language. Opponents who challenged the proposal argued that the proposal is “gibberish,” but advocates for the proposal say that the language is still legible and state election law does not regulate spacing. ...