Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

UpdatedAug 24, 2026, 7:02 PM UTC
To election day71 days
Simulations200,000

Michigan 13th District

Currently held by a Democrat · open seat

Democrat
Donavan McKinney
>99.9%
Republican
T.P. Nykoriak
<0.1%
ForecastSafe D
Projected margin
D+56.4
80% range
D+41.2 to D+71.5
Partisan lean
D+44.6
Uncertainty multiplier
2.01×

The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.

How the estimate is built
Fundamentals 100.0%
Polling average
no polls
Fundamentals
D+56.9
Blended
D+56.9
Similar-race shift
−1.4
Polling

No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.

Fundamentals
Partisan lean
D+44.6
Elasticity
1.09
Incumbency
0.0
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+4.5
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
D+58.3

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