Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, the Republican nominee for governor, said that he regrets his behavior in a video from 1989 that appears to show him trying to flirt with a woman off camera as she sets up for an interview, CNN reports.

A new Detroit News poll finds Gretchen Whitmer (D) with a comfortable lead over Bill Schuette (R) in the Michigan governor’s race, 50% to 36%.

Two months before Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) told WZZM that “he is not endorsing any of the candidates to replace him. Not even fellow republican Bill Schuette.”

Said Snyder: “I’m staying out of politics. I’m governing.”

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) won’t say if he’ll endorse in governor’s race, or if he even likes GOP nominee Bill Schuette (R), the Detroit News reports.

Said Snyder: “I’m sticking to governing and less politics at this time.”

“Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette and former state Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer will compete to be Michigan’s next governor after winning party primary fights Tuesday night,” the Detroit News reports.

“Michigan voters chose experience in the gubernatorial race, an about face two years after helping elect President Trump and eight years after picking term-limited Gov. Rick Snyder, neither of whom had held political office.”

“Whitmer, who spent 14 years in the state Legislature, held off a late push by former Detroit health director Abdul El-Sayed, a favorite of the progressive left, and Ann Arbor Entrepreneur Shri Thanedar.”

The Intercept: “A Michigan gubernatorial candidate who has branded himself as the Bernie Sanders of the 2018 race privately mused about running as an independent or Republican just weeks before launching his campaign, according to four political consultants and one small business association representative he met with.”

“Shri Thanedar, a millionaire who has poured millions of dollars of his own money into the race, ultimately decided to run as a progressive Democrat. He is now first in some polls, eclipsing former state Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer and former Detroit Public Health chief Abdul El-Sayed, whose campaign is largely staffed by veterans of Sanders’s actual presidential campaign.”

Said one political consultant: “He came to us looking for advice about running for governor, and was obviously in the market for a consultant. We asked him what party he wanted to run from and he said he didn’t care. He said whichever side we thought he had the best chance to win on.”