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Douglas P. Marsh
Douglas P. Marsh (Green Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Michigan. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Marsh completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Douglas Marsh was born in Traverse City, Michigan. Marsh earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 2006. His career experience includes working as a journalist, educator, firefighter, landscaper, ski patroller, and coal passer.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: United States Senate election in Michigan, 2024
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Michigan
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Michigan on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Elissa Slotkin (D) | 48.6 | 2,712,686 |
 | Mike Rogers (R) | 48.3 | 2,693,680 | |
 | Joseph Solis-Mullen (L)  | 1.0 | 56,697 | |
 | Douglas P. Marsh (G) | 1.0 | 53,978 | |
 | Dave Stein (U.S. Taxpayers Party) | 0.7 | 41,363 | |
 | Doug Dern (Natural Law Party) | 0.3 | 18,779 | |
 | Valerie Willis (U.S. Taxpayers Party) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 2 | |
| James Chapman (R) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 1 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 4 | ||
| Total votes: 5,577,190 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- James Frizzell (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Michigan
Elissa Slotkin defeated Hill Harper in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Michigan on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Elissa Slotkin | 76.3 | 712,791 |
 | Hill Harper | 23.7 | 221,053 | |
| Total votes: 933,844 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Pamela Pugh (D)
- Nasser Beydoun (D)
- Leslie Love (D)
- Zack Burns (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Michigan
Mike Rogers defeated Justin Amash, Sherry O'Donnell, and Sandy Pensler in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Michigan on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Rogers | 63.2 | 555,766 |
 | Justin Amash | 15.6 | 137,565 | |
 | Sherry O'Donnell | 12.1 | 106,466 | |
 | Sandy Pensler | 9.1 | 79,772 | |
| Total votes: 879,569 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- J.D. Wilson (R)
- Sharon Savage (R)
- Michael Hoover (R)
- Bensson Samuel (R)
- Alexandria Taylor (R)
- Peter Meijer (R)
- James Craig (R)
- Nikki Snyder (R)
- Rebekah Curran (R)
- Glenn Wilson (R)
Green convention
Green convention for U.S. Senate Michigan
Douglas P. Marsh advanced from the Green convention for U.S. Senate Michigan on June 15, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Douglas P. Marsh (G) |
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for U.S. Senate Michigan
Joseph Solis-Mullen advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. Senate Michigan on July 20, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Joseph Solis-Mullen (L) |
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Natural Law Party convention
Natural Law Party convention for U.S. Senate Michigan
Doug Dern advanced from the Natural Law Party convention for U.S. Senate Michigan on April 17, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Doug Dern (Natural Law Party) |
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U.S. Taxpayers Party convention
U.S. Taxpayers Party convention for U.S. Senate Michigan
Dave Stein advanced from the U.S. Taxpayers Party convention for U.S. Senate Michigan on July 27, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Dave Stein (U.S. Taxpayers Party) |
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Marsh in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Douglas P. Marsh completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Marsh's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I'm a journalist, husband, and father who was born in 1984 in Traverse City. My first job was as a day laborer for the 1998 cherry harvest when I was 13.
I kept working full-time in the summers and started working part-time as soon as I was able to drive a car. I worked in many industries, including restaurants, ski resorts, construction, landscaping, and in professional office environments.
I earned my degree in philosophy at the University of Michigan in 2006. History and political theory were areas of particular focus and emphasis. Several years of intense policy and geopolitical analysis as a participant and then later a coach/judge in interscholastic competitive debate also were a big influence on my thinking.
In 2013 I moved abroad and lectured at a university in Southeast Asia for five years. I married a woman from a humble farming family and we had twin girls in 2017. After losing one at the age of four months after a painful struggle with a major heart defect, we came to the United States as a family in 2018. My wife, then a green card holder, went on to achieve U.S. citizenship two and a half years later.
In 2021 I entered the field of community journalism and took up volunteer firefighting the next year. My time in education, journalism, and volunteer efforts has been a process of learning how to act locally while thinking globally.
I am interested in building people-power from below. This is a grassroots campaign with no PACs. I don't want $, I want change.- CEASEFIRE. Seek diplomatic solutions. Stop the flow of weapons and funds to conflict zones and end practices of proxy war and covert, undemocratic regime change
- Single-payer healthcare - the insurance, pharma, and related profit-driven "sick-care" cartels must be stopped
- Stop Line 5 and the Line 5 Tunnel - pivot to full investment in sustainable energy and infrastructure
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 10, 2024
