In the tightest election of his career, Congressman Fred Upton has won reelection for a 17th term in the U.S. House. Upton held off on a victory speech at Shadowland Pavilion in St. Joseph until close to 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, waiting on more numbers to come in from Kalamazoo and Allegan counties.
As Democrats took control of the U.S. House, he called for bipartisanship in the next term.
“As I heard on the campaign trail over and over, and today, too, forget if you have an R or a D next to your name. Let’s work it out. Let’s work together to take this poison out of politics and poison out of trying to govern and really figure out how it is to move that car forward to get to the destination that all of us want,” Upton told supporters to applause. “That’s who I am. I have never changed, and I’m not gonna change, and we’re pleased with the results tonight.”
