He’s raised record amounts of money, more than $3 million in all, with lots of help from Detroit’s business community. In most polls, he has a commanding two-to-one lead over rival Benny Napoleon. Since then his campaign has seemingly been on cruise control. He was thrown off over a technicality because he hadn’t lived in Detroit for a full year before filing his ballot petitions.īut Duggan surprised many by winning handily as a write-in candidate. The frontrunner, Duggan, wasn’t even on the primary ballot. If the polls are to be believed, the race between Mike Duggan and Benny Napoleon isn’t even close.īut that hasn’t stopped the race from getting expensive-or nasty.