Makes no sense to poll the presidential race but not the Senate race, which is looking more and more like a potential tipping-point/bellwether race.
I'm not sure how MI will be the tipping point Senate race. It might vote right of AZ-SEN and maybe ME-SEN, but then it would still be the 49th seat for Democrats.
Contrary to popular belief, many of these states (MT, NC, MI, ME, etc.) aren’t actually guaranteed to vote for the same party for President and Senate just because it barely happened in 2016. James winning narrowly wouldn’t exactly tell me a lot about races like MT-SEN or NC-SEN, for instance. Split-ticket voting is still a thing.
Yes I could see both Biden and John James win Michigan.
You are absolutely correct about split ticket voting. In fact, if 2020 was shaping up to be a better year for the GOP my user name could well be "DuPage will vote for Curran" for Senate while voting for Biden.