SLOTKIN IN 2028?

Here’s a question we are hearing on a regular basis nowadays. Michigan U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D) seems to be everywhere lately, or as writers from Politico Playbook said, she grabbed the spotlight as the Democrat’s person to give the party response to Donald Trump after the joint session of Congress early this year and she never left the limelight. She has been active legislatively of late but is also traversing the country attempting to figure out how to rebuild the Democratic Party. In Kansas City, Missouri recently, with Democratic Mayor Quinton Lucas, she worked with a conference table of low-propensity voters to further assess where the political party went off track. Playbook asked the former House member and CIA analyst if she was positioning for the 2028 campaign for president. She told Playbook: “It’s funny: you come to the Midwest, and people think that that’s an automatic signal...Honestly, I just got to the Senate, like, eight seconds ago. I am interested in leadership that adapts to the 21st century and adapts to the president’s style of doing things. It need not be me who leads that charge, but I’m looking for people who are ready to be partners in that attempt.” Not sure we heard the word ‘no’ in that response.

Elissa Slotkin