Democrats Hold A Critical Senate Seat In A Politically Critical State
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Democrat Elissa Slotkin prevailed in Michigan by defending abortion rights, working to lower drug prices and opposing Donald Trump.
Democrat Elissa Slotkin is projected to win the U.S. Senate race in Michigan, preserving her party’s control of a tightly contested open seat.
Slotkin is a rising star in the Democratic Party, a former intelligence officer who has been in the U.S. House since 2019. She defeated Republican Mike Rogers, who had served seven terms in the House before leaving Congress in 2015.
Democratic leaders had rallied around Slotkin last year as their choice to succeed the retiring Democratic incumbent, Debbie Stabenow, in no small part because Michigan is a closely divided state and Slotkin had a history of winning over independent and Republican-leaning voters.
Slotkin’s win would appear to validate that logic.
The Michigan Senate campaign played out much like the presidential race did, with Rogers blaming Slotkin and the Democrats for high consumer prices and for a (temporary) spike in illegal border crossings. He also frequently invoked transgender people as a political issue on the campaign trail and called for banning trans women from women’s sports and bathrooms.
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