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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Democratic senator sounds alarm on party’s failures: ‘We don’t act as a team’

a woman seated in a chair on stage talks with another woman seated in a chair
Elissa Slotkin talks with Neera Tanden at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC on Thursday. Photograph: Kevin Wolf/AP

A Democratic senator has sounded the alarm about her own party’s failings, urging colleagues to “slaughter some sacred cows” if they want to combat Donald Trump and win back power.

Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan castigated fellow Democrats for losing their “alpha energy” and “bravado”, being “scared” to enforce immigration rules, taking an “elitist” approach to the climate crisis and having “a bias towards navel gazing”. She painted a bleak picture of a leaderless party pulling in different directions.

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