WASHINGTON — Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin will run for Senate, she said Monday, opening up a key race in a battleground state.
“We all know America is going through something right now. We seem to be living crisis to crisis, but there are certain things that should be really simple,” Slotkin, 46, said in a video announcing her run. “We need a new generation of leaders that thinks differently, works harder and never forgets that we are public servants.”
Slotkin has used her past experience as a CIA analyst to focus on national security issues since she joined Congress in 2019. She also has focused on health care issues and in her announcement video Monday she spoke of her mother, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer while she didn’t have health insurance.
