{"id":1062130,"date":"2021-11-28T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T19:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1062130"},"modified":"2021-11-28T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T19:44:00","slug":"exclusive-michigans-tom-barrett-democrat-elissa-slotkin-is-not-a-moderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-michigans-tom-barrett-democrat-elissa-slotkin-is-not-a-moderate\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Michigan\u2019s Tom Barrett: Democrat \u2018Elissa Slotkin Is Not a Moderate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-michigans-tom-barrett-democrat-elissa-slotkin-is-not-a-moderate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1062130&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1273015691-e1625160024726-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Republican candidate for Michigan\u2019s new Seventh Congressional District, state Sen.&nbsp;Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte), who will more than likely face off against Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) in the midterm elections next year, told <em>Breitbart News Saturday<\/em> that being elected to Congress would allow him to stand up against President Joe Biden\u2019s partisan agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett&nbsp;told host Matthew Boyle,&nbsp;Breitbart News\u2019s Washington political editor, during his appearance on SiriusXM\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Breitbart News Saturday <\/em>that he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/11\/15\/michigan-senator-tom-barrett-announces-us-house-campaign\/8620914002\/\">announced<\/a> he is running for Congress to put everything \u201con the line\u201d and to hopefully be elected to Congress where he will stand up to Biden in Washington, DC, as he retires from the military after 21 years of service.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.421686746988\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Check out our announcement video and visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2mFNroWMfn\">https:\/\/t.co\/2mFNroWMfn<\/a> to make a donation! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3jRfeiBhR6\">pic.twitter.com\/3jRfeiBhR6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Barrett (@barrettbrigade1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barrettbrigade1\/status\/1460257569696591873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Michigander said he finally had enough after&nbsp;Biden\u2019s \u201ccomplete failure in leadership\u201d during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/08\/26\/live-updates-suicide-bombing-outside-kabul-airport\/\">botched withdrawal<\/a> from Afghanistan \u2014 which resulted in the loss of life of 13 servicemembers \u2014 and the administration\u2019s vaccine mandate on the military, which he \u201cabsolutely morally cannot accept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barrett said he continuously stood up for&nbsp;individual rights and individual liberties across the globe&nbsp;since joining the military his senior year of high school. The Republican said after being in the military, he\u2019s not going to stand for individual rights and liberties being threatened in America. \u201cI can\u2019t fight Joe Biden as a helicopter pilot in the army here in Michigan. But I can fight him by going to Congress and standing up against his agenda there,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve put my whole adult life into the army, this isn\u2019t something I did three weeks ago on a whim, so that I could run for Congress, this has been my identity, and spend my life, it is really something that I feel very passionately about,\u201d Barrett said, about his choice to leave the military. \u201cIt didn\u2019t come easy to say; I\u2019m not going to do this anymore.&nbsp;This really was something that was an emotional decision for me. \u2026 I can\u2019t sit here and watch what\u2019s happening and not do something about it. And that\u2019s really what inspired me to run\u201d for Congress.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Barrett will most likely face off in the midterms against Slotkin, even though she has yet to announce her candidacy for the district since she currently represents&nbsp;Michigan\u2019s Eighth Congressional District before the new congressional lines are finalized due to redistricting happening across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin is a&nbsp;self-proclaimed moderate&nbsp;Democrat, even though she has voted <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/represent\/members\/P000197-nancy-pelosi\/compare-votes\/S001208-elissa-slotkin\/116\">96 percent<\/a> of the time on major votes with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the Biden-Harris-Pelosi partisan agenda, which&nbsp;Barrett is looking to stop.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The congresswoman, besides being&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/18\/vulnerable-democrats-hesitate-to-criticize-bidens-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\">hesitant<\/a> at the time&nbsp;to criticize&nbsp;Biden\u2019s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, has also voted for the&nbsp;$1.2 &nbsp;trillion infrastructure bill \u2014 which was signed into law by Biden \u2014 along with the Biden\u2019s&nbsp;\u201cmarquee legislation,\u201d the&nbsp;$1.75 trillion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/19\/house-passes-behemoth-build-back-better-act\/\">Build Back Better Act<\/a>, the Democrats\u2019 reconciliation infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Slotkin, one of the most vulnerable Democrats running for reelection next year, voted for the bill \u2014 which the Congressional Budget Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/18\/cbo-build-back-better-act-adds-750-billion-to-deficit-over-five-years\/\">found<\/a> would add billions to the American&nbsp;deficit \u2014 she claimed the bill was \u201cnot perfect.\u201d Barrett said everyone had felt the effects of the bill, putting a struggle on&nbsp;working-class and middle-class families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElissa Slotkin is not a moderate. She\u2019s been in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden this entire term, and we\u2019re gonna call her out on that. It\u2019s just not okay. And meanwhile, I\u2019m a conservative. I never pretend to paint myself as a moderate,\u201d&nbsp;he explained.&nbsp;\u201cBy dumping trillions more in spending is only going to make the situation worse, especially at a time where the administration is shutting down pipelines throughout America that\u2019s leading to absolutely astronomical increases in energy and gasoline, home heating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Saturday airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican candidate for Michigan\u2019s new Seventh Congressional District, state Sen.\u00a0Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte), who will more than likely face off against Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) in the midterm elections next &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}