{"id":1862163,"date":"2023-02-27T10:51:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T15:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1862163"},"modified":"2023-02-27T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T15:52:29","slug":"michigan-dem-announces-run-for-retiring-sen-debbie-stabenows-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-dem-announces-run-for-retiring-sen-debbie-stabenows-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Dem Announces Run For Retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow\u2019s Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fmichigan-dem-announces-run-for-retiring-sen-debbie-stabenows-seat%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=1862163&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-->\n<p>Rep. Elissa (D-MI), entered the 2024 Senate race hoping to challenge 72-year-old Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/debbie-stabenow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debbie Stabenow<\/a> (D-MI), said that she will not run for re-election next election.<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin, a former CIA Analyst who is currently in Congress since 2019, won a close electoral victory in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan<\/a>The 7th district was redrawn in the 2022 midterms. After Stabenow&#8217;s announcement in January that she would be retiring at the end her term, the Michigan Democrat was among many names being considered for Senate nominations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, we all know America is going through something right now,&#8221; Slotkin made these remarks in Monday&#8217;s announcement video. &#8220;We seem to be living crisis to crisis, but there are certain things that should be really simple like living a middle-class life in the state that invented the middle class.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin called for greater American manufacturing and the protection of children from what&#8217;s not &#8220;truly harming them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is why I&#8217;m running for the United States Senate. We need a new generation of leaders that thinks differently, works harder, and never forgets that we are public servants.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today I am announcing my candidacy to be Michigan&#8217;s next U.S. Senator. Senator.<\/p>\n<p>We need a new generation of leaders that thinks differently, works harder, and never forgets that we are *public servants* <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L8cLgEUwnA\">pic.twitter.com\/L8cLgEUwnA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elissa Slotkin (@ElissaSlotkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElissaSlotkin\/status\/1630191500188348420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democrats will need to keep the open Senate seat in the purple states. The party must defend 23 out of 34 seats in 2024. CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/27\/politics\/elissa-slotkin-debbie-stabenow\/index.html\">reported<\/a>. Numerous high-profile Republicans and Democrats have been mentioned as possible candidates. Nikki Snyder (a Republican member of the State Board of Education) was the first to apply. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crainsdetroit.com\/politics-policy\/nikki-snyder-announces-run-us-senate-michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Announce<\/a> An announcement was made earlier in the month about a bid to fill the Senate seat. Slotkin is the first Democrat officially to announce a run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Top of the Democratic list were Gretchen Whitmer, Democratic Governor, and Pete Buttigieg Secretary of Transportation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stabenows-retirement-announcement-fuels-2024-senate-election-rumors-here-are-the-names-being-floated\">Rumored<\/a> To run for Stabenow\u2019s seat. However, both Whitmer &#038; Buttigieg denied these rumors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tudor Dixon, the Republican nominee for the 2022 governorship, sparked speculation after she posted a thread of tweets on the &#8220;opportunity&#8221; Stabenow announced that the GOP will have a seat in the Senate in 2024. After Stabenow defeated GOP Sen. Spencer Abraham in his re-election bid, Michigan Republicans haven&#8217;t held a Senate Seat since 2001.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-105511\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another high-profile candidate is Rep. John James (R.MI), who is rumored be running for the seat. James, a U.S. Army Veteran, ran against Stabenow for the seat in 2018. He lost by 6.5 percentage points. He ran again two years later for a Senate seat against Democratic Sen. Gary Peters. That election was lost by less than 2 percentage points. In 2022, he won a general election and was elected U.S. Representative for Michigan&#8217;s 10th House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) threw her hat in what promises to be a contentious 2024 Senate race after 72-year-old Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) said she would not seek re-election next year. Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who has been in Congress since 2019, won a close election in Michigan\u2019s redrawn 7th district in the 2022 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1862166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4156,13442,6244,4601,11741,5839,7025,13563],"class_list":["post-1862163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-announces","tag-debbie","tag-dem","tag-michigan","tag-retiring","tag-seat","tag-sen","tag-stabenows"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862163","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1862166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}