{"id":1968457,"date":"2023-07-10T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-hill-harper-announces-campaign-for-michigan-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:26:25","slug":"actor-hill-harper-announces-campaign-for-michigan-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-hill-harper-announces-campaign-for-michigan-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill Harper, actor, enters Michigan Senate race."},"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\">14<\/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%2Factor-hill-harper-announces-campaign-for-michigan-senate-race%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=1968457&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--><h2>Hill Harper Launches Campaign for Michigan&#8217;s Senate Race<\/h2>\n<p>The actor Hill Harper has made an exciting announcement, officially launching his campaign for Michigan&#8217;s Senate race. This sets up an intriguing challenge against Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who is running for the seat to replace Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), who announced in January that she would not seek reelection.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in a state where I think the triple blue leadership in Lansing has done really <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-hill-harper-announces-campaign-for-michigan-senate-race\/\" title=\"Hill Harper, actor, enters Michigan Senate race.\">hard work moving<\/a> the state forward, but in Washington, D.C., it&#8217;s still broken. And folks feel like it&#8217;s still broken. And I&#8217;m one of them,&#8221; Harper, a Democrat, told the Detroit News. &#8220;Without energized, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-two-sides-of-the-withdraw-from-afghanistan-or-not-argument\/\" title=\"The Two Sides Of The \u2018Withdraw From Afghanistan Or Not?\u2019 Argument\">bold leadership<\/a> in the U.S. Senate, our state will continue to be held back from achieving its full potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Supreme Court News: Roberts and Kavanaugh as Pivotal Votes<\/h3>\n<p>Although Harper is a political novice, he brings name recognition from his acting roles in The Good Doctor and CSI: NY, as well as owning Roasting Plant Coffee in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats face an uphill battle in next year&#8217;s elections to maintain control of the Senate, and Republicans view the Michigan Senate seat as a crucial pickup.<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin, a rising star within the Democratic Party, announced her Senate campaign in February, advocating for a new generation of Democratic leadership.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We need a new generation of leaders that thinks differently, works harder, and never forgets that we are <strong>public servants<\/strong>,&#8221; Slotkin tweeted. She raised over $1 million on the first day of her campaign announcement and nearly $3 million in the second fundraising quarter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Harper highlighted his membership in the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, stating that if elected, he would be &#8220;the only U.S. senator who is a current dues-paying, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gabriella-hoffman-lets-continue-to-fight-for-freelancers\/\" title=\"Gabriella Hoffman: Let\u2019s Continue to Fight for Freelancers\">card-carrying union member<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Harper emphasized the importance of representation and diversity in his campaign. Currently, there are only three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anaylsis-more-than-half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake-and-were-just-created-in-january\/\" title=\"Anaylsis: More Than Half Of Joe Biden\u2019s Twitter Followers Are FAKE and Were Just Created in January\">black men<\/a> in the Senate, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), with no black women senators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People want to see themselves reflected in their representation, and right now, Michiganders don&#8217;t feel that way about their Washington, D.C., representation,&#8221; Harper expressed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Hill Harper launched his campaign for Michigan&#8217;s Senate race, challenging Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) who aims to replace Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). Stabenow, who announced her decision not to seek reelection in January, leaves room for change in Michigan&#8217;s triple blue leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1968458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1968457","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}