{"id":1969847,"date":"2023-07-11T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-good-doctor-actor-will-run-for-senate-in-michigan\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:43:34","slug":"the-good-doctor-actor-will-run-for-senate-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-good-doctor-actor-will-run-for-senate-in-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Good Doctor&#8217; star to enter 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\">18<\/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%2Fthe-good-doctor-actor-will-run-for-senate-in-michigan%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=1969847&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--><blockquote>\n<h2>Actor Hill Harper Announces Run for Michigan Senate Seat<\/h2>\n<p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Hill Harper<\/a> announced Monday that he\u2019s running for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/michigan\">Michigan<\/a>\u2019s open U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-senate\">Senate seat<\/a>, challenging U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/democrat\">Democratic<\/a> nomination.\n  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n  The actor, known for his role on the ABC drama series \u201cThe Good Doctor,\u201d owns a home and a coffee shop in Detroit and describes himself as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuomo-to-partially-reopen-indoor-dining-in-nyc-for-valentines-day-if-positivity-rates-hold\/\" title=\"Cuomo To Partially Reopen Indoor Dining In NYC For Valentine\u2019s Day, \u2018If Positivity Rates Hold\u2019\">small business owner<\/a> and activist. Harper believes that his perspective as a non-career politician will benefit the people he represents.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s not about party. It\u2019s about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-good-doctor-actor-will-run-for-senate-in-michigan\/\" title=\"'The Good Doctor' star to enter Michigan Senate race.\">people feeling represented<\/a>,\u201d Harper told the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hill-harper-senate-michigan-csi-good-doctor-b820a0f56cf445830f1f086c235318a1\">Associated Press<\/a> in an interview. \u201cAnd being an independent voice in the U.S. Senate is something I believe Michiganders want right now.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Besides his acting career, Harper attended Brown University and Harvard Law School. He\u2019s been acting since the age of 7 and has appeared in various TV shows and movies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Harper is the sixth Democratic candidate to enter the race, joining Slotkin, Leslie Love, Pamela Pugh, Zack Burns, and Nasser Beydoun. On the Republican side, Michigan Board of Education member Nikki Snyder and business owner Michael Hoover are seeking the nomination.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In 2012, Harper was appointed to then-President Barack Obama\u2019s cancer panel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1688831213092000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1PLjNvPE9xhE43TkDJzri8\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Harper previously discussed his thoughts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-for-student-debt-forgiveness-would-cost-taxpayers-millions\/\" title=\"Democrats push for student debt forgiveness, would cost taxpayers millions\">racial wealth gap<\/a> during a keynote speech at Providence College in February.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI think these next five to 10 years are going to determine [the trajectory of things]. If we really are going to be honest and break down what\u2019s happening, it\u2019s no coincidence that the billionaires of this world are figuring out how they\u2019re traveling to different planets,\u201d the actor <a href=\"https:\/\/business.providence.edu\/a-conversation-with-hill-harper\/\">said<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cPeople are setting things up that this planet\u2019s going to get left in the dust. I mean that\u2019s where we\u2019re headed. And it\u2019s the microcosms happening in many countries. You go to so many countries where you have all these gated communities and then people living in shanties right out there. If we don\u2019t, that\u2019s going to happen here. That\u2019s where we\u2019re heading. What does that look like? It looks like police states. It\u2019s gross, and it\u2019s unconscionable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Hill Harper, famous for his role on &#8220;The Good Doctor,&#8221; is vying for Michigan&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat. He aims to secure the Democratic nomination, challenging U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin. Harper, a Detroit homeowner and coffee shop owner, identifies as a grassroots candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1969848,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1969847","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}