{"id":2242054,"date":"2024-05-10T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T21:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elissa-slotkin-accused-by-michigan-democratic-senate-opponent-of-pandering-to-black-voters\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T21:42:28","slug":"elissa-slotkin-accused-by-michigan-democratic-senate-opponent-of-pandering-to-black-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elissa-slotkin-accused-by-michigan-democratic-senate-opponent-of-pandering-to-black-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Democratic Senate candidate accuses Elissa Slotkin of pandering to black voters"},"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\">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%2Felissa-slotkin-accused-by-michigan-democratic-senate-opponent-of-pandering-to-black-voters%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=2242054&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--><p>The \u200bMichigan Democratic Senate primary\u200c heats up as Hill Harper accuses Rep. Elissa Slotkin of exploiting black voters.\u200d Slotkin faces criticism\u200b for alleged performative politics and\u2064 voting \u2064against\u2064 D.C. legislation \u2063affecting black\u200b communities. Slotkin, backed by \u2064Senate Democrats, is favored to win the primary, a\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-senate-race-back-to-being-a-toss-up\/\" title=\"Arizona Senate Race Back to Being a Toss-Up\">critical battleground race<\/a> for\u2063 maintaining the \u2063party&#8217;s Senate majority amid tensions with Harper.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE \u2014<\/strong> Tensions are flaring in the Democratic primary for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Michigan\u2019s\">Michigan<\/a>\u2019s open Senate seat amid accusations from an opponent of Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2178920\/rep-elissa-slotkin-announces-2024-michigan-senate-run\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Elissa Slotkin\">Elissa Slotkin<\/a> (D-MI) that she\u2019s playing politics with black voters.<\/p>\n<p>Hill Harper, a black actor and long-shot Democratic candidate against establishment-backed Slotkin, says she\u2019s taking for granted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2875296\/michigan-black-representation-bidens-problem-november\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"powerful voting block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-security-is-going-broke-in-13-years\/\" title=\"Social Security Is Going Broke in 13 Years\">powerful voting bloc<\/a><\/a> in the Great Lakes State, according to campaign footage obtained by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Harper told supporters this week at an LGBT campaign event in Grand Rapids that Slotkin has engaged in \u201cperformative\u201d politics by beefing up her team with \u201ca whole bunch of black folks from Detroit\u201d while employing none in her congressional offices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do I know that stuff is so performative in this race? My opponent has sat in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Congress<\/a> for three terms, and you know how many black folks she had on her staff, total? Total, total, total, total, total, total, total, total? Zero,\u201d Harper said. \u201cBut you look at her campaign, and she hired a whole bunch of black folks from Detroit. She got black people on the campaign who are like, \u2018Whoa!\u2019 But when you actually hired people for the work you\u2019re doing, did you do that? Absolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At another point, Harper tells the attendees that Slotkin voted to \u201cdisenfranchise 800,000 poor black folk\u201d by supporting GOP-led legislation last year that overturned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Washington-DC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>District of Columbia<\/a>\u2019s policies loosening criminal penalties as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minneapolis-leaders-call-on-residents-to-stand-up-to-violent-criminals-amid-cop-shortage-skyrocketing-crime\/\" title=\"Minneapolis Leaders Call On Residents To \u2018Stand Up\u2019 To Violent Criminals Amid Cop Shortage, Skyrocketing Crime\">violent crime surged<\/a> in the nation\u2019s capital. Slotkin was among several dozen Democrats to vote with Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of the Democratic-led Senate and President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Joe-Biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a>, the measure overturning D.C.\u2019s criminal code was passed and signed into law in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy opponent voted against the D.C. Crime Bill, which is a precursor to D.C. statehood,\u201d Harper said. \u201cWhere there\u2019s 800,000 black people who don\u2019t even have a senator, don\u2019t even have a congressperson, how do you make that vote? How, tell me that? In what world do you disenfranchise 800,000 poor black folk. How do you make that vote? Okay, you guys got me hot.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>FILE \u2013 Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., asks a question during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 15, 2022. The U.S. Department of Defense plans to install two more groundwater treatment systems at a former Michigan military base to control contamination from so-called forever chemicals, Slotkin\u2019s office announced Friday, Jan. 19, 2024.(AP Photo\/Mariam Zuhaib, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Neither the Slotkin nor the Harper campaigns responded to requests for comment. The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> could not verify how many black staffers Slotkin has in her congressional offices or on her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Senate<\/a> seat is open due to the retirement of longtime Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). The 74-year-old has held the seat for nearly 25 years since 2001. It is one of several battleground races that Democrats must defend to maintain their razor-thin one-seat Senate majority. Michigan is also pivotal for Biden in his race against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin is backed by Senate Democrats\u2019 campaign arm and is heavily favored to win the primary, according to polling and nonpartisan election forecasters. In hypothetical one-on-one matchups against the various Republican candidates, Slotkin has been tied or leading up to nine percentage points in surveys conducted this year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Republican\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Republican<\/a> Mike Rogers, a former congressman and ex-House Intelligence Committee chairman, is favored to win the primary and supported by the Senate GOP\u2019s campaign arm.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate primaries are on Aug. 6.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Actor Hill Harper, a democrat running for Michigan\u2019s open U.S. Senate seat walks with SAG-AFTRA members in the Labor Day parade in Detroit, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. (AP Photo\/Paul Sancya)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Harper has consistently raised concerns over the lack of black representation among Democrats in Michigan\u2019s 15-member congressional delegation. Rep. John James (R-MI) is the only black member from the state, which has never elected a black senator.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Detroit, Michigan\u2018s largest city whose population is three-fourths black, is not represented by a black member of Congress for the first time in more than half a century. Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI), who is Indian, represents the Motor City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichigan is a red state until black folks vote,\u201d Harper said in a February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CNN<\/a> interview ahead of the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-canvassers-rescind-their-votes-to-certify-wayne-county-michigan-results\/\" title=\"Republican Canvassers Rescind Their Votes to Certify Wayne County, Michigan, Results\">presidential primary<\/a>, as he discussed Democratic opposition to Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Israel<\/a> support. \u201cWhen this open U.S. Senate seat came up that I\u2019m obviously running for, the Democratic leadership did not come to the black community and say, \u2018You know what, you\u2019re unrepresented, let\u2019s have a conversation, who would you like to see?\u2019 Instead, they hand-picked a candidate that they said, \u2018This is who the establishment has chosen,\u2019 and that candidate does not necessarily have a real relationship with the black community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Marisa Schultz contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive report, tensions escalate in Michigan&#8217;s Democratic Senate primary as Hill Harper accuses Rep. 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