{"id":2350743,"date":"2024-10-04T11:36:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-in-new-ad-for-elissa-slotkin-as-gop-challenger-gains-momentum-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:37:11","slug":"obama-in-new-ad-for-elissa-slotkin-as-gop-challenger-gains-momentum-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-in-new-ad-for-elissa-slotkin-as-gop-challenger-gains-momentum-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama in new ad for Elissa Slotkin as GOP challenger gains momentum &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fobama-in-new-ad-for-elissa-slotkin-as-gop-challenger-gains-momentum-washington-examiner%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=2350743&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>Elissa Slotkin, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from\u200b Michigan, has received\u2063 a significant endorsement from former President \u200bBarack Obama as she faces Republican challenger Mike Rogers in a \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-sen-tom-cotton-moderate-democrats-is-code-for-vulnerable-democrats\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Sen. Tom Cotton: &#039;Moderate Democrats&#039; Is Code for &#039;Vulnerable Democrats&#039;\">closely contested race<\/a>. Obama has featured in a new ad\u2062 supporting Slotkin, titled &#8220;Make You Proud,&#8221; during a critical point in the election. In the ad, \u2064Obama emphasizes Slotkin&#8217;s leadership, describing\u2062 her as tough,\u200d independent, and effective, and highlighting her experience\u2064 in\u2062 national security. This support comes as recent polls indicate that Rogers has gained ground, narrowing the \u2064gap to just three percentage points.\u2064 The Democratic Party\u2063 is focused on maintaining its slim \u2063majority in the Senate, making this race particularly \u2062consequential. Slotkin has significantly outraised Rogers in campaign funds, and both \u2063she and Obama are prioritizing voter mobilization efforts in the\u200d lead-up to the election.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Obama in new ad for Elissa Slotkin as GOP challenger gains momentum<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1701233\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3112914\/battle-set-michigan-senate-seat-slotkin-rogers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Elissa Slotkin<\/a> (D-MI) secured former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Barack Obama<\/a>&rsquo;s endorsement and participation in a brand new ad campaign as polling shows her senate ambitions are on shaky ground.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Obama nominated Slotkin to be an assistant secretary of Defense during his presidency.&nbsp;On Friday, he threw his weight behind her again as she races against Republican nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-rogers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mike Rogers<\/a> to claim the state&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillbilly-elegy-author-jd-vance-confirms-hes-seriously-considering-senate-run-in-ohio\/\" title=\"\u2018Hillbilly Elegy\u2019 Author JD Vance Confirms He\u2019s Seriously Considering Senate Run In Ohio\">open senate seat<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the first time this election cycle, voters across the Great Lakes State are seeing the former president back Slotkin in a roughly 60-second ad called &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=00evhPj__9Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Make You Proud<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She understood when to compromise and when to stand firm,&rdquo; Obama says in the ad, which will air on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corporate-americas-sharp-left-turn-prompts-unprecedented-backlash\/\" title=\"Corporate America\u2019s Sharp Left Turn Prompts Unprecedented Backlash\">digital channels<\/a> and radio throughout the battleground state. &ldquo;And that&rsquo;s why I nominated her to be an assistant secretary of Defense. Elissa is the kind of leader we need: tough, independent, and effective. She&rsquo;ll get the job done, and she will make you proud.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former President Barack Obama speaks during the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo\/Charles Rex Arbogast)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;In the Situation Room, Elissa delivered national security briefings on some of the toughest issues we were dealing with. That&rsquo;s why I sent Elissa to negotiate on my behalf because she understood when to compromise and when to stand firm,&rdquo; the former president continues in the ad. &ldquo;And it&rsquo;s why I nominated her to be an assistant secretary of defense.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Obama&rsquo;s new show of support for Slotkin<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">&nbsp;and other Democratic senatorial candidates, such as Maryland&rsquo;s Angela Alsobrooks, comes as his party is fighting to save its razor-thin two-seat majority in the upper chamber. Polling&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/elections2024.thehill.com\/michigan\/michigan-senate-slotkin-rogers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows<\/a>&nbsp;Rogers has begun closing the gap with Slotkin in recent weeks, now trailing her by only three<\/span> percentage points. It&rsquo;s a sign that doesn&rsquo;t bode well for the Democratic Party&rsquo;s goal of fighting back GOP gains in Congress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eric Schultz, a spokesman for Obama, indicated he believed keeping the Democratic majority in the Senate &ldquo;could not be more consequential&rdquo; in comments to NBC News.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now that voting has begun, our focus is on persuading and mobilizing voters, especially in states with key races,&rdquo; Schultz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/barack-obama-cuts-new-ad-elissa-slotkin-battleground-michigan-senate-r-rcna173937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin and her allies have poured millions into doing just that. Data released in September from Open Secrets, an organization that tracks money flowing into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/microsoft-targeted-by-hacking-group-backed-by-chinese-government\/\" title=\"Microsoft Targeted By Hacking Group Backed By Chinese Government\">political campaigns<\/a>, showed the Michigan Democrat had outraised Rogers 4 to 1.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Slotkin suffered a blow the same month when the powerful Michigan Farm Bureau&rsquo;s AgriPac decided to back her Republican opponent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Slotkin serves on the House Agriculture Committee and her patron, Debbie Stabenow, is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. I imagine they are both pretty pissed about that decision,&rdquo; Michigan GOP strategist Jason Roe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pretty-damn-significant-slotkin-suffers-blow-michigan-farm-bureau-jilts-dems-endorse-gop-candidate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told<\/a> Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The agriculture community wields significant influence in the state, where the farming industry employs nearly a million Michigan residents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In another eleventh-hour<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3173303\/cash-floods-michigan-senate-race-to-boost-republican-mike-rogers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title> boost<\/a> to Roger&rsquo;s campaign, the Senate Leadership Fund and the Great Lakes Conservative Fund recently launched ad campaigns on his behalf that are worth more than $30 million.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1701233\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1701233\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama endorses Elissa Slotkin in new ad as GOP gains ground<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2350744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Obama-Slotkin-scaled-1024x1024.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[33557,36797,5315,42346,32076],"class_list":["post-2350743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-elissa-slotkin","tag-gop-challenger","tag-obama","tag-political-ad","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Obama-Slotkin-scaled-1024x1024.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350743","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\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2350744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}