Summary

Current Position: US Representative of MI 8th District since 2019
Affiliation: Democrat
Candidate: 2023 US Representative for 8th
District:    based in Lansing and stretches into Detroit’s outer western suburbs.
Upcoming Election: Running for US Senate

A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst and Department of Defense official. Slotkin was acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs from 2015 to 2017.

Her family farm was part of Hygrade Meat Company, founded by her grandfather, Hugo Slotkin. Hygrade was the original company behind Ball Park Franks which is now owned by Tyson Foods.

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Elissa Slotkin 1Representative Elissa Slotkin is honored to serve the residents of Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, a district that includes Ingham, Livingston, and North Oakland Counties.

Rep. Slotkin has spent her career in national service. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which took place during her first week of graduate school in New York City, Rep. Slotkin knew that national service would define her career. She was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to be a Middle East analyst and went on to devote her career to protecting the United States from national security threats. In her role at the CIA, Rep. Slotkin worked alongside the U.S. military during three tours in Iraq as a militia expert. In between her tours in Iraq, Rep. Slotkin held various defense and intelligence positions under President Bush and President Obama, including roles at the White House and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In 2011, Rep. Slotkin took a senior position at the Pentagon and, until January 2017, she served as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. In this role, Rep. Slotkin oversaw policy on Russia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at the Pentagon and participated in negotiations on some of the country’s most pressing national security issues.

It is this same mission-focus that Rep. Slotkin brings to issues affecting citizens of Michigan’s 8th congressional district. For Rep. Slotkin, this means ensuring that everyone has access to healthcare they can afford, lowering the price of prescription drugs, protecting access to clean water and Michigan’s Great Lakes, and returning decency and integrity to politics. Rep. Slotkin’s background in national security contributes to the urgency and passion she brings to increasing government integrity and accountability and passing campaign finance reform. To learn more about Rep. Slotkin’s legislative priorities, click here.

A third-generation Michigander, Rep. Slotkin spent her early life on her family farm in Holly, Michigan. The generations of Slotkins before her worked in the family business, Hygrade Foods, which was headquartered in Detroit and produced iconic foods loved by Michiganders, like the Ballpark Frank first sold at Detroit’s Tiger Stadium. The values that made the family business successful instilled in Rep. Slotkin an enduring commitment to integrity, decency, and hard work that guided her to a career of service. The Slotkin family business is well represented in Rep. Slotkin’s office, with hot dog figurines and artwork proudly displayed. Rep. Slotkin attended Cornell University (BA) and Columbia University in the City of New York (MA).

Rep. Slotkin’s home is her family farm in Holly. Rep. Slotkin’s husband, Dave, is a retired Army colonel who served for 30 years as an Apache helicopter pilot. Her two stepdaughters have pursued their own lives of service, one as a physician and the other as a new Army officer.

Our District:

U.S. Representative Elissa Slotkin is proud to serve the people of the 8th Congressional District of Michigan, a district that spans Ingham, Livingston, and North Oakland counties. The major cities include (most of) Lansing, East Lansing, Brighton, Howell, Clarkston, Lake Orion, Rochester, and Rochester Hills.

Experience

Work Experience

Education

Personal

Full Name: Elissa Slotkin

Gender: Female

Family: Husband: Dave; 2 Stepchildren

Birth Date: 07/10/1976

Birth Place: Holly, MI

Home City: Holly, MI

Religion: Jewish

Source: Vote Smart

Education

MA, International Affairs/National Security Policy/Middle Eastern Affairs, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, 2001-2003

Certified, Intensive Arabic, American University of Cairo, 2001

BA, Rural Sociology, Cornell University, 1994-1998

Political Experience

Representative, United States House of Representatives, Michigan, District 7, 2023-Present

Representative, United States House of Representatives, Michigan, District 8, 2019-2023

Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Michigan, District 8, 2018, 2020

Professional Experience

Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2015-2017

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2012-2013, 2014-2015

Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2013-2014

Chief of Staff, Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2012

Senior Advisor on Middle East Transition, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, 2011-2012

Senior Advisor on Iraq, United States Department of State, 2009-2011

Director for Iraq, National Security Council, The White House, 2007-2009

Team Leader, Central Intelligence Agency, 2006-2007

Senior Assistant, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2005-2006

Intelligence Briefer, United States Ambassador, Central Intelligence Agency, 2004-2005

Political Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency, 2003-2004

Political Affairs Officer/Intern, United States Department of State, 2002

Grant Writer, Isha L’Isha (Women to Women), 2000-2001

Swahili Translator, Harbor Area Early Childhood, 1999-2000

Community Organizer, Roca, Incorporated, 1998-2000

Offices

Washington, D.C.
1531 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: Phone: (202) 225-4872

Lansing
1100 W. Saginaw St. Suite 3a
Lansing, MI 48915
Phone: Phone: (517) 993-0510

Rochester Hills
445 S. Livernois Suite 316
Rochester Hills, MI 48307
Phone: Phone: (517) 993-0510

Contact

Email: https://slotkin.house.gov/zip-code-lookup?form=/contact/email-me

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Politics

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Election Results

To learn more, go to this wikipedia section in this post.

Finances

Source: Vote Smart

Committees

Rep. Elissa Slotkin serves on the following committees and subcommittees:

House Armed Services Committee:

  • Subcommittee on Intelligence & Special Operations (Vice Chair)
  • Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Innovative Technologies, & Information

House Agriculture Committee:

  • Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology

New Legislation

Learn more about legislation sponsored and co-sponsored by Representative Slotkin.

Issues

Elissa believes that our government works best when we have two healthy parties that debate the big issues facing Americans. She has always tried to work across the aisle on issues like bringing critical supply chains back home, but she always stood her ground when it comes to issues of principle, like protecting our rights and our democracy.

Elissa’s priorities will grow and deepen as she embarks on a listening tour around Michigan, visiting communities across the state to learn about how she can best serve in the U.S. Senate.

Priorities

Source: Campaign Site

Protecting our Rights and Democracy

Elissa believes that protecting America’s democracy is the ultimate kitchen table issue – because every other issue depends on a vibrant and resilient democracy. Elissa has made defending and expanding voting rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and women’s rights a priority in her time in public office.

In order to preserve our democracy, we must also reform the very political system we use to elect our leaders. With trust in our elected officials at an all-time low and with the foundation of our democracy at stake, Elissa is proud to have never taken a dime of corporate PAC money – not ever. In Congress, she has led the charge to ban corporate PACs and pushed leaders in both parties to ban Members of Congress from trading stocks. Elissa believes our government needs to work for the people — not the wealthy and the well-connected.

Keeping our Communities and Kids Safe

Elissa’s national security background means she’s focused on the things that are truly a threat to our kids. From physical safety to cybersecurity, she feels there is no higher responsibility than to protect the next generation.

Elissa is the first Member of Congress to have two school shootings in her district – the first in Oxford and the second at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Elissa has seen firsthand the toll gun violence has taken on Michigan and our children. In Congress, Elissa has supported no-brainer gun safety measures to keep our communities safe, including safe storage of firearms, universal background checks, red flag laws, and the assault weapons ban.

After the November 2021 shooting at Oxford High School, Elissa introduced a bill requiring safe storage of firearms when children are present in the home, which passed in the House in 2022. Having grown up in a gun-owning family and being trained on a Glock and an M4 during three tours in Iraq alongside the U.S. military, Elissa respects the right to own and to use it responsibly for hunting and sportsmanship – but she will never stop fighting to keep deadly weapons out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.

Making Things in America

Elissa believes that we need to make more critical items in America, so that we are in control of our own economic security.

She pushed leaders in both parties to pass the CHIPS Act into law to manufacture microchips in the U.S. and protect Michigan’s auto industry. And she championed bills like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to rebuild our roads, bridges, and water infrastructure while creating tens of thousands of good-paying, union jobs across Michigan. In the Senate, Elissa will work every day to bring critical supply chains and manufacturing back home.

Defending and Expanding Michigan’s Middle Class

Elissa is a big believer in protecting and expanding Michigan’s middle class. That means addressing the things Michiganders talk about every night at the kitchen table: their pocketbooks and their kids.

Elissa has fought to create jobs with dignity in Michigan, taken on the Chinese government, and worked to bring critical supply chains back to America and good-paying jobs back to Michigan.

And like many Americans, healthcare is a deeply personal issue for Elissa. In fact, it was the reason she decided to first run for office. In 2009, Elissa’s mother was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer at a time when she was uninsured. She struggled to afford healthcare for years because of an early case of breast cancer, and at the time, the insurance companies had gouged her for years based on that pre-existing condition. The same month that Elissa got her mother’s terminal diagnosis and was desperately trying to get her life-saving care was the same month that the family was also filling out the paperwork for her to declare bankruptcy.

Elissa believes all Americans should have access to healthcare they can afford, regardless of pre-existing conditions. No one should ever go broke because they happen to get sick, and no family should have to decide whether they can afford to save the life of a loved one. In Congress, Elissa has taken the fight to Big Pharma and helped pass legislation to make prescription drug prices more transparent that is coming into force in early 2023, and fought to pass laws that capped the cost of insulin for seniors, and allowed Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices.

 

 

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Services

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District

Source: Wikipedia

Michigan’s 7th congressional district is a United States congressional district in Southern Michigan and portions of Central Michigan. From 2004 to 2013 it consisted of all of Branch, Eaton, Hillsdale, Jackson, and Lenawee counties, and included most of Calhoun and a large portion of western and northern Washtenaw counties. The current district, which was created in 2022, is centered around Lansing, Michigan’s state capital, and includes all of Clinton, Shiawassee, Ingham, and Livingston counties, as well as portions of Eaton and Oakland counties.[2]

The district is currently represented by Democrat Elissa Slotkin, who previously represented the old 8th district. The previous incarnation of this district was represented by Republican Tim Walberg, who now represents the state’s 5th congressional district.

Wikipedia

Elissa Blair Slotkin (born July 10, 1976) is an American politician who is a United States senator-elect from Michigan. She has served as the U.S. representative for Michigan’s 7th congressional district since 2019.[1] The district, numbered as the 8th from 2019 to 2023, stretches from Lansing to the outer northern suburbs of Detroit. A member of the Democratic Party, Slotkin was previously a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst and Department of Defense official.

In the 2024 election, Slotkin was narrowly elected to the U.S. Senate with 48.6% of the vote.[2]

Early life and education

Slotkin was born on July 10, 1976, in New York City, the daughter of Curt Slotkin and Judith (née Spitz) Slotkin.[3][4] She is Jewish.[4][5][6] Slotkin spent her early life on a farm in Holly, Michigan. She attended Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills.[7] Her family farm was part of Hygrade Meat Company, founded by her great-grandfather Samuel Slotkin, who emigrated from Minsk in 1900.[8] Hygrade was the original company behind Ball Park Franks which is now owned by Tyson Foods.[9]

Slotkin earned a bachelor of arts in sociology from Cornell University in 1998 followed by a master of international affairs from Columbia University‘s School of International and Public Affairs in 2003.[10]

Early career

Slotkin was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency after graduate school. Fluent in Arabic and Swahili, she served three tours in Iraq as a CIA analyst. During the George W. Bush administration, she worked on the Iraq portfolio for the National Security Council. During Barack Obama‘s presidency, she worked for the State Department and the Department of Defense.[9] Slotkin was acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs from 2015 to 2017.[11]

After leaving the Defense Department in January 2017, Slotkin moved back to her family’s farm in Holly, where she owned and operated Pinpoint Consulting.[7]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2018

See also: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 8

In July 2017, Slotkin announced her candidacy for Michigan’s 8th congressional district.[12] She said she was motivated to challenge two-term Republican incumbent Mike Bishop when she saw him smile at a White House celebration after he and House Republicans voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act.[13] On August 7, Slotkin defeated Michigan State University criminal justice professor Christopher Smith in the Democratic primary with 70.7% of the vote.[14][15]

In November 2018, Slotkin defeated Bishop with 50.6% of the vote.[1][16] She is the first Democrat to represent Michigan’s 8th district since 2001,[16] when Debbie Stabenow gave up the seat to run for the U. S. Senate.

2020

See also: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 8

Slotkin won reelection in 2020 with 50.9% of the vote, defeating Republican Paul Junge.[17]

In 2019, Slotkin held several town halls about her decision to vote in favor of President Donald Trump‘s impeachment. The meetings drew hundreds of protestors and received nationwide media coverage.[18]

Slotkin adapted to campaigning during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding campaign events both virtually and socially distanced, with contactless door canvassing, and by running advertisements on gas pumps.[19]

2022

See also: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 7

Due to redistricting, Slotkin’s district was renumbered as the 7th district.

She defeated Republican nominee Tom Barrett with 51.5% of the vote to Barrett’s 46.5%.[20] The general election was the most expensive U.S. House race of 2022 with Slotkin raising $9.8 million.[21][22]

Slotkin criticized Barrett’s stance on abortion, specifically his statement that he is “100% pro-life, no exceptions”.[23] She also criticized his multiple votes against incentives for a new General Motors electric vehicle battery plant in Delta Township.[24]

She was endorsed by Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney.[25]

During the campaign, Slotkin signed a seven-month lease on a condominium in Lansing, Michigan. The owner of the condominium was a donor to Slotkin’s campaign, although her campaign stated that the lease was at a fair market rate.[26][27] After the election and prior to her February 2023 divorce, Slotkin moved back to her family farm in Holly, which is in Michigan’s 9th congressional district.[28][29]

Slotkin attributed her victory to “losing better” in the district’s Republican-leaning areas.[22] Her win defied trends in other states that resulted in Democrats narrowly losing control of the House of Representatives for the 118th Congress.[22]

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

U.S. Senate

Main article: 2024 United States Senate election in Michigan

On February 27, 2023, Slotkin announced her candidacy in the 2024 Michigan U.S. Senate election following Debbie Stabenow‘s announcement that she would vacate the seat.[33] She won the Democratic primary on August 6, 2024, with 76% of the vote becoming Democratic nominee in the general election against Republican Mike Rogers.[34][35] On November 5, 2024, she won the election, outperforming the top of the ticket.[2]

Political positions

Slotkin has been described as a moderate Democrat.[36][37][38][39] She has been ranked among the most bipartisan members of the House.[40][41][38]

Campaign finance policy

In 2022, Slotkin co-sponsored the Ban Corporate PACs Act, which if enacted would prevent corporations from operating a political action committee.[42]

Criminal justice

Following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2020, Slotkin co-sponsored and voted for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020.[43][44][45] She voted in favor of the bill again in 2021.[46][47] Slotkin was the only House Democrat in Michigan who voted for a bill to overturn DC criminal code modernization.[48][49]

Slotkin opposes abolishing the death penalty.[50]

Economic policy

Slotkin opposes Medicare for All but supports a buy-in Medicare option.[51]

During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Slotkin supported the bipartisan CARES Act relief package, which passed Congress in March 2020. In May 2020, she voted for the HEROES Act, a $3 trillion stimulus package.[52] In November 2021, she voted for the Build Back Better Act.[53][54]

In August 2022, Slotkin voted for the Inflation Reduction Act.[55]

Flags

In 2023, Slotkin was one of two House Democrats who voted for a Republican-backed amendment which prevented Department of Defense facilities from displaying non-official flags, including the pride flag. After facing criticism for the vote, Slotkin said that it was intended to prevent the flying of “hateful flags […] particularly the Confederate flag“, adding that she would “rather support a no-flag policy than allow hateful imagery above U.S. military bases.”[56][57][58]

Foreign policy

Slotkin is one of five Democratic House members who voted against an amendment to prohibit support to and participation in the Saudi-led coalition’s military operations against the Houthis in Yemen.[59][60][61] Slotkin was the main sponsor of the 2020 Iran War Powers Resolution which sought to restrict President Donald Trump‘s ability to commit the United States to a war with Iran without a Congressional Declaration of War.[62] Slotkin voted against H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.[63][64]

Slotkin condemned Rashida Tlaib for defending the “from the river to the sea” slogan.[65]

Gun policy

In 2022, Slotkin voted for H.R. 1808, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2022.[66][67] She also introduced H.R. 6370, the Safe Guns, Safe Kids Act, which would require secure firearm storage in the presence of children. The bill was introduced after the 2021 Oxford High School shooting,[68] and passed by the House as part of the Protecting Our Kids Act.[69]

In 2023, following a mass shooting at Michigan State University in her district, she introduced the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act with Sen. Ed Markey.[70][71] The bill would provide $50 million each year for the next five years towards the research on firearms safety and gun violence prevention by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[72]

Health care

Slotkin supports the Affordable Care Act. During her 2020 campaign, she described the protection of health care coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions as the most important issue for her district. She supports allowing Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for those it insures.[73]

Impeachment

In September 2019, Slotkin and six other freshman House Democrats authored an opinion piece in The Washington Post calling for an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Its publication led to widespread Democratic support for an impeachment inquiry.[36][74] Slotkin voted in favor of impeaching Trump in both his first and second impeachments.[75][76]

LGBT rights

In both the 116th and 117th Congresses, Slotkin received a 100% rating from the Human Rights Campaign‘s (HRC) Congressional Scorecard, which measures “support for equality” among members of Congress based on their voting record.[77][78] She was endorsed by the HRC in each of her campaigns for the House.[79][80]

Student debt

During the Trump administration in 2020, Slotkin voted against one amendment, supported by 93% of the Democratic caucus, that would provide $10,000 debt relief for student loan borrowers.[81][82] Slotkin also pushed the Department of Education to assist federal employees with student loan payments during the partial government shutdown.[83] Slotkin voted twice against a Republican-led measure that would have overturned the Biden administration’s student debt forgiveness initiative.[84][85][86] In 2023, that initiative was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.[87]

Identity politics

Following the 2024 presidental election, Slotkin said that identity politics “needs to go the way of the dodo“, adding that “people need to be looked at as independent Americans, whatever group they’re from, whatever party they may be from.”[88]

Personal life

Slotkin married Dave Moore, a retired Army colonel and Apache helicopter pilot, in 2011.[89][90] They met in Baghdad during Slotkin’s third tour in Iraq and lived in Holly.[89][90] The two filed for divorce in 2023.[90] Slotkin had two stepdaughters while married to Moore.[91]

Electoral history

2024 United States Senate election in Michigan
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DemocraticElissa Slotkin2,706,03748.67%−3.59%
RepublicanMike Rogers2,684,31248.29%+2.53%
Natural LawDoug Dern41,2430.70%N/A
GreenDouglas Marsh53,8380.98%N/A
LibertarianJoseph Solis-Mullen56,4891.04%N/A
ConstitutionDave Stein49,6730.87%N/A
Write-in00.00%
Total votes5,560,647 100.0%
Michigan’s 7th congressional district, 2022
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticElissa Slotkin 192,809 51.7
RepublicanTom Barrett172,62446.3
LibertarianLeah Dailey7,2751.9
Total votes372,708 100.0
Michigan’s 8th congressional district, 2020[92]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticElissa Slotkin (incumbent) 217,929 50.9
RepublicanPaul Junge202,51947.3
LibertarianJoe Hartman7,8961.8
Total votes428,344 98
Democratic primary results
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticElissa Slotkin 57,819 70.7
DemocraticChristopher E. Smith23,99629.3
Total votes81,815 100.0
Michigan’s 8th congressional district, 2018
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticElissa Slotkin 172,880 50.6
RepublicanMike Bishop (incumbent)159,78246.8
LibertarianBrian Ellison6,3021.8
ConstitutionDavid Lillis2,6290.8
Total votes341,593 100.0
Democratic gain from Republican

See also

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    Wikipedia

    Elissa Blair Slotkin (born July 10, 1976) is an American politician who is a United States senator-elect from Michigan. She has served as the U.S. representative for Michigan’s 7th congressional district since 2019.[1] The district, numbered as the 8th from 2019 to 2023, stretches from Lansing to the outer northern suburbs of Detroit. A member of the Democratic Party, Slotkin was previously a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst and Department of Defense official.

    In the 2024 election, Slotkin was narrowly elected to the U.S. Senate with 48.6% of the vote.[2]

    Early life and education

    Slotkin was born on July 10, 1976, in New York City, the daughter of Curt Slotkin and Judith (née Spitz) Slotkin.[3][4] She is Jewish.[4][5][6] Slotkin spent her early life on a farm in Holly, Michigan. She attended Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills.[7] Her family farm was part of Hygrade Meat Company, founded by her great-grandfather Samuel Slotkin, who emigrated from Minsk in 1900.[8] Hygrade was the original company behind Ball Park Franks which is now owned by Tyson Foods.[9]

    Slotkin earned a bachelor of arts in sociology from Cornell University in 1998 followed by a master of international affairs from Columbia University‘s School of International and Public Affairs in 2003.[10]

    Early career

    Slotkin was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency after graduate school. Fluent in Arabic and Swahili, she served three tours in Iraq as a CIA analyst. During the George W. Bush administration, she worked on the Iraq portfolio for the National Security Council. During Barack Obama‘s presidency, she worked for the State Department and the Department of Defense.[9] Slotkin was acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs from 2015 to 2017.[11]

    After leaving the Defense Department in January 2017, Slotkin moved back to her family’s farm in Holly, where she owned and operated Pinpoint Consulting.[7]

    U.S. House of Representatives

    Elections

    2018

    See also: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 8

    In July 2017, Slotkin announced her candidacy for Michigan’s 8th congressional district.[12] She said she was motivated to challenge two-term Republican incumbent Mike Bishop when she saw him smile at a White House celebration after he and House Republicans voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act.[13] On August 7, Slotkin defeated Michigan State University criminal justice professor Christopher Smith in the Democratic primary with 70.7% of the vote.[14][15]

    In November 2018, Slotkin defeated Bishop with 50.6% of the vote.[1][16] She is the first Democrat to represent Michigan’s 8th district since 2001,[16] when Debbie Stabenow gave up the seat to run for the U. S. Senate.

    2020

    See also: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 8

    Slotkin won reelection in 2020 with 50.9% of the vote, defeating Republican Paul Junge.[17]

    In 2019, Slotkin held several town halls about her decision to vote in favor of President Donald Trump‘s impeachment. The meetings drew hundreds of protestors and received nationwide media coverage.[18]

    Slotkin adapted to campaigning during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding campaign events both virtually and socially distanced, with contactless door canvassing, and by running advertisements on gas pumps.[19]

    2022

    See also: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan § District 7

    Due to redistricting, Slotkin’s district was renumbered as the 7th district.

    She defeated Republican nominee Tom Barrett with 51.5% of the vote to Barrett’s 46.5%.[20] The general election was the most expensive U.S. House race of 2022 with Slotkin raising $9.8 million.[21][22]

    Slotkin criticized Barrett’s stance on abortion, specifically his statement that he is “100% pro-life, no exceptions”.[23] She also criticized his multiple votes against incentives for a new General Motors electric vehicle battery plant in Delta Township.[24]

    She was endorsed by Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney.[25]

    During the campaign, Slotkin signed a seven-month lease on a condominium in Lansing, Michigan. The owner of the condominium was a donor to Slotkin’s campaign, although her campaign stated that the lease was at a fair market rate.[26][27] After the election and prior to her February 2023 divorce, Slotkin moved back to her family farm in Holly, which is in Michigan’s 9th congressional district.[28][29]

    Slotkin attributed her victory to “losing better” in the district’s Republican-leaning areas.[22] Her win defied trends in other states that resulted in Democrats narrowly losing control of the House of Representatives for the 118th Congress.[22]

    Committee assignments

    Caucus memberships

    U.S. Senate

    Main article: 2024 United States Senate election in Michigan

    On February 27, 2023, Slotkin announced her candidacy in the 2024 Michigan U.S. Senate election following Debbie Stabenow‘s announcement that she would vacate the seat.[33] She won the Democratic primary on August 6, 2024, with 76% of the vote becoming Democratic nominee in the general election against Republican Mike Rogers.[34][35] On November 5, 2024, she won the election, outperforming the top of the ticket.[2]

    Political positions

    Slotkin has been described as a moderate Democrat.[36][37][38][39] She has been ranked among the most bipartisan members of the House.[40][41][38]

    Campaign finance policy

    In 2022, Slotkin co-sponsored the Ban Corporate PACs Act, which if enacted would prevent corporations from operating a political action committee.[42]

    Criminal justice

    Following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2020, Slotkin co-sponsored and voted for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020.[43][44][45] She voted in favor of the bill again in 2021.[46][47] Slotkin was the only House Democrat in Michigan who voted for a bill to overturn DC criminal code modernization.[48][49]

    Slotkin opposes abolishing the death penalty.[50]

    Economic policy

    Slotkin opposes Medicare for All but supports a buy-in Medicare option.[51]

    During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Slotkin supported the bipartisan CARES Act relief package, which passed Congress in March 2020. In May 2020, she voted for the HEROES Act, a $3 trillion stimulus package.[52] In November 2021, she voted for the Build Back Better Act.[53][54]

    In August 2022, Slotkin voted for the Inflation Reduction Act.[55]

    Flags

    In 2023, Slotkin was one of two House Democrats who voted for a Republican-backed amendment which prevented Department of Defense facilities from displaying non-official flags, including the pride flag. After facing criticism for the vote, Slotkin said that it was intended to prevent the flying of “hateful flags […] particularly the Confederate flag“, adding that she would “rather support a no-flag policy than allow hateful imagery above U.S. military bases.”[56][57][58]

    Foreign policy

    Slotkin is one of five Democratic House members who voted against an amendment to prohibit support to and participation in the Saudi-led coalition’s military operations against the Houthis in Yemen.[59][60][61] Slotkin was the main sponsor of the 2020 Iran War Powers Resolution which sought to restrict President Donald Trump‘s ability to commit the United States to a war with Iran without a Congressional Declaration of War.[62] Slotkin voted against H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.[63][64]

    Slotkin condemned Rashida Tlaib for defending the “from the river to the sea” slogan.[65]

    Gun policy

    In 2022, Slotkin voted for H.R. 1808, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2022.[66][67] She also introduced H.R. 6370, the Safe Guns, Safe Kids Act, which would require secure firearm storage in the presence of children. The bill was introduced after the 2021 Oxford High School shooting,[68] and passed by the House as part of the Protecting Our Kids Act.[69]

    In 2023, following a mass shooting at Michigan State University in her district, she introduced the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act with Sen. Ed Markey.[70][71] The bill would provide $50 million each year for the next five years towards the research on firearms safety and gun violence prevention by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[72]

    Health care

    Slotkin supports the Affordable Care Act. During her 2020 campaign, she described the protection of health care coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions as the most important issue for her district. She supports allowing Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for those it insures.[73]

    Impeachment

    In September 2019, Slotkin and six other freshman House Democrats authored an opinion piece in The Washington Post calling for an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Its publication led to widespread Democratic support for an impeachment inquiry.[36][74] Slotkin voted in favor of impeaching Trump in both his first and second impeachments.[75][76]

    LGBT rights

    In both the 116th and 117th Congresses, Slotkin received a 100% rating from the Human Rights Campaign‘s (HRC) Congressional Scorecard, which measures “support for equality” among members of Congress based on their voting record.[77][78] She was endorsed by the HRC in each of her campaigns for the House.[79][80]

    Student debt

    During the Trump administration in 2020, Slotkin voted against one amendment, supported by 93% of the Democratic caucus, that would provide $10,000 debt relief for student loan borrowers.[81][82] Slotkin also pushed the Department of Education to assist federal employees with student loan payments during the partial government shutdown.[83] Slotkin voted twice against a Republican-led measure that would have overturned the Biden administration’s student debt forgiveness initiative.[84][85][86] In 2023, that initiative was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.[87]

    Identity politics

    Following the 2024 presidental election, Slotkin said that identity politics “needs to go the way of the dodo“, adding that “people need to be looked at as independent Americans, whatever group they’re from, whatever party they may be from.”[88]

    Personal life

    Slotkin married Dave Moore, a retired Army colonel and Apache helicopter pilot, in 2011.[89][90] They met in Baghdad during Slotkin’s third tour in Iraq and lived in Holly.[89][90] The two filed for divorce in 2023.[90] Slotkin had two stepdaughters while married to Moore.[91]

    Electoral history

    2024 United States Senate election in Michigan
    PartyCandidateVotes%±%
    DemocraticElissa Slotkin2,706,03748.67%−3.59%
    RepublicanMike Rogers2,684,31248.29%+2.53%
    Natural LawDoug Dern41,2430.70%N/A
    GreenDouglas Marsh53,8380.98%N/A
    LibertarianJoseph Solis-Mullen56,4891.04%N/A
    ConstitutionDave Stein49,6730.87%N/A
    Write-in00.00%
    Total votes5,560,647 100.0%
    Michigan’s 7th congressional district, 2022
    PartyCandidateVotes%
    DemocraticElissa Slotkin 192,809 51.7
    RepublicanTom Barrett172,62446.3
    LibertarianLeah Dailey7,2751.9
    Total votes372,708 100.0
    Michigan’s 8th congressional district, 2020[92]
    PartyCandidateVotes%
    DemocraticElissa Slotkin (incumbent) 217,929 50.9
    RepublicanPaul Junge202,51947.3
    LibertarianJoe Hartman7,8961.8
    Total votes428,344 98
    Democratic primary results
    PartyCandidateVotes%
    DemocraticElissa Slotkin 57,819 70.7
    DemocraticChristopher E. Smith23,99629.3
    Total votes81,815 100.0
    Michigan’s 8th congressional district, 2018
    PartyCandidateVotes%
    DemocraticElissa Slotkin 172,880 50.6
    RepublicanMike Bishop (incumbent)159,78246.8
    LibertarianBrian Ellison6,3021.8
    ConstitutionDavid Lillis2,6290.8
    Total votes341,593 100.0
    Democratic gain from Republican

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    		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
    from Michigan’s 8th congressional district
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    		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
    from Michigan’s 7th congressional district
    2023–present    		Succeeded by

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    		 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Michigan
    (Class 1)
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    U.S. Senate
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    		 U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Michigan
    Taking office 2025
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