Demo­c­rat Rep Elis­sa Slotkin wins Sen­ate pri­ma­ry in Michi­gan

Incum­bent Rep. Elis­sa Slotkin won the Demo­c­ra­t­ic pri­ma­ry elec­tion for Sen­ate in Michi­gan on Tues­day, set­ting up a short gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign before Novem­ber. Rep. Elis­sa Slotkin, D‑Mich., defeat­ed actor Hill Harp­er in the state’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic pri­ma­ry to fill out­go­ing Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen. Deb­bie Stabenow’s seat. Slotkin cur­rent­ly rep­re­sents Michi­gan in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. She was pre­vi­ous­ly a Mid­dle East ana­lyst at the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency (CIA). She first ran for office in 2018 and defeat­ed a Repub­li­can incum­bent, flip­ping her dis­trict. KEY PRIMARIES IN 4 STATES ON TUESDAY TO SET TABLE FOR NOVEMBER SENATE, HOUSE SHOW­DOWNSIn her Sen­ate cam­paign, Slotkin posi­tioned her­self as a mod­er­ate in the swing state of Michi­gan. She has point­ed to her work under both for­mer Pres­i­dent Oba­ma and for­mer Pres­i­dent Bush to make this point. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS ‘INVISIBLE’ IN CRITICAL SWING STATE OF MICHIGAN: REPORT­Slotkin has also remai …