Dan Campbell (Lions' photo) and Sen. Slotkin
"Elissa Slotkin, serving her first year as a U.S. senator, is on a mission to help contain and defeat President Trump and is emphasizing that Democrats need to change the public perception of the party as 'weak and woke,' Politico reports.
Adam Wren of Politico writes:
In the first of a series of speeches (on Thursday) about the Democratic Party’s path out of the wilderness, the Michigan senator said she will span everything from strategy to tactics and tone, acknowledging public perception of the party as “weak and woke” needs to change. She is urging Democrats to “fucking retake the flag” with appeals to voters’ sense of patriotism, to adopt “the goddamn Alpha energy” of Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and to embrace an “airing out” of potential 2028 presidential candidates in a broadly contested primary.
“Trump is doing a whole bunch of things that I think are a threat to our economy and a threat to our Democracy and I have a responsibility on behalf of my state to point that out and try to do something about that,” she told POLITICO in an interview outlining her speech ahead of delivering it to an audience of home state Democrats and volunteers in Lansing on Thursday afternoon.
