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Sen. Elissa Slotkin
Newly minted Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin has had some good fortune since winning her election in November. Earlier this month, she was tasked with delivering the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's address to Congress, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer touting her as a rising star in the party.
"America wants change, but there's a responsible way to make change and a reckless way, and we can make that change without forgetting who we are as a country and as a democracy," she said during her speech, an obvious dig at the way Trump is managing the government.
Now, Vanity Fair has featured her in a flattering profile titled, "How Elissa Slotkin, a Moderate Michigan Democrat, Is Fighting Trump Tooth and Nail."
Here's a sampling of the story by Marie Brenner, writer-at-large for Vanity Fair:
I had come to see her in early December as she ramped up plans for her first 100 days in office—and for confronting President Donald Trump’s return to power. She could already feel, she said, “the cold wind from the dragon swinging his tail up and down Pennsylvania Avenue.”
It was the first of several lengthy talks we would have over the next three months as Slotkin, 48, found her footing. And indeed she did. A month into Trump’s second term she would become a persistent presence on the Hill, on social media, and on television (whether talking with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour or the panelists on The View), denouncing the excesses of the administration. Upon returning from the Munich Security Conference in February, she would go so far as to openly call out the Trump team’s “ignorance” (for sidelining Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in peace talks) and Trump himself (for appeasing Russia’s Vladimir Putin). “Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave right now,” she said, later adding, “If you’re Vladimir Putin, you’re popping Champagne in Moscow.”
The story mentions her delivering the Democratic response to Trump's Congressional address from Wyandotte, stating that she 'deftly reminded the country of the American dream that her home state symbolizes.'"
To read the full profile click here.
