Sen. Elissa Slotkin:
I mean, first of all, I think we need to be talking about what we want to bring to people affirmatively, proactively. We can’t just be the party of no, no, no, status quo, no change.
We got to talk about how we want responsible change, smart change, not reckless change, and what that looks like, particularly on supporting a strong middle class. Like, we have got to have a strong middle class in this country or we are in trouble.
So I think keeping a sort of rigorous focus on that would be helpful, but then just understanding that we got to get to those voters who don’t want to be gotten to, right, who are not coming to a protest, not coming to an event, but they swing elections in places like Michigan. For them, they’re worried about, again, their pocketbooks, their kids.
That means Social Security. That means the economy writ large and how Trump is walking us into a recession. So we got to get the middle into the fight by focusing on the issues they’re most concerned about, in addition to the good work we do on democracy and corruption, which is vital, given what Donald Trump is doing, but not always the way we get to those middle voters.
