Democratic Senator Slotkin reaches for the political center in...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Her party is grappling with how to respond to Trump's return to power, tensions illustrated by its leadership's choice of a moderate to deliver the rebuttal even as members further to the left heckled Trump and walked out during his prime time address.
34% : Democratic U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a moderate elected in a state carried by Donald Trump last year, made a case for bipartisan values and invoked former Republican president Ronald Reagan in her party's rebuttal to Trump's address to Congress.
30% : She sympathized with voters worried about immigration and government waste, two areas that Trump boasted in his speech that he has brought needed reform, but argued that his approach to both were wrong.
24% : "After the spectacle that just took place in the Oval Office last week, Reagan must be rolling over in his grave," Slotkin said, referring to Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's contentious conversation last week that prompted Trump to pause all aid to the U.S. ally.
17% : " Slotkin argued that Trump's policies were raising prices and hurting the middle class, a group that shifted away from supporting Democrats to backing Trump in the November election.
9% : In her criticism of Trump's handling of Russia's war in Ukraine, Slotkin invoked one of the most storied Republican presidents of the last generation - Ronald Reagan - to argue that Trump has ditched the values that Republicans of yesterday would have stood for.

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