Why doesn’t she just run in the new district her home is in?
She’d have to primary the incumbent is my guess. Michigan lost a House seat and hers was dropped.
The old 12th was a guaranteed situation for a Democrat....never getting a Republican above 35 percent. Her ‘home’ district (where she lives is now mostly made into district #6), and a fair number of white voters to black voters (6 to 1).
The new District #12 is about 20 miles to the east of the old district and covers most of western Detroit. A bigger black population there and she’ll face real competition from within the black community.
District #13 is now Detroit-city itself, where it’s a 5 to 4 black to white voter ratio. I think the new issue is that she’s not ‘black’ enough for #13.
Dingell is forced into competition and isn’t really that capable of handling it.
Not only that, there is no requirement to live in the District, only within the State.
She probably lives in DC anyway.
I guess Michigan actually has a law requiring people on the ballot to live in their own districts. That isn’t the case in at least some other states.