Posted on 03/05/2025 5:30:13 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
The Democratic response to President Donald Trump’sjoint congressional address Tuesday was delivered by a first-term Michigan senator who built an extensive national security background before entering politics less than a decade ago.
Elissa Slotkin gave the Democratic rebuttal to Trump just two months into her tenure in the U.S. Senate, having narrowly defeated Republican Mike Rogers to win an open seat in a presidential battleground state — despite Trump carrying the state. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., praised Slotkin as “nothing short of a rising star in our party” when announcing her selection Thursday.
Slotkin's spoke from Wyandotte, Michigan, a working-class community south of Detroit, as Democrats struggle to settle on a unified message to combat Trump, which was on full display Tuesday night as Trump delivered the longest address to Congress by a president in U.S. history. Some Democratic members held placards in the House chamber with various messages, while scattered boos echoed throughout the speech. The most dramatic moment came when Texas Rep. Al Green was escorted out after heckling the president.
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In her rebuttal, Slotkin told Americans that Trump's policies would make them pay “in every part of your life.” Slotkin spoke for a little more than 10 minutes, a far shorter address than Trump’s record-setting speech, which lasted an hour and 40 minutes.
“It’s late,” she began, “so I promise to be a lot shorter than what you just watched.”
Slotkin focused on economic issues amid Trump’s Monday announcement that 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada would begin Tuesday. The move has reignited fears of a North American trade war, which has already shown signs of driving up inflation and stalling growth.
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The FBI and the CIA should be redefining their Mission Statements to reflect the realities of their responsibilities.
I hope her father has disowned her. That was a disgrace.
She’ll a loser. Knows nothing about economics. Same boring hollow platitudes. She’s a bore.
this fat toad was a CIA paper pusher and acts like she was James Bond.
Slotkin was horrible. She lied when she said Musk was going through our health care records and our bank accounts. Only the insurance companies and the IRS are doing that.
She lied when she said President Trump doesn’t thing the US is exceptional.
Just a liar.
She’s a lifetime CIA analyst and about a clear deep state asset as exists.
Biological men competing teenage girls.
That issues may not RANK as most important by namby pamby pollsters because it is probably never given as a topic to rank.
But it is the issue which ANGERS Americans the most.
It’s the elephant in the room.
The response from Democrats is NO response.
That’s fine with me.
To use a medical metaphor it is a malignancy on their party.
Just don’t see how Democrats can EVER win back the White House with their support for perverts.
“”Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., praised Slotkin as “nothing short of a rising star in our party” when announcing her selection Thursday.””
Is that because all your other “stars” have fizzled out? Time to refresh? Good luck.
Actually, you did.
That's why Trump won.
If Schumer is praising her, she must be more corrupt and evil than we realized.
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Slutkin said nothing to rouse here neofascist colleagues to bipartisanship.
They are toast, every Dem Senator voted to have trans males
allowed into school girl’s games and locker rooms.
Where was Slutkin’s apology to America?
I suspect this was a California-type "victory": Keep finding and counting votes until the Democrat wins - up to two weeks after the election - then declare victory.
Did anyone watch the anemic response?
She more than likely had to cheat to win her seat. How popular is she really?
they dance like white people...
She has broken ranks a few times, for example voting for the Laken Riley Act, and she is pro-Israel, being Jewish. So no chance she will be on a Democratic Presidential ticket.
“Our priorities, in my mind, should start with people’s pocketbooks and their kids. And I think the message got muddled for a lot of people, certainly at the national levelTypical Democrat.
Their history "in her mind" started this morning when she woke up (pun intended).
The last four years didn't exist, had no effect, for "people’s pocketbooks or their kids".
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