Moderate Democrats, particularly those from “flyover” states, are fed up with the far left direction that Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders are taking the party.
For example, US Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who positions herself as a moderate Democrat even though she supports the entire Biden agenda and voted for both of the Trump impeachments, said this during a recent CNN interview.
“I have always said, I think it’s time we have new leadership,” Slotkin, whose Republican-leaning House seat is the Lansing area, told CNN personality Brianna Keilar.
“I think it’s time, frankly, that some Midwesterners get into leadership. We have a lot of New York and California. I’d like to see more diversity in leadership there. I have made a commitment to my district — I stick to that commitment,” she added.
In January 2021, Slotkin voted “present” (as she did in 2019 as a first-term congresswoman) instead of yes or no when the Democrat-controlled House narrowly reelected Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as Speaker.
The House is likely to get a new Speaker if Republicans gain control after the November elections, with Kevin McCarthy the front-runner to get the gavel.
On CNN, Slotkin, 46, also called attention to an apparent Pelosi flip-flop on her initial opposition to legislation banning stock trading by federal lawmakers.
“I’m glad she’s come around because I couldn’t disagree more with her original statements on this, and I was surprised, I guess when she came out that strongly in the beginning. We are in a moment in our history where we need to do everything possible to restore faith in our government. There’s a real question about whether government is serving people, and I think any perception of impropriety is bad.”
Slotkin continued about the bad look for Democrats, saying, “I’m not accusing everyone who trades stocks of impropriety, but the perception is that you have insider information by being a Member of Congress, and then you use that to make trades, or your husband or wife uses that to make trades that make you money.”
Owing to redistricting, Slotkin is running in Mi-7 and will face Republican Tom Barrett, an Iraq war veteran, and state senator, in the critical midterm elections.
She implied to Keilar that abortion will play a role in the election to the benefit of Democrats, including based on what pro-life Republican women have supposedly told her privately, especially with a reproductive rights initiative on the Michigan ballot.
For example, US Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who positions herself as a moderate Democrat even though she supports the entire Biden agenda and voted for both of the Trump impeachments, said this during a recent CNN interview.
So in other words, just like the rest of the DemonRAT party, she wants to destroy our country also. There’s a lot of sick fuckers in the demobRAT party, besides the drooling fool Bidhole!.
NAME ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This ‘person’ and I use that term very loosely, FALSELY claims to be a moderate, yet supports bidumb’s entire agenda – that is NOT what any sane person would call a moderate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!