Michigan Senate candidate Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) suggested that Democrats should have their own Project 2025-like plan for abortion during a campaign appearance with Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in Ann Arbor.
Slotkin has been in a tight race with her Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, with polling showing a race within the margin of error. The pair battled in their first debate Tuesday night.
“Where’s our project 2025?” Slotkin said on Thursday, according to NBC News. She suggested Democrats should have an in-depth plan on how to tackle abortion in the future, not unlike Project 2025’s in-depth idea about a more conservative future. “Does anyone know what the five-year plan is – or even a 10-year plan – to restore the right to an abortion?”
Rep. Elissa Slotkin, campaigning alongside Senator Jon Ossoff in Ann Arbor, hits Democrats for not being on offense like Republicans are:
“Where’s our project 2025?
“Does anyone know what the five year plan is – or even a 10 year plan – to restore the right to an abortion?” pic.twitter.com/yEcscHia98
— Julie Tsirkin (@JulieNBCNews) October 10, 2024
The Washington Examiner contacted Slotkin’s campaign to offer her a chance to clarify her comments but received no response. Rogers’s campaign declined to comment.
Abortion is a top issue in Michigan as it is in many states this election cycle. Slotkin slammed Rogers in their debate for his past moves against expanding abortion rights as a legislator.
“Mike Rogers had 20 years as a legislator,” Slotkin said. “He voted for every single ban, every restriction, every bill that came across his desk to make it harder for a woman and to ban a woman and her right to choose.”
Rogers’s campaign told the Washington Examiner that he believes states should decide their own abortion laws and that he won’t undo Michigan’s enshrined abortion rights. A spokesman also said he’d vote down a federal abortion ban if elected.
Slotkin’s suggestion is a new one for Democrats, who have never gone so far as to relate any future political aspirations toward Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation plan Democrats have repeatedly bashed.
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A recent Quinnipiac poll showed Slotkin and Rogers tied at 48% among likely voters.
Former President Donald Trump was in Michigan on Thursday, speaking to a crowd at the Detroit Economic Club. He said the whole country will be like Detroit if Vice President Kamala Harris is elected president.