Democrats made a late move last cycle to target GOP Rep. Mike Bishop in Michigan’s 8th District, which includes Lansing and some of suburban Detroit. However, this seat swung from 51-48 Romney to 51-44 Trump, and Bishop won his second term 56-39. This district is still competitive enough that it could be in reach in a wave, and the Detroit News reports that local Democrats are “buzzing” about the possibility that former Defense Department official Elissa Slotkin could run.
Slotkin, whom the paper says was “the principal adviser under two secretaries of defense on the Middle East, Europe and NATO, Russia, Africa and the Western Hemisphere” and also was in Iraq with the CIA, recently moved back to Michigan from D.C. Slotkin herself said earlier this month that she’s “seriously considering” getting in, and Bishop’s vote for Trumpcare “only strengthened my resolve to get in.”