Rep. Elissa Slotkin is following every rule, taking every precaution, doing everything she can to reach voters without putting them in danger. It's a source of pride, but it’s also a source of tremendous uncertainty.
This is the second in a series of stories on Rep. Elissa Slotkin’s re-election campaign in Michigan’s 8th District. Read the first installmentLANSING, Mich.—It’s difficult enough to engage in conversation through a pair of face masks, standing 6 feet apart inside a cramped, cacophonous storefront, humming vents and scraping metal intruding at every syllable. Add in the overwhelming aroma of salt and melted butter, and keeping one’s focus is all but impossible. But Rep.
“Those stoop conversations were a pivotal way that we won. I can see that in our data. The areas where we actually took time and knocked on people’s doors, … we did better than in precincts that we didn't have the volunteers to get to,” Slotkin tells me, speaking through a royal blue face mask adorned with black and gold patterns. “The thing I’m struggling with the most is that personal conversation with a stranger who is undecided, who is a swing voter, and who isn’t sure.
“It’s frustrating,” she tells me a short while later, sitting at a picnic table outside local party headquarters, just before visiting the popcorn shop. “I’m hypersensitive to getting too close and invading their space on their own porch. I’m struggling with that personal connection.” Slotkin tried to give a game performance. Speaking directly to the camera in the middle of the auditorium, which was live-streaming the event on Facebook, the congresswoman recounted her 2018 campaign, listed her first-term accomplishments and made the case for a return trip to Washington. I’m not sure how it came across to viewers at home, but those of us inside the room felt more like actors on the set of a movie about a campaign than attendees at a real-life rally.
“The last time when we kicked off in Rochester Hills, you know, we had 250 people stuffed into a little office. I had to stand on a bucket in a hallway because that was the only way to talk to the huge crowd. That’s just not possible now,” Slotkin said wistfully. “There’s no getting around it.
Slotkin issued an open casting call for ideas. What she heard was equal parts innovative and amusing. An art festival. A local golf tournament. Two concerts planned for opposite ends of the district. An amateur baseball showcase. A horse competition. Three different farmers markets. A drive-in movie theatre. A car show. A fruit festival. A putt-putt golf course. A special garbage day where people bring documents to a shared shredding truck.
In the case of Slotkin, her leg up on the competition is all the more pronounced because of Michigan’s late primary. By the time it became clear, on the morning of August 5, that Slotkin’s opponent would be Republican Paul Junge, there were just 90 days remaining until the election. That might seem like an eternity for weary voters.
A career journeyman, with stints as a prosecutor, television anchor and Trump administration official, Junge has raised some $775,000 for the campaign—two-thirds of which he contributed himself. The haul allowed Junge to run ads introducing himself during the primary, a down payment on the fall campaign.
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