Rep. Elissa Slotkin says Democrats want ‘new blood’ in 2024

Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., mentioned the Democratic celebration wants “new blood” in Congress and the White Home in 2024, however dedicated to supporting President Joe Biden if he runs for re-election.

Throughout an interview on NBC Information’ “Meet the Press” Sunday, Slotkin, 46, who’s operating for re-election this 12 months, was requested whether or not she would assist Biden within the subsequent presidential election.

Slotkin mentioned that she is going to if he decides to run once more and she or he expects the celebration will assist him as effectively.

However she additionally famous, “I’ve been very vocal, together with with my very own management within the Home, that we’d like a brand new technology. We’d like new blood, interval, throughout the Democratic Get together — within the Home, the Senate and the White Home. I feel that the nation has been saying that.”

“I’ve mentioned, ‘I feel we’d like new leaders’ I might like to see some Midwestern leaders in there, proper? That’s been vital to me, to mirror the center of the nation, we’re right here too,” mentioned Slotkin, who was amongst a handful of congressional lawmakers who voted in opposition to Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s, 82, management marketing campaign.

In July, Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., additionally known as for a generational change in management, including that he did not suppose Biden, 79, ought to run for president once more.

“I feel Joe Biden has served our nation admirably with precept and with decency at a time after we certainly wanted it,” Phillips mentioned in a radio interview on WCCO’s “The Chad Hartman Present.” “However I’m a part of a caucus right here in Congress the place three prime leaders are over 80 years previous, the place the president can be over 80 within the subsequent election. And I feel it’s time for a generational change. I’m not too shy to say that I do imagine that the majority of my colleagues really feel the identical approach.”

Whereas Biden has shied away from declaring he’ll run in 2024 unequivocally, NBC Information reported final month that he informed the Rev. Al Sharpton in September he’ll search a second time period in a personal dialog on the White Home.

“I’m going to do it once more,” the president mentioned as he posed for {a photograph} within the Roosevelt Room with Sharpton, who can be an MSNBC host, in response to an official of Sharpton’s Nationwide Motion Community who recounted Sharpton’s description. “I’m going.”