Something just broke for me. It was the absolute straw that broke... by Elissa Slotkin

Something just broke for me. It was the absolute straw that broke the camel's back.

Elissa Slotkin

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My constituents expect me to make an objective decision. by Elissa Slotkin

My constituents expect me to make an objective decision.

Im not waking up in the morning looking for some golden poll. by Elissa Slotkin

Im not waking up in the morning looking for some golden poll.

The issue that got to me was this idea that the President, the most powerful man in the world, reached out to a foreigner, a foreign leader, and asked him to dig up dirt on an American.

I was trained as intelligence analyst, so we read the facts and make an assessment, and that's what I plan to do when the facts are presented.

Being able to text folks and say,' you know, I'm really getting hit up on this issue, how have you been handling it ?' ' I'm not sure how to translate my service into something that's relatable. How do you guys do that ?' we have a lot in common.

Having the sitting President of the United States, use leverage over a foreign leader to get dirt on an opponent, that very basic idea, I think cut for us, as national security people, just close to the bone.

None of us is ever going to get in a Twitter war with anyone else, if we have a concern with someone, we're going to go right up and talk to Chrissy Houlahan about it and we're not going to add unhelpful rhetoric to an already bad tone coming out of Washington.

I realized after a few people said it, that they were used to either a man running for office and the wife is way in the background, you know, quiet, not a part of the campaign, or there is a strong woman who's running, we've had strong women who have run and won, but their husband is nowhere to be seen. So when they saw a strong woman and a strong man together, that was new for them.

I am doing everything I can to explain to people how I came to the decision. Because my hope is, even if they disagree with the decision, they give me the benefit of the doubt.

I never want to be disrespectful to anyone who served, especially a woman who has broken glass ceilings, but you have to hear what people in your district are saying, and I got a very loud and clear signal from people across the aisle that they wanted new leadership.

It just was meant to send a really clear signal from a large group of freshmen what are the things that are important to us, it was something that was requested by Tim Ryan, and so it's just a way for us to talk about what is important to us as a class.

Our campaign finance laws are so broken that in order to compete you have to raise a significant amount of money, if that means raising from outside the state I'd rather have that than the influence of a corporate PAC.