JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 11

SLOTKIN’S CHALLENGE
Elissa Slotkin, who was also 
first elected in 2018, has never 
had an easy elec-
tion; she twice has 
had to raise huge 
sums — $7.5 mil-
lion in 2020 — to 
narrowly hold on 
to her seat.
That’s the case 
even though her foreign poli-
cy knowledge and experience 
are highly regarded; though 
only 45, she already has had a 
career as a CIA analyst and an 

Assistant Secretary of State for 
National Security Affairs. 
Nor is she likely to have an 
easy time this time, and she, 
too, is having to move. Her 
home in Holly has been redis-
tricted into a new 9th District 
that is solidly Republican.
She promptly announced 
she also would move and run 
in a new 7th District centered 
in Lansing, much of which she 
has already been represent-
ing, and that includes heavily 
Democratic Ingham County, 
heavily GOP Livingston and 

some other territory that usu-
ally leans Republican. Bottom 
line: Slotkin is likely to continue 
to have to fight hard every time 
she runs for the next 10 years.

RASHIDA TLAIB AND 
SOUTHFIELD
It is unlikely that any of the four 
Democrats, four Republicans 
and five independents on 
the redistricting commission 
imagined that Tlaib would be 
representing Southfield, Beverly 
Hills, Franklin, Livonia or any 
of the other cities this new 12th 
District includes. Currently, two 
members of Congress live in 
this heavily Democratic district: 
Debbie Dingell and Brenda 
Lawrence, now Michigan’s only 
Black member of Congress. 
But Dingell, who has long 
lived in Dearborn, immediately 
said she would move to the new 
Ann Arbor-area centered dis-

trict. And Lawrence surprised 
everyone by announcing she’
d 
retire.
And then, hours later, 
Rashida Tlaib announced she 
would move to the district, 
which includes Dearborn, and 
run there. Whether she will 
have any primary opposition 
wasn’t known, but any challeng-
er may be daunted; she is now a 
national figure and easily raised 
more than $4 million for the 
2020 primary.
There may well be more sur-
prises ahead — but for Jewish 
Detroit, this round of redistrict-
ing seems likely to have more 
impact than most. We won’t 
know the full picture until after 
Nov. 8, but we do know it’s 
likely to be a bumpy, and very 
expensive, ride. 

 

Jack Lessenberry is a longtime 

Michigan political analyst.

THE 11TH DISTRICT LIKELY 
CONTAINS MORE JEWISH VOTERS 
THAN ALL OTHER MICHIGAN 
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS 
COMBINED.

Elissa 
Slotkin

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