Well among the crucial battleground states this election is Michigan part of the

Democrats so-called blue wall the stakes are even higher this cycle because of a

highly competitive and a closely watched Senate race in the state.

Representative Alyssa Slotkin is a Democratic Party Senate nominee and I spoke with her moments

ago.

Congresswoman, welcome back to the news hour.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

So you're running for an open Senate seat

against Republican former Congressman Mike Rogers.

How has your race shifted or changed

since the top of the Democratic ticket changed.

What have you seen?

Yeah, I mean, I think it's hard to overstate the amount of energy

that has been generated by the change.

And even I didn't totally anticipate it.

I think whether it's in our cities, our suburbs,

or even our rural conservative areas,

you know, people are walking into offices,

Democratic offices saying like,

hey, I never come to one of these things but how do I

volunteer we've seen the number of people signing up to volunteer just go through the

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