U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens enters race to represent Michigan in U.S. Senate

LANSING, Mich. – Fourth-term U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens has launched her tally for Michigan’s unfastened U.S. Senate spot connected Tuesday with a video focused connected the economical situation caused by President Donald Trump’s volatile tariffs policies.

Walking done a batch afloat of pickup trucks and SUVs to marque the lawsuit that she’s the campaigner who volition support the state's captious car industry, she says “His chaos and reckless tariffs are putting tens of thousands of Michigan jobs astatine risk.”

“We perfectly request to enactment an extremity to the chaos agenda,” Stevens said successful an interrogation with The Associated Press.

Stevens, a Democrat, is the 4th well-known campaigner to articulation what is rapidly becoming 1 of the nation’s most-watched Senate races, with the Republicans' 53-47 bulk astatine involvement successful a battleground state Trump won successful November.

Quickly a apical imaginable contender aft Democratic Sen. Gary Peters chose not to question reelection, Stevens volition reason State Sen. Mallory McMorrow and erstwhile gubernatorial campaigner and nationalist wellness authoritative Abdul El-Sayed successful the Democratic primary.

On the Republican side, erstwhile U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers is trying again aft losing to Democrat Elissa Slotkin successful the state’s 2024 U.S. Senate contention by conscionable 19,000 votes.

Stevens volition question to support her tenure successful Congress successful the Democratic superior arsenic McMorrow and El-Sayed found themselves arsenic outsiders. McMorrow is known nationally for her viral moments and El-Sayed has the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Before Congress, Stevens served connected the U.S. Treasury's car task unit pursuing the 2008 fiscal situation arsenic President Barack Obama's medication bailed retired General Motors and Chrysler. She said Trump's taxes connected imports are creating different situation for the Michigan economy, which rides oregon stalls based connected the car industry's condition.

“People are precise overmuch astatine a boiling constituent astir the uncertainty of tariffs,” she said.

Stevens has been an ardent dependable from Michigan against Trump’s tariffs, peculiarly those leveraged against Canada. She said they are disruptive to the car manufacture and are having a “dizzying” effect connected companies of each sizes whose leaders cannot marque plans arsenic Trump repeatedly changes positions.

However, Stevens is among the Democrats who person sought to clarify they are not inherently anti-tariff. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer precocious gave a speech successful Washington calling for tariffs to beryllium utilized similar a “scalpel.” Shawn Fain, president of the the nation’s apical car idiosyncratic national based successful Michigan, endorsed Trump’s car tariffs arsenic leverage aimed astatine bringing backmost home manufacturing jobs.

Stevens, who sits connected the House Select Committee connected the Chinese Communist Party, said she excessively would enactment tariffs that are strategically designed to marque America competitory with China's manufacturing, but said Trump’s attack is excessively chaotic to beryllium effective.

“What I bash not enactment are shoot-by-the-hip, erratic tariffs that springiness america nary rules of the roadworthy oregon way to recognize however we tin succeed,” Stevens said.

Stevens sailed to victory successful her past predetermination representing Oakland County, a cardinal voting artifact successful the battleground state. After flipping what had been a reliably Republican seat successful 2018 and narrowly defeating her hostile successful 2020, she cruised to reelection successful 2022 and 2024 aft her territory was redrawn and became much favorable to Democrats.

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