Elissa Slotkin Wants to Know Who'll Stand Up to Trump If He Loses

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The responses @RepSlotkin got when she asked what Milley, Esper, Chad Wolf and Ratcliffe would “be willing to do and not do” if Trump refused to accept a loss: https://politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/26/elissa-slotkin-michigan-election-day-431853…
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BRIGHTON, Mich.—Elissa Slotkin should have been satisfied.

For the past several hours, the Democratic congresswoman had supervised a team of 40 volunteers churning out a Ford-style assembly line of postcards that would be mailed out to thousands of 8th District residents who had requested absentee ballots but not yet returned them. Spread across picnic tables at Huron Meadows Metropark, teams of Slotkin supporters—masked, socially distant and bundled in layers to stave off the October chill—moved through piles of individualized 4x6 notes, making sure they got stamps and address labels, stacking them for sorting and mailing.

It was the sort of scene you couldn’t have imagined four years ago. Brighton is a conservative town in ultraconservative Livingston County. Democrats have had no political footprint here in decades. There was hardly a Hillary Clinton yard sign to be found in 2016, much less a sophisticated, well-financed Democratic Party apparatus. But Slotkin’s relentless courtship of the political center, joined with President Donald Trump’s antagonizing of well-educated suburbs like this one, has produced a groundswell of pro-Democrat activity in some of the most traditionally Republican areas of her district. Now, two weeks out from Election Day, the first-term incumbent and her small army of volunteers were pouring it on, refusing to settle for what internal polling indicated would be a safe victory in the 8th District. Harnessing the extraordinary intensity on the ground, Slotkin and her team were sending out a final 4,000 postcards, bringing their total close to 28,000, aiming to push turnout to historic levels and secure Democratic victories up and down the ticket.

So why wasn’t Slotkin satisfied?

She worries that just winning is no longer enough. With the president regularly lobbing allegations of a rigged election—one that he cannot possibly lose fair and square—Slotkin, a former CIA officer, worries that America could be hurtling toward a civil and constitutional crisis. This is not what a vulnerable freshman campaigner is often preoccupied with down the home stretch of their maiden reelection campaign. But Slotkin can think of little else these days.

As the event wrapped up, and we found seats at a table beneath the Sunset Ridge Shelter, I asked what was on her mind.

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[Miguelito Loveless]

1. No one one the Right

in office, win or lose that office, is going to stand up to Trump.

If they lose, then they are all in to wreck as much destruction as possible to exact vengeance on disloyal voters, and to solidify their fascist cred with Fox News and Right-wing billionaires funding think tanks.

If they win, they will dare not oppose Trump, and will be gleeful to do even more damage and set themselves up for power and self-enrichment (bribes, insider trading, ect).