Although the Friday Politico “Playbook” story about freshman Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin was ostensibly focused on her not very convincing engagement with Democrats “looking for clues about which path it should chart out of the electoral wilderness,” it was more than obvious that it was in reality not very subtle hype for her as a presidential contender in 2028.
And speaking of “clues” it shows that Politico reporter Adam Wren, who produced this Slotkin 2028 campaign promo laughably dressed up in Slotkin’s existential political “search,” seems to have little awareness of the sad state of the current Democrat party as you can read in “Slotkin finds Dems at a crossroads.”
The former CIA analyst and Michigan senator is still sorting through the rubble of her party’s losses last year, looking for clues about which path it should chart out of the electoral wilderness.
Just a CIA analyst now trying to pass herself off as just a good “corn-fed” midwestern gal (by way of New York City) who is clamoring for a higher political office. She was in Kansas City to meet with a focus group of seven voters:
Slotkin, who stepped squarely into national spotlight after delivering the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s joint session earlier this year and never really left it, wanted to know why — and how to bring them back into the Democratic fold.
Playbook exclusively observed her conversation with low-propensity voters — all Kansas City residents who had voted in past elections but not last year, a mix of Republicans and Democrats recruited by a professional focus group recruiting firm — as they expressed their reasons for not casting a vote for either Trump or Kamala Harris in 2024.
Wow! How scientific! A group of SEVEN “low propensity voters” (Republicans and Democrats) that we later learn were picked by a Democrat PAC. However, let’s not interrupt Mr. Wren while he is on a roll promoting the political career of a Democrat politician desperately trying to promote herself, oops, promoting the future of her party.
The voters said they didn’t like the presidential candidates. They rejected them on the grounds of both style and substance. They didn’t like their “bickering.” They said the candidates were too old. They said Washington didn’t care about their lives. Didn’t talk enough about issues that mattered like healthcare.
They pined for more aspirational candidates, like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.
Republicans in this group “pined” for Bill Clinton and Barack Obama? What more can we expect from this Democrat selected group?
The listening session — organized by Majority Democrats PAC, the new group on a mission to build the broadest governing coalition possible — offered a window on not only a post-trust, post-institutional American political landscape, but also the vast middle of the country’s ideological space. They viewed politics as a net negative in their lives, something that harmed more than helped them.
And now we come to the very crux of this story which is what Wren really wants you to see through the laughable din of the Democrats “looking for clues” pretense:
Amid it all, Slotkin seemed to be thinking a lot about 2028. The night before, at a town hall organized by the progressive veterans group Vote Vets, where nearly 500 people packed in a convention center room and Playbook saw a dozen or so folks turned away, she discussed points of what she called Project 2029 — not to be confused with her Slotkin War Plan™ — which included proposals such as declaring a housing national emergency and offering a competitive public insurance option.
In recent weeks, she has rallied with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in Pittsburgh for the state’s Supreme Court candidates. She’s expected to campaign in Ohio for Rep. Marcy Kaptur.
For Slotkin, all of this raises a larger question: Is she herself positioning for a 2028 presidential campaign?
And surprise, surprise we finally learn what this little, mostly useless, exercise is really about. Hyping Slotkin 2028.
Poor Adam Wren should quickly get up to speed on why there is likely no Democrat presidential future for Slotkin by watching her recent July 29, 2025 train wreck interview on “Breaking Points.” And the extreme heat came not from the somewhat conservative host, Saagar Enjeti, but from the far left Krystal Ball who now unfortunately reflects much of the sad attitudes of the Democrat party.
Oh, and does anybody out there think that Adam Wren would give such a tongue bath to a Republican leader as he gave to Elissa Slotkin? The only surprise is how little Wren seems to know about the current state of the Democrat party.
