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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. Michigan is a big, diverse,

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Speaker 1: beautiful place that has given so much opportunity to so

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Speaker 1: many people, and that is something that we should all

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Speaker 1: be deeply proud of. If you can do big things

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Speaker 1: in Michigan, you could do big things in the whole country,

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Speaker 1: because we are a microcosm of the country here. We

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Speaker 1: are home to Democrats, Republicans and independents and everything in between,

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Speaker 1: and that's not going to change anytime too. We are

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Speaker 1: on this boat together.

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Speaker 2: Democratic Congresswoman Melissa Slotkin of Michigan, just one Michigan Senate

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Speaker 2: seat now officially called by the Associated Press, urging unity

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Speaker 2: within the state during a speech that we witnessed last night.

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Speaker 2: Joining us now fresh from her own re election win,

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Speaker 2: is Slotkin's colleague, Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens of Michigan. Congresswoman,

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Speaker 2: thanks for being back on Bloomberg. Good to see you

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Speaker 2: on balance of power, and congratulations on your win. How

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Speaker 2: come that support for Democrats not bubble to the top

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Speaker 2: of the ticket in your critical swing state.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, I'm not here to armchair quarterback. Just as

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Speaker 3: the data is fresh on the printing press age. Look

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Speaker 3: there were a lot of things, and Kamala Harris reminded

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Speaker 3: of the upper reminded of us of this every time

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Speaker 3: she came to Michigan that were the underdogs. There were

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Speaker 3: a lot of things that were in some ways inherently

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Speaker 3: stacked against us. A late arrival to the ticket, a

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Speaker 3: new ticket, some of the confusion surrounding that, and one

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Speaker 3: thing with Alissa Sakin that she knows how to do.

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Speaker 3: And she told me this morning at nearly three am,

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Speaker 3: just because I had the chance to talk to her,

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Speaker 3: and we're so close, that she had a really small

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Speaker 3: margin of victory, but it was going to be a

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Speaker 3: margin of victory, and she almost got it to the

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Speaker 3: number before all the votes were in, but they were

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Speaker 3: talking to clerks and getting the talent in and so

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Speaker 3: these are just close elections and there's a lot to

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Speaker 3: dissect on it.

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Speaker 4: I'm here in Oakland County.

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't want to be the highest vote

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Speaker 3: get or necessarily in my congressional district, but I was.

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Speaker 3: And in part we got to look at that what

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Speaker 3: went wrong. We're going to be talking about that, but

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Speaker 3: we also got to look to the future too. I mean,

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Speaker 3: in many respects, this election just seems like a big

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Speaker 3: wave in a lot of respects, and we've just.

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Speaker 4: We've got to look forward.

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Speaker 3: And not be sitting around talking about twenty sixteen, twenty twenty,

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. I mean, we've been a governing party.

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Speaker 3: We've done a lot of great things. Mike Johnson saying

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Speaker 3: he wants to repeal the Chips Act, which is creating

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Speaker 3: jobs in Michigan, manufacturing jobs.

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Speaker 4: Allowing us to compete with China.

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Speaker 3: Trump's tariff only policies and I gotta talk to his

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Speaker 3: administration about.

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Speaker 4: This at some point, they're not going to work.

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Speaker 3: Tariff only policies will not work for my small business

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Speaker 3: is in my manufacturers, and I remember having these conversations

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Speaker 3: with the administration in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty. So

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Speaker 3: we got to find consensus. People are sick of the

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Speaker 3: personality wars. They're obviously tired about the high cost of

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Speaker 3: food and groceries. And sometimes after six years, you know,

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Speaker 3: Democrats took.

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Speaker 4: The House, help the House lost the House. Biden is in.

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Speaker 4: You know, they just make a little switch, and we'll

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Speaker 4: obviously still see what will happen with the House of

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Speaker 4: Representatives too.

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Speaker 5: Well as we consider switches here. Congress women. We've been

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Speaker 5: talking all cycle about the blue wall states that lit

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Speaker 5: up on my electoral map. Right now are bright red,

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Speaker 5: all three of them. So for those questioning whether Michigan

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Speaker 5: is still a brick in the blue wall after this election,

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Speaker 5: what would you say?

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Speaker 3: You know, it's it's a big loss for us here

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Speaker 3: and I was with our governor and the enthusiasm was up.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of organized Democrats. There's amazing grassroot things

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Speaker 3: that happen at the local level. And it's a reminder

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Speaker 3: as we'll head into other statewide elections in two years

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Speaker 3: from now house seats that I still want to win

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Speaker 3: here in Michigan, that we're going to have work to do.

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Speaker 3: And we've got to recognize that we also had very

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Speaker 3: high turnout in Michigan that was unique for us compared

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Speaker 3: to other blue wall states in the frankly other states

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Speaker 3: around the country. Our Secretary of State reported that we

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Speaker 3: had our highest voter turnout in history in twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: four and Trump won Michigan, So we got to reckon

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Speaker 3: with that. I'm really proud of the people who worked

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Speaker 3: in Michigan on the campaigns, these campaign staffers, I mean

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Speaker 3: they just take on such unique positions. And I don't

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Speaker 3: think there was any fault to theirs. I think Kamala

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Speaker 3: Harrison rose to the occasion. Joe Biden conceded or suspended

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Speaker 3: his campaign.

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Speaker 2: She picked your governor, Wressian Whitmer. What would have been

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Speaker 2: the outcome in Michigan.

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Speaker 3: Now, our governor was playing a big role in her race,

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Speaker 3: and it is looking at some of these dynamics.

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Speaker 4: She was our governor played a big role rather and.

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Speaker 3: Look, she remains very popular and a lot of times

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Speaker 3: what people don't understand. You got people who you vote

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Speaker 3: for Congress, people you vote for for governor, and it

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Speaker 3: feels different for the presidency. I mean, we're federalist system.

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Speaker 4: And you see that.

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Speaker 3: I mean there were people who voted for Whitmer in

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Speaker 3: Michigan and just two years ago, and I know they

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Speaker 3: voted for for Trump.

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Speaker 4: This last time.

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Speaker 3: And we're going to sit here and agonize some great

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Speaker 3: long form journalism pieces and all this and that. It's

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Speaker 3: like I got to get back to Washington next week

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Speaker 3: and get back to work for people. I mean, we

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Speaker 3: got a budget to pass, We've got a ron to

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Speaker 3: deal with. I'm certainly still going to work on my

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Speaker 3: critical supply chain critical mineral bills that we'd like to

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Speaker 3: get done before the end of the term. At least

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Speaker 3: introduced something along those lines, and we we just got to.

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Speaker 4: Keep moving forward.

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Speaker 3: I look, I lived through the twenty twenty or excuse me,

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Speaker 3: twenty ten election cycle. I was in Wisconsin and I

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Speaker 3: was younger then, and I just remember feeling like, holy smokes.

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Speaker 4: You know, Obama called it the Great Shalaki.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's Ted Strickland lost Wisconsin and it was

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Speaker 3: a bummer, and we lost governorships, we lost the House,

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Speaker 3: and on and on.

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Speaker 4: That's not what this is.

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Speaker 3: Per se, but something that we just have to own

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Speaker 3: up to that frankly, Donald Trump didn't do four years ago,

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Speaker 3: is peaceful transfer of power. You see, President Biden already

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Speaker 3: invited him to the White House. I expect President Biden

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Speaker 3: to be at his inauguration, at Donald Trump's inauguration. You know,

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Speaker 3: there is that graciousness. There are these personality factors. We

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Speaker 3: spent a lot of time talking about personality, and look know,

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Speaker 3: people know who this guy is. I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 3: deal with him as a member of Congress and him

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Speaker 3: as president, and together we've got to somehow figure it

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Speaker 3: out for this country, and we lived through a nightmare

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Speaker 3: scenario with COVID hitting our country. We obviously had the vaccine.

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Speaker 3: We're really proud to produce that here in Michigan. I

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Speaker 3: know manufacturing brings people together. I'm going to continue to

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Speaker 3: serve my constituents, stand up for their freedoms, their values,

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Speaker 3: and I'm going to continue to help people because that's

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Speaker 3: what my job's all about.

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Speaker 5: All Right, Congressoman, we will leave it on that note.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much for joining us. Democratic Congresswoman Haley

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Speaker 5: Stevens of Michigan. We appreciate your time