Slotkin Won in 2024. Now She’s Telling Her Party Why It Lost.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin has a diagnosis for her own party, and she didn’t soften it. The Democrats, she says, need new leadership — and they never really got up off the mat after 2024. She said it Wednesday on SiriusXM’s “Straight Shooter,” to host Stephen A. Smith. Every day, she told him, the party argues with itself about which way to go. “That’s why I believe we need significant new leadership,” she said. “The old models are no longer working, and that includes the Democratic Party.” She meant it broadly—the House and the Senate both. And she meant it as


