Michigan: Fourth-term US member Haley Stevens has launched her work for Michigan’s available US senate seats on Tuesday with a movie focused on the financial crisis caused by President Donald Trump‘s dangerous tariffs policies. Walking through a bit full of pickup trucks and SUVs to make the event that she’s the member who will defend the state’s crucial auto industry, she says” His chaos and foolish tariffs are putting tens of thousands of Michigan jobs at risk. “
” We absolutely need to put an end to the conflict plan,” Stevens said in an appointment with The Associated Press. Stevens, a Democrat, is the third well-known member to add what is quickly becoming one of the world’s most-watched Senate tribes, with the Republicans ‘ 53-47 lot at stake in a battle state Trump won in November.
Immediately a best possible candidate after Democratic senator Gary Peters chose never to seek reelection, Stevens did oppose State senator Mallory McMorrow and former presidential candidate and common health official Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic primary.
On the Republican side, former US representative Mike Rogers is trying again after losing to Democrat Elissa Slotkin in the state’s 2024 US senate race by just 19,000 votes.
Stevens will seek to defend her tenure in Congress in the Democratic primary as McMorrow and El-Sayed establish themselves as outsiders. McMorrow is known nationally for her viral moments and El-Sayed has the backing of Sen Bernie Sanders.
Before Congress, Stevens served on the US Treasury’s auto task force following the 2008 financial crisis as President Barack Obama’s administration bailed out General Motors and Chrysler. She said Trump’s taxes on imports are creating another crisis for the Michigan economy, which rides or stalls based on the auto industry’s condition.
” People are very much at a boiling point around the uncertainty of tariffs,” she said.
Stevens has been an ardent voice from Michigan against Trump’s tariffs, particularly those leveraged against Canada. She said they are disruptive to the auto industry and are having a “dizzying” effect on companies of all sizes whose leaders cannot make plans as Trump repeatedly changes positions.
However, Stevens is among the Democrats who have sought to clarify they are not inherently anti-tariff. Democratic Gov Gretchen Whitmer recently gave a speech in Washington calling for tariffs to be used like a “scalpel. ” Shawn Fain, president of the the nation’s top auto worker union based in Michigan, endorsed Trump’s auto tariffs as leverage aimed at bringing back domestic manufacturing jobs.
Stevens, who sits on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, said she too would support tariffs that are strategically designed to make America competitive with China’s manufacturing, but said Trump’s approach is too chaotic to be effective.
” What I do not support are shoot-by-the-hip, erratic tariffs that give us no rules of the road or path to understand how we can succeed,” Stevens said.
Stevens sailed to victory in her last election representing Oakland County, a key voting block in the battleground state. After flipping what had been a reliably Republican seat in 2018 and narrowly defeating her opponent in 2020, she cruised to reelection in 2022 and 2024 after her district was redrawn and became more favourable to Democrats.
