'I think Slotkin is still pretty clearly the favorite. Sarah Anthony, D-Lansing and Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter. She's also pulled in a number of endorsements ranging from labor unions to EMILY's List to U.S. Slotkin got a head start campaigning four months ago, has already raised $5.8 million and has about $3.6 million in the bank as of June 30, her team said Monday. She's known as a tireless campaigner and prolific fundraiser. Harper is likely to have an uphill slog to compete with Slotkin, who flipped a GOP-held seat in 2018 and has run three times in competitive swing districts. 'I think that that folks want to see real people-powered representation over big-donor, establishment representation.' 'Quite a leap' And that is going backwards,' Harper said. 'There's a high degree of frustration by a lot of Democrats ― not just African-American Democrats in Michigan ― that for the first time in 57 years Michigan does not have a Black Democratic representative in Congress. Brenda Lawrence, D-Southfield, Michigan has only one African-American member in its congressional delegation, freshman Republican U.S. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey Raphael Warnock, D-Georgia and Tim Scott, R-South Carolina ― and no Black women. More: Slotkin raised nearly $3M for Senate bid in second quarterĪlso, only three Black men currently serve in the U.S. 'People want to see themselves reflected in their representation, and right now Michiganders don't feel that way about their Washington, D.C., representation,' Harper said. Harper is a member of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, a union that represents film and TV actors. Senate and, I believe, the only Democrat,' Harper said. Senate, I will be one of very few small business owners in the U.S. senator who is a current dues-paying, card-carrying union member.

'As an example, if I'm elected to the U.S. Harper says the Senate needs a 'richness' of diversity, including life experience, and that he'd help fill that void. Fisher mansion in the city's Boston-Edison neighborhood. The Iowa native owns the Roasting Plant coffee shop on Woodward Avenue downtown and says he moved to Detroit in 2018 after buying the historic Charles T.

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