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    McDonald Rivet Wins Michigan’s 8th Congressional District Race

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    Kristen McDonald Rivet won election in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, securing a seat for Democrats that was opened by incumbent Congressman Dan Kildee.

    With about 99% of the BALLOTS counted, McDonald Rivet received 51.3% of the vote, while Republican Paul Junge had 44.6% of the vote, according to unofficial results compiled by The Associated Press, which called the race early Wednesday morning.

    Michigan’s 8th Congressional District includes the area in and around Bay City, Flint, Midland, and Saginaw. The seat was considered a toss-up, even though the congressional district covering much of the region has been represented by Democrats for decades.

    It was estimated that would likely have been the case again this year before U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township, announced last year that he would not seek a seventh two-year term. While the area has trended more Republican in recent elections, Kildee enjoyed enormous notoriety; before winning the seat in 2012, his uncle, the late Dale Kildee, who died in 2021, represented the area for 36 years.

    The race pitted Junge, a Republican from Grand Blanc, who lost to Kildee two years ago and lost in another district to U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Holly, in 2020, against McDonald Rivet, a Democratic senator from Bay State for his first term. City who previously worked for the state Department of Education, Michigan Head Start and nonprofit organizations.

    During the campaign, Junge – a former deputy prosecutor, television anchor and Department of Homeland Security official during former President Donald Trump’s tenure, who largely self-funded his campaign through an inheritance from his father – relied on ads from attack against his opponents, first within the Republican Party. primary then McDonald Rivet. He has sought to characterize her as soft on crime and illegal immigration and to present himself as a trusted ally of Trump, who has supported him.

    McDonald Rivet, meanwhile, who enjoyed Kildee’s support, presented herself as a pragmatist, willing to work with Republicans to cut taxes on working families and take steps to lower consumer prices and fight anti-tax poverty. illegal immigration. She also argued that Junge should not be trusted in his claims that he, like many other Republicans who had previously established themselves as staunch opponents of abortion rights, would not vote in favor restrictions on this practice now that Michigan voters have approved abortion. protections in the state constitution.

    Contact Todd Spangler: [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter@tsspangler.

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