EXCLUSIVE — The abortion matter was a political albatross for former Michigan Republican state Sen. Tom Barrett’s first campaign for Michigan‘s 7th Congressional District, one of the country’s most expensive races last election cycle.
But with eventual winner Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), a second-term incumbent, running for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, Barrett is hoping the matter will be less politically charged now, particularly after the state constitutionally protected access to the procedure in 2022.
During an hourlong interview with the Washington Examiner at his campaign headquarters in Lansing, Barrett, 42, downplayed the possibility to “ever replicate the intensity around the [abortion] issue that it had in 2022.”
“Roe v. Wade had just been overturned, 50 years of precedent, and all of a sudden, we wake up the next day, and that’s not the case
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