Open Borders, Pro EV Mandate Politician to Respond to Joint Address
TLDR
This press release attacks Senator Slotkin (the opposition’s designated responder) before the President’s Joint Address has occurred, using aggressive language that mischaracterizes her positions. This pre-emptive strike breaks with traditional protocol for State of the Union/Joint Address events and represents an unusually confrontational approach to political communication.
This official communication from the Trump administration regarding Senator Elissa Slotkin’s response to the President’s Joint Address to Congress is unusual and noteworthy for several reasons.
It is highly unconventional for an administration to release an official statement attacking the opposition’s designated responder before the President’s address has even taken place. This approach deviates significantly from traditional protocol and decorum surrounding State of the Union or Joint Address events.
The statement employs a notably aggressive tone, directly accusing Senator Slotkin of being “out-of-touch” and supporting policies that would “hollow out American manufacturing and let criminals flood into our communities.” This level of direct personal attack against the opposition’s chosen spokesperson is atypical in official White House communications.
The statement appears to mischaracterize some of Senator Slotkin’s positions and votes, framing them in the most negative light possible. For example, it equates voting against overturning emissions rules with being against manufacturing jobs, which is a simplification of complex policy issues.
Typically, administrations focus on promoting their own message rather than dedicating significant resources to attacking the opposition’s responder. This level of attention to Senator Slotkin suggests an unusually confrontational approach to political communication.
Releasing this statement before the address itself could be seen as an attempt to undermine the opposition’s response before it occurs, potentially shifting media focus away from the content of the President’s speech and towards this political conflict.
This approach represents a significant departure from traditional norms of political discourse surrounding presidential addresses to Congress, reflecting a more combative and polarized political environment.
Elissa Slotkin will respond to President Donald J. Trump’s Joint Address to Congress tonight. Senator Slotkin stands opposed to President Trump’s agenda to lower costs, bring back manufacturing, and secure our borders.
Slotkin voted against overturning Biden’s tailpipe emissions rule, a rule that would force automakers to sell more electric vehicles, killing auto manufacturing jobs. President Trump stood up for American consumers and autoworkers and repealed this de facto electric vehicle mandate.
- Slotkin voted against congressional disapproval of Biden’s EPA rule seeking to limit tailpipe emissions.
- The House Budget Committee called the regulation “a de facto ban on the sale of gas-powered and traditional hybrid vehicles.”
- Research shows that EV mandates would kill thousands of jobs:
- America First Policy Institute: New Report Exposes Biden-Harris’s Proposed EV Mandates to Cost 200,000 American Jobs
- “The Midwest will suffer the most, with Michigan (-37,000), Indiana (-24,000), and Ohio (-21,000) facing the highest job losses.”
- America First Policy Institute: New Report Exposes Biden-Harris’s Proposed EV Mandates to Cost 200,000 American Jobs
- A UAW study from 2019 projected that EVs would kill 35,000 jobs at its plants.
Slotkin has repeatedly voted for open borders. President Trump has moved swiftly to secure our borders with attempted crossings in February at the lowest number ever recorded.
- In May 2023, Slotkin voted against the H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.
- In February 2019, Slotkin voted to terminate President Trump’s declaration of an emergency at the southern border.
- In March 2019, Slotkin again voted again to terminate the declaration in an attempt to override President Trump’s veto.
- In July 2024, Slotkin voted against a resolution “Strongly condemning the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure to secure the United States border.”
- Slotkin said, “I don’t believe that anyone really thinks a wall from sea to shining sea is needed to make us safer.”
Slotkin is just another out-of-touch politician that wants to hollow out American manufacturing and let criminals flood into our communities.