Dem Elissa Slotkin Wins Open Senate Seat In Michigan Denying GOP Pick Up Opportunity

Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin will become the next senator from Michigan after defeating former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers.

The Associated Press has called the race as of 3:12 p.m. EST on Nov. 6, with Slotkin at 48.6% of the vote and Rogers at 48.3%.

Rogers has conceded the election to Slotkin, telling supporters, “I am humbled and honored for the millions of Michiganders who embraced our campaign, shared their thoughts, their concerns, their ideas, and put their faith and trust in me to serve our great state as their U.S. Senator.”

Slotkin and Rogers were running to succeed Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, who has served as a U.S. senator since January 2001 and was the first woman to be elected to the senate from the Great Lakes state.

Rogers served in the Michigan state Senate from 1995 to 2000 before being elected a U.S. congressman representing the eighth district. He retired from the House of Representatives in 2015 after chairing