by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., said he has seen a political shift in the swing state of Michigan.
“It’s interesting to see how Michigan has just grown in importance, and as a crossroads,” Huizenga told The Daily Signal, “quite literally the road to the White House, the road to the Senate [Republican] majority, and the road to our own majority in the House of Representatives, I think runs right through Michigan.”
Huizenga joined “The Daily Signal Podcast” just days before the Nov. 5 presidential election to discuss the party realignment in Michigan, how the Biden-Harris administration has affected Michiganders, and the Wolverine State’s role in helping determine who the next president will be.
The 4th Congressional District lawmaker said lifelong Democrats within his own family are changing parties.
“This notion of ever voting for a Republican, much less calling yourself a Republican, never would have crossed their minds 20 years ago, and that has certainly grown, and it’s something to watch,” he said. “Then you look at what’s been happening within African American and Hispanic communities. They certainly have been looking around saying, ‘You know what? Maybe our morals and our sort of center of gravity and our beliefs don’t quite fit with the Democrats.’”
That’s a “powerful indictment” of what’s happening with the Democrats, said Huizenga, 55, currently in his seventh term.
“That’s quite a powerful indictment of what’s been happening on the Democrat side is, they’ve not just drifted leftwards, they’ve taken a hard turn leftwards in many of their stances and platforms and that kind of thing,” he said.
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Elizabeth (Troutman) Mitchell is the reporting fellow for The Daily Signal and co-host of “The Daily Signal Podcast.”
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