Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin said she would consider running for president in 2028 to help the Democratic Party chart a new path built around the next generation of leaders.
"I'm not so arrogant as to think it has to be me," Slotkin told the Des Moines Register when asked during a trip to Iowa whether she has presidential ambitions. "Midterms is what I'm focused on right now, but if it comes to the point afterwards that I think there's not anyone else who's on the right path, I guess I wouldn't say no forever."
Slotkin, now 49, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018, flipping a Republican-held district. And in 2024, she was one of only four Democrats to win a U.S. Senate seat in a state that Republican President Donald Trump also carried.
She is among a large field of potential White House contenders already working to raise their national profiles with swing state trips, book tours and podcast bookings.
Slotkin was in Iowa this week to campaign on behalf of Iowa Democrats ahead of a consequential 2026 midterm election. She will be in Ohio next to campaign in Columbus and Cincinnati.
