MI-11: Pro-Trump Republican immigrant to challenge Dem lawmaker who flipped Michigan seat

[RandySF]

Republican Whittney Williams, a President Trump supporter who used to live in the U.S. illegally, on Monday announced that she would be launching a campaign to challenge Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens (D) for the 11th District seat Stevens flipped blue during the 2018 midterms.

Williams, 37, said in an announcement video that she was brought to the United States at the age of 10 from Taiwan “without knowing a word of English.”

“My family overstayed their visas and, as a result, I spent the next 16 years living in the shadows as an illegal immigrant,” Williams said.

Williams, the director of diversity for Michigan’s 11th Congressional District Republican Committee, married her husband and gained citizenship in 2013, her campaign said in a statement to news site Mlive.com.

“Now as a citizen, I want to help change the Washington culture,” she says in her announcement video. “I’m sick and tired of political games, and I’m sure you are too. When I’ll go to Congress as a pro-life conservative who supports strong border security, Democrats are going to have a hard time using their typical playbook against me.”

Trump has made hardline immigration policies a keystone of his administration, including rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Obama-era action that allowed children brought into the country illegally to remain. A federal appeals court ruled in May that Trump’s decision to terminate the program was unlawful.

Williams touted Trump’s record on unemployment and the economy, while showing a picture of the so-called “Squad” of progressive minority congresswomen — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.)

“I want to further this economic success and fight back against the radical left’s socialist agenda,” she said.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/457960-pro-trump-republican-immigrant-to-challenge-dem-lawmaker-who-flipped

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Michigan will go Blue. Trump is under water there....

If this woman who embraces a RACIST thinks she can win, she has another thing coming.

[dlk]

5. If this Woman Who Embraces a Rapist...

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. That too.

An amoral man to start with.

[Tiggeroshii]

2. .....

Just....

....

[Kid Berwyn]

3. It's like they don't know the meaning of "hypocrisy."

They do, of course, but pretend not to know because that is all the GOP does in Washington— pretend to do and know nothing.

[Celerity]

4. the racial hypocrite (yes, it works that way Whittney), red-baiting Williams can fuck right off

[vercetti2021]

7. That idiot in the the window

Probably the highlight of his year lmao

[gratuitous]

8. "Democrats are going to have a hard time using their typical playbook against me"

Not really, Whittney; we just describe your positions and the programs you favor, and informed voters will make the right choice.

[Takket]

9. this is my district...........

Stevens win was quite historic........ if you look at the history of the seat it has been red for a VERY long time. I think though that, GOP cheating aside, Stevens can win re-election. Fingers crossed.

[RandySF]

10. I know the district well

I used to live in Downriver in what is now Debbie Dingell's district.

[roamer65]

11. MI-11 was specially created for that POS Thad McCotter after he decided to leave the state senate.

Flipping MI-11 was a special treat last November.