CATCH UP QUICK: What to Know About Why Michigan Voters Will Re-Elect Kristen McDonald Rivet and Reject Extreme Tom Smith

What Michiganders have learned about Tom Smith:

• Smith has said that he is in favor of letting the health care system “work unobstructed,” which would let insurance and drug companies drive up costs and deny coverage with no repercussions and threaten the future of the Affordable Care Act and Medicare.
• Smith supports the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, kicking more than 32,000 people in his own district off their health coverage and driving up private insurance premiums by over 60%, to pay for one of the largest billionaire tax cuts in history.
• Tom Smith said Michigan “ought to be the number one place for data centers because, you know, like we’ve got 60 miles of water at most places on 3 sides.” Smith previously said he “would not interfere with the development of AI” and he backs the bill that gives tens of billions of dollars in tax breaks to data centers.
• Smith supports taking away seniors’ earned benefits. He supports a bill the Trump Administration said was a “backdoor for privatizing Social Security” to give benefits seniors earned to Wall Street to gamble on the market.​

Key reads on Tom Smith’s disqualifying record: 

• Detroit News: Who is Tom Smith, surprise GOP nominee for Congress in mid-Michigan?
• CNN: KFile: GOP nominee in Michigan swing seat deleted posts implying executions for Trump opponents
• Detroit Metro Times: Republican congressional candidate Tom Smith says the Great Lakes make Michigan ideal for data centers
• Talking Points Memo: EXCLUSIVE: He Accidentally Won a Michigan House Primary. He Also Attended the Jan 6 Protest.

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