GOP's Bishop Still Holding Off Obama Democrat Slotkin in Mich-8

Despite spending an estimated $6 million — and benefiting from numerous independent expenditures — Democrat Elissa Slotkin is still trailing Republican Rep. Mike Bishop in Michigan’s 8^th District, the suburban Detroit and Lansing area.

According to the last Target-Insyght/MIRS poll completed two weeks ago, Bishop defeats former Obama Administration official Slotkin by 48 to 45 percent.  The margin of error is +/-4.5 percentage points. 

This poll was completed just as the Slotkin campaign unleashed hard-hitting spots recalling her work at the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency.  Among top Obama Administration officials weighing in for Slotkin in those ads are former CIA Director John Brennan and former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, a past Republican U.S. Senator from Nebraska.

“And she’s outspent Mike by more than 2-to-1,” Michigan’s 8^th District GOP Chairman Norm Shinkle told Newsmax, “And that’s not counting the $4 million [former New York Mayor Michael] Bloomberg dumped on local TV to support her.”

Shinkle pointed out that in contrast to Bishop, the son of a former state legislator with deep roots in the community, Slotkin was born outside the 8^th District, “voted in Michigan for the first time in the August primary and pays property taxes on a home in Washington DC.”

John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.