Detroit is the heart of American automaking, and the great state of Michigan is seeing almost $9 billion in private investments and 14,000 jobs to craft the new era of electrified vehicles. Yet last fall, Michigan's Elissa Slotkin—a Democrat and a supporter of Joe Biden and later Kamala Harris—had to run ads with an "I don't know about this whole EV thing" vibe in her run for the U.S. Senate.
