Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., who was elected last year, is planning to give speeches saying Democrats need to change the perception that they are “weak and woke,” Politico reported.

Slotkin, who won election despite President Donald Trump taking Michigan, wants Democrats to appeal to voters’ sense of patriotism and to adopt the Alpha energy of Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell, she told Politico.

“It’s a military-style operational plan,” Slotkin said to Politico. “I don’t understand how to rally us into a coherent approach if we aren’t on the same page on where we’re going. Trump is doing a whole bunch of things that I think are a threat to our economy and a threat to our Democracy, and I have a responsibility on behalf of my state to point that out and try to do something about that.”

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