Sen. Gary Peters is counting on his understated style to win reelection over GOP 'rock star' John James
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Democrat Gary Peters, a bearded, buttoned-down genial Midwesterner who could easily pass for the investment adviser he once was, is known in the Senate mostly for steering as far clear from the spotlight as he possibly can.
Peters said there’s a “real cross section of Michigan that loves to ride” — and the bike trip is a way to convey to them that he hasn’t gone Washington. “I don’t quit. I don’t have quit in my background,” James said in an interview at a Panera just down the road from the event. “This is a nation of second chances, and I think people want to see somebody who is willing to get back up, dust themselves off and continue to fight for them in Washington.”
“There's no daylight between Donald Trump and his tweets, and John James,” Peters said. “He's basically a Donald Trump clone running for the Senate.” Peters, meanwhile, is trying to keep his own top of the ticket focused on fixing the mistakes of 2016. He wrote an open letter to hismonth's debate in Detroit calling for them to focus on kitchen-table issues — only to see the debate become a fight between liberal and moderate factions. He said he expects more focus on his set of issues as the field narrows.
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