The 2024 election cycle has ended, with Republicans holding control of all three branches of government. The Washington Examiner interviewed over two dozen new members as they prepare to take office in January. Part 14 of Capitol’s new crop will introduce Rep.-elect Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI), who won a swing district in Michigan that President-elect Donald Trump carried with an appeal to working-class voters.
Kristen McDonald Rivet, a mother of six, found one way to stay humble when she entered politics at the Michigan state Senate two years ago.
Thrown off by her new title of “senator” and the trappings of people treating her differently, the Democrat wrote on a Post-it note and stuck it on her state Capitol computer.
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It said: “You are not that important.”
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