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Elissa Slotkin: “There is one of us on the stage who has been on the…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Debate Night in Michigan: US Senate candidates discuss the issues

Published | Video Starts at 12:32

Congresswoman Plot, can you have a 30 second. I just want to say one thing. There is one of us on the stage who has been on the receiving end of Iranian rockets, Iranian mortars, Iranian IEDs, in three tours in Iraq. I know intimately what it's like to have Iranian terrorism kill my friends. So I take a back seat to no one on the issue of Iran. (12:32–12:41)

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Asserts that she has personally experienced Iranian attacks during her service in Iraq.

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