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June 10, 2026, 5:30 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin has been asking swing voters across the Midwest what they care about. In Speedway, they answered in a discussion among themselves before she even walked into the room: utility bills.<\/p>\n
After Slotkin arrived to serve as a moderator of sorts over a buffet-style lunch at Big Woods, economic uncertainty continued to guide the focus group. One woman told the story of a friend’s daughter who was discouraged from becoming a paralegal because artificial intelligence might kill those jobs. A man told Slotkin about Shelbyville Mayor Scott Furgeson’s caught-on-video remarks<\/a> that he’s only seen anti-data center signs in front of “shitty houses.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n June 10, 2026, 5:30 a.m. ET U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin has been asking swing voters across the Midwest what they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/03\/18\/PIND\/89218878007-031826-sabey-data-center-decatur-township-034.JPG?crop=3597,2024,x0,y301&width=3200&height=1801&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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