Michigan’s 4th Congressional District race preview

MICHIGAN. -- In the swing state of Michigan, three candidates are facing off for the 4th Congressional District seat in the U.S. house: Incumbent Republican Bill Huizenga, Democrat Jessica Swartz and Curtis Clark with the U.S. Taxpayers party.

Huizenga was elected to congress in 2011, first in Michigan’s 2nd district and now has represented the 4th district since last year. He explained right now, his main focuses are on manufacturing, the Great Lakes, agriculture and veteran’s issues.

“…how to put food on the table and how to, in my case as a small business owner, how to make sure my employees are taken care of and, you know, how we have a better community and a better state and a better country, not necessarily for me, but for my kids and my future grandkids I mean, that’s really why I’m doing this,” explained Huizenga during a Thursday interview.

Swartz worked as an appellate attorney for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and did work with the nonpartisan organization, ‘Voters not Politicians,’ in 2018. Her campaign takes a focus on reproductive rights, affordable health care, veteran’s issues and the Great Lakes.

“I am in this because I love our country. This is my way to serve our country. I’m not doing this for some sort of glory or money or any of those things, I’m doing this to move our country along the path to becoming a more perfect nation and that really, at the end of the day, that will be my guiding principle,” said Swartz in a Monday interview.

Clark served in the U.S. Army for 25 years and was elected as a precinct delegate in 2020. His campaign website says the issues he focuses on are boarder security, energy independence, the economy and education.