A recent poll shows Tlaib leading Jones by about 30 percentage points. Tlaib has said she will do everything to increase voter turnout in Michigan for the presidential elections in November to help Joe Biden beat Trump. Tlaib may be an even more formidable candidate now, having thrust herself into the national spotlight with early calls for President Donald Trump's impeachment and becoming a campaign surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in his run for the Democratic presidential nomination. She grew up in that district. Jones lost her bid to replace Conyers for the next two years to former state Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit, who is set to take over the seat Jan. 3.
They included providing 500 Thanksgiving dinners to Detroit families and a resolution supporting the police department's efforts to recoup the cost of training officers who take jobs outside the city. In recent weeks, she had to move out of the Rayburn office to make way for its new occupant, who will be sworn in Thursday. In August 2018, six candidates, including Tlaib, Jones, a suburban mayor and two former state legislators from prominent Detroit families competed to represent the district, which covers large parts of Detroit as well as some of the city's southern and western suburbs, a demographically diverse area and one of the poorest in the country. That race, however, included a crowded field of six candidates that split the vote, causing some analysts to believe that if the field had been more narrow, Jones' chances would have been better. Although Michigan is home to sizeable Arab and Muslim communities, Tlaib's district is mostly African American and white. Still, much has changed over the course of two years.
"Rashida didn't show up to work and say I want to build a national profile and be a member of a 'squad'," Berry told MEE. Jones lives in a part of Detroit that is in a different congressional district, a fact that Tlaib highlighted earlier this month. While it is not normally difficult to get that number of signatures, efforts to collect them this year could potentially be made more challenging by the spread of coronavirus. Southeast Michigan's two major newspapers - the Detroit News and Free Press - have also endorsed Tlaib. Dallas A. Walker Jr. for 45 years of ministry at the Wyoming Avenue Church of Christ and congratulated William "Bill" Ratliff on being named assistant chief of police at the Inkster Police Department. Washington — U.S. Rep. Brenda Jones' short-lived career in Congress is coming to a close after she served the final weeks of former Rep. John Conyers' term in the U.S. House. Her refusal to resign as president of Detroit City Council delayed her swearing in for more than three weeks until House leaders came to an agreement to seat her in late November. City Council returns from its holiday recess this month, and Jones' city office last month released a list of her accomplishments on behalf of the city in 2018.
Tlaib also has the backing of several labour unions, including the influential United Auto Workers (UAW) and Michigan AFL-CIO. Jones appears to have taken the job seriously, casting about 77 votes in the U.S. House and introducing two bills — one about affordable housing and the other targeting states that reduce the minimum wage. That expectation was supported by the fact that in a somewhat smaller four-person field in the race to succeed former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, for a two-month partial term, Jones beat Tlaib by about 2%, or 1,648 votes, and ended up serving briefly in Congress herself at the end of 2018. Earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed Tlaib with a message focused on the congresswoman's dedication to her constituents. Tlaib now faces a serious primary challenge from an opponent she defeated in the 2018 race - Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones. "Trump only won Michigan by 10,000 votes. In the article itself, Tlaib makes it clear that she will campaign for Biden against Trump.