COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Gretchen Driskell is hoping the third time will be the charm in 2020.
The Democrat is again running for the 7th District Congressional seat which is currently occupied by Republican Tim Walberg.
She is scheduled to make a number of “Meet and Greet” stops around the district this weekend. One of them will be at the Blue Hat Coffee Gallery in Coldwater Sunday at 1:30 p.m..
Driskell announced another run for Congress in December. She says on her web site that many people in Michigan think Washington is broken and after 27 years in office, Walberg is part of the problem.
Walberg defeated her by nearly 50,000 votes in 2016 when he won 55 percent of the vote compared to Driskell’s 40 percent. Libertarian Ken Proctor had five person of the vote.
While there were 39,000 less votes in the mid term election of 2018, Walberg’s margin of victory was smaller as he won by just over 22,000 votes. But his percentage held nearly steady at 54 percent. With no Liberterian on the ballot, Driskell got 46 percent of the 2018 vote.
