LANSING, MI –This week, Bridget Brink launched her grassroots campaign for Michigan’s 7th Congressional district. Her campaign continues to pick up momentum by raising over $250,000 in the first 24-hours and her launch video topping over 500,000 views.
Bridget Brink is a proud Michigander who recently resigned as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine to speak out against the Trump Administration’s reckless and chaotic policies. Her Greater Lansing roots go back generations. Across nearly 30 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, she served five Presidents, both Democratic and Republican, and was the first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador in a war zone. Bridget has a proven record of making the hard calls, tackling the toughest problems, and holding the powerful, accountable. Now she’s running for Congress to fight for what’s right for Michigan families, and for our country.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM BRIDGET’S CAMPAIGN LAUNCH:
Detroit Free Press: “Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, a career diplomat who grew up in Michigan and resigned as ambassador over a break with President Donald Trump over his policies regarding the war with Russia, is running as a Democrat to challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett.”
The Detroit News: “she’s taking aim at Trump’s domestic policies, including ‘reckless’ tariffs that are raising prices for working families, she said, and Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ agenda budget bill that she said threatens the earned benefits of Social Security, Medicare and specifically Medicaid.”
WLNS: “It was just the other day that a former Ambassador to Ukraine announced that she was running to represent the Greater Lansing area in Congress, and in the first 24-hours after that announcement, Bridget Brink says she has raised more than a quarter of a million dollars.”
BRINK on MSNBC Morning Joe: “The policies of the Trump Administration are not only detrimental to our power and our influence overseas, but they’re also bad for us back home, including for Michigan families…the stakes are just too high. And that we need leaders of principle who are going to step up and go to Washington and do the right thing.”
AP: “she’s running for Congress in one of Michigan’s most competitive districts.”
Washington Post: “teeing it up to be a top battleground in the midterms.”
Detroit News: Brink: “my experience, especially three years in the war zone dealing with presidential-level challenges and under direct fire from Russian missiles and drones, I think I have a proven ability to deliver.”
AP: “Brink said that if elected, she would take on ‘extremists’ and powerful influences such as Elon Musk. She criticized Republicans for cutting government funding and programs.”
NY Times: “an unlikely politician”
Michigan Advance: “Brink said her work as ambassador to Ukraine for three years was an exercise inAmerica’s commitment to democracy, and allies like her had the shrapnel lodged in their homes from Russian missiles to prove it.”
WLNS: “Brink says the reason she is running for Congress is to ‘fight for what’s right, here at home, to stand up to unaccountable, unelected billionaires.’”
NY Times: “After serving five presidents of both parties for 28 years, she had finally been confronted with a policy she could not defend. Now she is speaking out and taking her opposition to the president to a different level by deciding to run for Congress.”
Michigan Advance: “pride in her family’s history in Michigan, spanning six generations”
Former U.S. Ambassador Daniel Fried: Bridget is “smart, decent, disciplined, and dedicated to the cause of freedom and theUnited States. And she doesn’t scare worth a damn.”
Former Senior Director for Europe at the National Security Council Michael Carpenter: “she’ll fight like hell for better economic policies, less corruption, and stronger national security”
Former U.S. Ambassador Luis Moreno: “Dedicated, courageous and maintaining the highest level of leadership and integrity in an almost impossible situation.”
Former U.S. Ambassador Laura Kennedy: “It’s a dangerous world – we need tough, principled expert leaders to navigate those challenges.”