Rep. Elissa Slotkin says Democrats need 'new blood' in 2024

Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., said Sunday the Democratic Party needs "new blood" in Congress and the White House in 2024 but committed to support President Joe Biden if he runs for re-election.

Asked in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” whether she would support Biden in the next presidential election, Slotkin, 46, who is running for re-election this year, said she would if he decides to run again and that she expects the party would support him, as well.

But she also noted: "I have been very vocal, including with my own leadership in the House, that we need a new generation. We need new blood, period, across the Democratic Party — in the House, the Senate and the White House. I think that the country has been saying that.”

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Slotkin on 2024: If Biden runs, I'll support him. But Democrats 'need new blood.'

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“I’ve said, ‘I think we need new leaders.’ I would love to see some Midwestern leaders in there, right? That’s been important to me, to reflect the middle of the country. We’re here, too,” said Slotkin, who was among a handful of House members who voted against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s, 82, leadership campaign.

In July, Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., also called for a generational change in leadership, adding that he didn't think Biden, 79, should run for president again.

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“I think Joe Biden has served our country admirably with principle and with decency at a time when we surely needed it,” Phillips said on Minneapolis radio station WCCO’s “The Chad Hartman Show.” “But I am part of a caucus here in Congress where three top leaders are over 80 years old, where the president will be over 80 in the next election. And I think it’s time for a generational change. I’m not too shy to say that I do believe that most of my colleagues feel the same way.”

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While Biden has shied away from declaring he will run in 2024 unequivocally, NBC News reported that he told the Rev. Al Sharpton last month he will seek a second term in a private conversation at the White House.

“I’m going to do it again,” he said as he posed for a photograph in the Roosevelt Room with Sharpton, who is an MSNBC host, according to an official of Sharpton’s National Action Network who recounted Sharpton’s description. “I’m going.”