# Kristen McDonald Rivet **Kristen McDonald Rivet** is a freshman Democratic U.S. Representative from Michigan (MI-08, Flint/Saginaw/Bay City), who won the open seat in 2024 by ~6.7 points after Dan Kildee retired — a "Trump-district Democrat," since Trump carried MI-08 by ~2 points the same year. A former state senator running on an economic-populist profile, she is unopposed in her 2026 primary and sits on a ~$2.6M war chest, with forecasters rating the seat Lean-to-Likely Democratic. See [[MI-08-2026]] for full race context. ## Related - [[MI-08-2026]]