A crop of progressive-minded veteran congressional candidates say they are aiming to break from the mold of military service candidates — hawkish, corporate-friendly, and weak on labor questions — favored by the Democratic Party establishment.

During the midterm election next year, the Democratic Party hopes to regain lost ground on Capitol Hill by running a new crop of “service candidates” — men and women whose campaign bios stress their past experience in the military and national security agencies.

One booster of this approach is Elissa Slotkin, a business-friendly Democrat who won a US Senate seat in Michigan last year. She first entered politics as a successful candidate for the House in 2018 after three tours of duty in Iraq as a CIA analyst and then working as a top-level Pentagon

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