Democrats sent reeling by the first weeks of the Trump administration put forward a fresh-faced messenger to counter his speech, blasting the president for 'mindless' firings of federal workers and for berating the Ukrainian president. Newly elected Senator Elissa Slotkin stood before a bank of flags from her home state of Michigan to deliver the Democratic response, beginning with a joke about Trump's record-shattering hour and forty minute discourse. Slotkin hammered Trump on kitchen table issues and stressed bipartisanship, even putting in a hat tip to Ronald Reagan.