Posted on 08/03/2021 7:32:54 PM PDT by cotton1706
The mayoral race in Sterling Heights pits an incumbent who left the GOP to vote for Joe Biden against a rival who organized rallies for Trump. They have two things in common: Both are running for mayor and running away from the state and national GOP.
Sterling Heights’ Aug. 3 mayoral primary is about more than who leads Sterling Heights. It’s also shining a light on what it means to be a conservative in a Republican Party still dominated by Donald Trump.
Last year Sterling Heights Mayor Michael Taylor made national news — and not the good kind, for some in the GOP.
The lifelong Republican said he supported Democrat Joe Biden, not then-President Donald Trump.
And as Election Day approached, Taylor made an almost eerie prophecy.
“If there’s not a decisive winner declared on the Election Night or the next morning, there’s the potential for really serious problems. I think President Trump is stoking those sorts of fears and that sort of anger. And if he thinks that the election was stolen from him, or even if he doesn’t think that but he says it, I’m afraid that would be a call to arms to a lot of people.”
Now Taylor faces his own bid for reelection, after seven years as mayor.
Amid a crowd of thousands gathered on a recent night for a free concert at Sterling Heights’ Dodge Park, Taylor says he expects zero support from Republican operatives.
“There’s really just no place in the party for people who are anti-Trump. Watching how the GOP defended Trump after anybody who could count knew that the election was over, watching the GOP defend him even after that insurrection, I don’t share the same values as the people who are leading the GOP,” he says.
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See ya!
We need to make more Assistant Democrats become just Democrats like this guy.
Where is Sterling Heights?
The only shadow I see is that being cast by the DOJ over any attempts to audit the 2020 election. DOJ is trying to keep the cloak of darkness over what the Democrats did.
Detroit suburb.
Where is Sterling Heights? IS it near Golan Heights?
Taylor sounds like a moron. Only a moron would vote for someone who sounds like a moron.
“And if he thinks that the election was stolen from him... I’m afraid that would be a call to arms to a lot of people.””
I suspect that many here wish that were true...but most of us have lives, families, jobs, and credit ratings. It’s the Left that was fully t’d to burn down cities and whatever else they could find.
That’s hopeful!
Where do you see that?
It is in Detroit. Sorry for the GOPe but Trump showed a viable way for the GOP: seize the middle of the country, which comprises everyone from the trade unionist all the way to the near wealthy upper middle class.
The Dems have seized the super wealthy and lowest classes in in pincer move, a classic totalitarian tactic.
This is not 1980 with a loyal opposition. This is a cold civil war, and it will not get better for at least the next 30 years. Fight or die.
Macomb County, suburbs of Detroit.
“Where is Sterling Heights?“
Two cities and 6 miles north of Detroit.
Leave Detroit going north enter Warren.. leave Warren and ya hit Sterling Heights. To the west is Troy..
Macomb County, Michigan (Metro Detroit)
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