Posted on 04/29/2022 5:59:08 AM PDT by cotton1706
For Republican supporters of Donald Trump in Michigan, it seemed like a crowning moment: The state party chose two candidates endorsed by the former president, both outspoken preachers of 2020 election falsehoods, as its contenders for the state’s top law enforcement officer and its chief of election administration.
But instead, that move at a convention last weekend — where Republicans officially endorsed Matthew DePerno for attorney general and Kristina Karamo for secretary of state — has ruptured the Michigan Republican Party. After months of strain, it appears to finally be snapping as what remains of the old guard protests the party’s direction.
This week, Tony Daunt, a powerful figure in Michigan politics with close ties to the influential donor network of the DeVos family, resigned from the GOP’s state committee in a blistering letter, calling Trump “a deranged narcissist.” Major donors to the state party indicated that they would direct their money elsewhere. And one of Trump’s most loyal defenders in the state Legislature was kicked out of the House Republican caucus.
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“Rather than distancing themselves from this undisciplined loser,” Daunt wrote in his resignation letter, “far too many Republican ‘leaders’ have decided that encouraging his delusional lies — and, even worse — cynically appeasing him despite knowing they are lies, is the easiest path to ensuring their continued hold on power, general election consequences be damned.
“Whether it’s misguided true belief, cynical cowardice, or just plain old grift and avarice,” Daunt continued in the letter, which was addressed to a Republican colleague, “it’s a losing strategy and I cannot serve on the governing board of a party that’s too stupid to see that.”
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Partisan Media Shills and Stooges alert.
2018 and 2020 were BOTH rigged in Michigan.
It sounds like the Michigan Republican Party is on the verge of flushing the RINO turds. Excellent.
We have a ways to go in several other states.....Georgia being a prime example.
John James disappointed me when he did not challenge the 2020 results. I donated to his campaign but won’t support him now.
They weren't going to support ANY move from John James challenging the Michigan Steal.
The party probably rubbed his nose in that fact, too.
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