You would think Michigan Republicans would be more focused on fighting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) or the Biden administration than on fighting each other. You would be hopelessly wrong.
Michigan Republicans voted on Jan. 6 to remove state party Chairwoman Kristina Karamo, who denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election and then ran to be Michigan’s secretary of state in 2022. She proceeded to lose by 14 points, the widest margin of any statewide Republican in Michigan, and then claimed that the election was stolen from her.
For some absolutely moronic reason, Michigan Republicans then made Karamo the chairwoman. The party then devolved into a mess of infighting that culminated in that Jan. 6 vote to remove Karamo from her post. Like any good election denier, though, she claimed that removal was illegitimate, leading to a Saturday meeting of “a majority of party members” that voted to reinstate her. The party then also banned Karamo’s former co-chairwoman, who replaced her on an interim basis, from serving as chair for five years.
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In other words, it is an ongoing trainwreck. Party members who voted to remove Karamo insist she had no legitimacy to lead this revote. Karamo remains an election denier and a political mediocrity who brings nothing to the table in Michigan other than slavish devotion to former President Donald Trump. Democrats continue to hold power in Michigan and likely won’t see any real threat to that in 2024, all while Whitmer prepares herself for the national stage after the 2024 elections as a budding Democratic star.
Michigan Republicans are a mess, and they are sabotaging the GOP both in their state and at the national level over their own egos. They need to figure out a real solution to this, one that doesn’t include Karamo being involved in the party at every level. And they probably need to do it sooner rather than later; in case they haven’t noticed, there is an election later this year in which Michigan will play an important part.