Showing posts with label Karamo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Karamo. Show all posts
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Chaos engulfs Michigan Republicans after election-denying chair’s removal
She claimed that the meeting to oust her wasn't legitimate under party rules, and responded by holding a separate meeting to reaffirm her leadership on 13 January where she announced the party had suspended numerous local party leaders who had called for Karamo's ouster. Karamo's opponents, in turn, denounced that meeting as illegitimate...
Republicans worry that turmoil plaguing state parties could hurt GOP up and down the ballot in 2024 | CNN Politics
Republican party officials are becoming concerned that mounting dysfunction in a set of state Republican parties could imperil the GOP's chances in 2024, going so far as to leave the eventual Republican presidential nominee hamstrung on party infrastructure in key battleground states...
Monday, January 8, 2024
Election denier Kristina Karamo voted out as Michigan Republican party chair
Karamo continued to espouse her outlandish views last year after winning the party seat, echoing the QAnon conspiracy theory that a shadowy cabal of elites are harvesting children's organs.
"There's a ton of money involved in those freshly harvested organs," Karamo said on a 2020 podcast hosted by RedPill78, a conspiracy theory website. She has also called Beyoncé and Jay-Z "satanists", said yoga is a satanic ritual and described Cardi B as a "tool of Lucifer"…
Monday, January 1, 2024
GOP leaders in swing state panicked party is 'on the verge of implosion' before election - Raw Story
Karamo has fought back against efforts to oust her, writing in a letter prior to Christmas that "deceptive and underhanded endeavors endanger the Michigan GOP's drive toward victory in 2024" and that her detractors' efforts "disrupt the determination of the Republican men and women who are working tirelessly to win the spiritual war being fought on a cultural battlefield."…
Thursday, December 21, 2023
‘Incompetent dumpster fire’: Michigan GOP rocked by financial turmoil and infighting | CNN Politics
"We should have a fighting chance in the state of Michigan to award our electors to a Republican. … With this chaos and alienation of other Republicans, we don't stand that chance," he said...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Far-right election denier beats Trump’s pick for Michigan GOP - The Washington Post
Kristina Karamo, who refused to concede her 14-point loss for secretary of state in 2022, beat former attorney general candidate Matt DePerno, who had Trump's endorsement, in three rounds of contentious voting. The chaotic 11-hour convention, featuring a rowdy standoff over voting procedures and 10 candidates who all ran under a pro-Trump banner, left no doubt that the bulk of the party's activists in this key battleground state remain firmly committed to election denial and showed no interest in moderating their message to appeal to the political center...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Republicans sue to disqualify mail ballots in swing states - The Washington Post
In Michigan, Kristina Karamo, the Republican nominee for secretary of state, sued the top election official in Detroit last month, seeking to toss absentee ballots not cast in person with an ID, even though that runs contrary to state requirements. When asked in a recent court hearing, Karamo's lawyer declined to say why the suit targets Detroit, a heavily Democratic, majority-Black city, and not the entire state...
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Michigan Republicans divided after party nominates DePerno and Karamo for top jobs - The Washington Post
"If you had any shred of experience, if you had any shred of competence, that was an immediate disqualifier," said Jason Watts, a former secretary of the Allegan County Republican Party, who was a convention delegate. "The Michigan GOP just nominated two people that have no broad-based appeal."…
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Republicans: Trump-backed pair who repeat ‘big lie’ win Michigan backing
…The state Democratic Party said Republicans should be "ashamed" of its endorsed candidates. Party chair Lavora Barnes called Karamo a "fear-spreading, inexperienced extremist" and said DePerno is a Trump "lackey" willing to protect the former president but not all Michiganders...
Thursday, November 18, 2021
CNN pulls back the curtain on anti-fornication candidate backed by Trump to run Michigan elections - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism
"A vocal critic of elections now wants to be in charge of them," said Murray. "Kristina Karamo has not been shy in insisting there was widespread cheating in the 2020 vote, touting debunked claims and saying Donald Trump was the true winner in Michigan."
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