During the convention, Republicans nominated six fake electors from 2020 to serve as presidential electors this year. After DePerno dropped out, they chose Patrick O'Grady, a circuit court judge, as their nominee for the state supreme court…
Showing posts with label republican party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label republican party. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Michigan’s Republican convention removes chair amid party tensions
The Michigan Republican party has for years been beset with chaos and divisions caused by the influence of Christian nationalism, election conspiracies and extremism. When a faction within the party moved to oust Karamo earlier this year, the longstanding intra-party brawl came into national focus. This weekend's convention proved that those divisions remain as present as ever…
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Opinion | Do Republicans realize their platform isn’t conservative? - The Washington Post
The GOP's 2024 platform isn't just full of bombast; it's also a mess economically…
Many Republicans don’t align with new messages at GOP convention - The Washington Post
"Republicans have been plenty willing to let Trump guide the ship and take the party new places, including on foreign policy. Most recently, antiabortion activists have largely stood by as Trump and his team have watered down the party's opposition to abortion, including in the new party platform.
But as the party makes its big, scripted pitch to the American people, much of what's being presented bears little resemblance to the party of even a few years ago.
Traditional conservative Republicans might be willing to let a few things slide in the name of winning, but the party is certainly putting that to the test…"
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Alabama Republican Party chair: Democracy ‘leads to socialism’
Making the case that the Republican Party is increasingly hostile toward democracy is simple: One need only quote Republican officials.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Party feud breaks out ahead of RNC meeting in Las Vegas - POLITICO
GOP county chairs and local activists warned the party isn't doing enough to compete in November...
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"…
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, October 10, 2023
‘What Is Broken in American Politics Is the Republican Party’ - POLITICO
A grown-up Republican Party — even a deeply conservative one — would accept the rule of law, the norms of liberal democracy, and the legitimacy of the opposing party. It would seek to represent all Americans and would prioritize winning converts over destroying heretics. It would be a governing party, understanding full well that governing is impossible without negotiation and compromise. It would accept America's responsibility to uphold the post-World War II global order. Its leadership would seek to address the real needs and problems of its working-class base while resisting the conspiracy theories, demagoguery and temptations toward political violence to which populism is all too susceptible.
Unfortunately, that's not the Republican Party we have. Instead, we have a party that prefers temper tantrums to governing, fantasies about stolen elections to the hard work of appealing to swing voters. It would rather destroy the federal bureaucracy than use it to implement conservative policies. Increasingly it poses a threat to national stability and world order. Kevin McCarthy did little to resist the feral direction of his party and much to indulge it. The next speaker will either find the courage to stand against this Republican nihilism or be consumed by it in turn…
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Thursday, August 10, 2023
‘No Republican party’ in US today, says anti-Trump conservative judge | Republicans | The Guardian
Luttig told CNN: "A political party is a collection and assemblage of individuals who share a set of beliefs and principles and policy views about the United States of America. Today, there is no such shared set of beliefs and values and principles or even policy views as within the Republican party for America."…
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
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...
Monday, January 16, 2023
Opinion | Three Reasons the Republican Party Keeps Coming Apart at the Seams - The New York Times
It's not just the 14 votes Kevin McCarthy lost before promising away enough of his power and prestige to finally be named speaker. It's his predecessors, Paul Ryan and John Boehner, who both quit the job McCarthy now holds. It's the Tea Party repeatedly knocking off Republican incumbents. It's Ted Cruz and the Freedom Caucus forcing government shutdowns their colleagues never wanted. It's Donald Trump humiliating virtually the entire Republican Party establishment and becoming the erratic axis around which all Republican Party politics revolves. It's House Republicans ousting and isolating Liz Cheney because she insisted on investigating an armed assault on the chamber they inhabit. Today, a gaggle of Republicans isn't a party. It's closer to a riot...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Putinism is breeding in the heart of the Republican party
…It may be possible to prevent Putin's aggression from spreading to the rest of Europe. But it is not possible to win a cold civil war inside America without destroying the United States – another of Putin's objectives when he ordered his spy agencies to help Trump...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
"Betrayal" book: Trump threatened to leave GOP but backed down - Axios
…Trump, who had said "he didn't care" about destroying the GOP, ultimately backed down after party leaders told him they would take actions that could have cost the former president millions of dollars, Karl told ABC's "Good Morning America."…
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