Troubled state GOP operations extend far beyond Michigan [View all]

Lackluster fundraising follows leadership fights and refusal to move on from 2020

BY: JON KING - JANUARY 13, 2024

The dysfunction that has been the hallmark of the Michigan Republican Party in the last two years is not just a bug in the GOP state party system. Increasingly, it appears to be a feature.

As the battle over who is the actual leader of the MIGOP continues to play out in dueling press releases and alternate websites from Chair Kristina Karamo and Co-Chair Malinda Pego, the core function of the party — raising money to get Republicans elected to office and keeping them there — has been derailed by a fundraising drought and leadership selection process that seemingly caters to an ever more extreme faction within the party.

“[Former President Donald] Trump’s endorsed candidates always win primaries, but the election deniers, they’re making the Democrats’ job easy,” Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia Center for Politics told the Michigan Advance.

Coleman adds that it’s not a surprise that finances have become an issue in those party operations that have lost focus on successfully electing candidates to office.

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This is a fun read, lol, especially since it mentions state GOP woes in Arizona, Minnesota, Colorado, and Florida.