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ck4829

(35,091 posts)
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 09:00 AM Jun 2022

Well, I'm sure this isn't foreshadowing of how things will look if the GOP has power. At all.

Already rocked by a signature forgery scandal, Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial primary was upended again this week by the arrest of candidate Ryan Kelley, the promise of a write-in campaign by James Craig and new conspiracy claims about the upcoming election.

It’s “pure chaos,” said Andrea Bitely, a Lansing-based strategist who worked for former Attorney General Bill Schuette, the GOP’s 2018 gubernatorial nominee.

Kelley, accused of four misdemeanor crimes stemming from a U.S. Capitol riot over the 2020 presidential election, on Friday described his arrest as a “political witch hunt” and alleged Democrats have “weaponized the FBI against me” to manipulate the 2022 contest.

Craig, one of five candidates recently booted from the ballot over forged signatures, announced Thursday night that he would run a write-in campaign for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. And Perry Johnson, alleging Democrats rigged the process, vowed to continue fighting in court.

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/pure-chaos-michigan-fbi-arrest-forgeries-rock-gop-governor-primary

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Well, I'm sure this isn't foreshadowing of how things will look if the GOP has power. At all. (Original Post) ck4829 Jun 2022 OP
It's all so Trumpian. sop Jun 2022 #1

sop

(10,265 posts)
1. It's all so Trumpian.
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 09:09 AM
Jun 2022

From now on only Democrats will concede elections. Trump created the template for all future elections that don't go the Republicans' way.

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