Michigan GOP memo delivers scathing election post-mortem on Trump-backed candidates

[brooklynite]

Detroit Free Press

LANSING — The Michigan Republican Party suffered historic losses on Tuesday because of poor candidates with close ties to former President Donald Trump, who turned off major donors, the party's chief of staff said in a scathing post-election memo obtained by the Free Press.

"As a Party, we found ourselves consistently navigating the power struggle between Trump and anti-Trump factions of the Party, mostly within the donor class," Paul Cordes said in the Thursday memo.

"That power struggle ended with too many people on the sidelines and hurt Republicans in key races. At the end of the day, high quality, substantive candidates and well-funded campaigns are still critical to winning elections. We struggled in both regards to the detriment of Michiganders across the state."

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon, with low name I.D., no campaign money and no political experience, had to "start from scratch" after the primary, while Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her allies were sitting on tens of millions of dollars, which they used to attack her on her abortion position through TV ads, to devastating effect, Cordes said in the memo.

[The Third Doctor]

1. Not acknowledging that her views on abortion was one of things cost her the election.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Whitmer was never losing

Dixie’s extremist abortion views don’t give her a chance. But she was never beating Whitmer, no one was.

[emulatorloo]

2. They made their bed, now lie in it. They had a couple of opportunities to get rid of him

but they decided to bow down to him instead.

[mercuryblues]

4. I get so po'ed

when they say "attacked" her on her abortion position. Telling people what she stands for is telling them the truth, not an attack. FFS
Quoting people when they say stupid assed shit, is not attacking them.

[FlyingPiggy]

7. Exactly!!

[Act_of_Reparation]

5. First, the MIGOP gets their cheeks clapped.

Then, the schadenfreude of watching them point fingers at each other like chastened toddlers.

This is shaping up to be a pretty good week up here.

[patphil]

6. Whitman won by about 470 thousand votes as part of a michigan blue wave.

It wasn't about campaign spending, it was about all those crappy Republican candidates.