"Karamo defeated a 10-candidate field dominated by far-right candidates to win the Michigan GOP chair position after a state convention that lasted nearly 11 hours. A former community college professor, she lost her secretary of state race in the 2022 midterms by 14 percentage points after mounting a campaign filled with election conspiracies.

"Karamo inherits a state party torn by infighting and millions in debt.

"It took three rounds of voting at the convention in Lansing for locally elected delegates to pick Karamo over former attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno, who had been endorsed by Trump in the race.

"With a field dominated by grassroots activist candidates running on far-right messaging, many longtime Michigan Republicans had given up on a state party before Saturday’s vote even took place.

"'We lost the entire statehouse for the first time in 40 years, in large part, because of the top of the ticket. All deniers. It turned off a lot of voters,' former longtime Republican U.S. Rep. Fred Upton said last week. 'As I look at the state convention, it looks like it could well be more of the same.'"

https://apnews.com/article/politics-michigan-state-government-c0f56b7f9b6af7bb4a3c12a92f0edc01

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"Karamo defeated a 10-candidate field dominated by far-right candidates to win the Michigan GOP chair position after a state convention that lasted nearly 11 hours. A former community college professor, she lost her secretary of state race in the 2022 midterms by 14 percentage points after mounting a campaign filled with election conspiracies."

https://apnews.com/article/politics-michigan-state-government-c0f56b7f9b6af7bb4a3c12a92f0edc01

#elections
#BigLie
#trump
#Michigan
#FredUpton
#KristinaKaramo
#Republicans
#MIGOP
#CampaignFunding