“But in the primary race the fractured Republican Party is on full display… [and] the division is not likely to soon close.”
LANSING — Detroit News’ conservative assistant editorial editor Kaitlyn Buss has raised a red flag about the “fractured” Republican Senate primary that is full of “division,” writing that “Republicans stand to lose” the race in November.
The piece points out that “twenty-five of the 60 Republican National Committee delegates from Michigan signed a resolution last week calling for Trump to rescind his endorsement” of Mike Rogers and “1,100 members of a group called Rescue Michigan signed a letter saying they, too, want the former president to back a different candidate.”
It notes that it’s a “tough race,” and the GOP Senate primary “division is not likely to soon close.”
Read the Detroit News’ opinion piece on the “division” in the Michigan GOP Senate primary:
Detroit News [OPINION]: Buss: GOP will lose Senate race without consensus
- But in the primary race the fractured Republican Party is on full display. Even among Donald Trump supporters there is division, despite the former president’s expressed preference in the contest.
- Twenty-five of the 60 Republican National Committee delegates from Michigan signed a resolution last week calling for Trump to rescind his endorsement of GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers…
- “Rogers represents the worst of what the Republican Party stood for prior to the rise of Donald J. Trump, and Rogers becoming the U.S. Senate candidate would be a backslide…” the resolution says.
- In addition to the resolution from delegates, 1,100 members of a group called Rescue Michigan signed a letter saying they, too, want the former president to back a different candidate.
- “I don’t want somebody like [Rogers] to represent us,” says Monica Yatooma, an RNC delegate from the 11th district, who signed the resolution. “I’m hoping that Trump removes his endorsement,” noting she would like to see it go to Grosse Pointe businessman Sandy Pensler…
- The division is not likely to soon close.
- It’s already a tough race. The Republican Party in Michigan is still trying to get reorganized…
- …Republicans stand to lose this critical seat in November.
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