LANSING — In case you missed it, the billionaire DeVos family is once again ready to pour millions of dollars into Michigan’s elections to try to elect far-right candidates. With Betsy DeVos’s history in the Trump administration, the new organization and its candidates are sure to be in lock-step with the dangerous agenda happening at the federal level.
Already, the DeVos family spends millions on elections to try and push their radical, unpopular agenda onto Michiganders. With fellow extremists former state Rep. Shane Hernandez and former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, the DeVos family will try to further the work Trump’s doing at the national level right here in Michigan — gutting Medicaid, defunding public schools, and ensuring Michigan’s economy only works for billionaires like them.
Read more about the DeVos’s plans to meddle in Michigan’s elections:
Detroit News: DeVos family plots new political strategy ahead of Michigan 2026 election
- West Michigan’s wealthy DeVos family is planning to set up a new political operation ahead of the 2026 mid-term election with the goal of turning the state Republican…
- The four sources said former state Rep. Shane Hernandez, the 2022 GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, and former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel had been tapped to help lead the new group, which is expected to be announced in the near future and receive tens of millions of dollars…
- The DeVos family is usually among the most active political financiers in Michigan each election cycle. Members of the family contribute to candidates, party organizations and nonprofits that fund campaign mailers and advertisements.
- For the 2020 presidential election, The Detroit News tracked nearly $11 million in political contributions from members of the DeVos family…
- The Michigan Republican Party has faced a string of financial problems after Kristina Karamo was elected state chairwoman in February 2023 and struggled to get donors to support her administration. The party had about $35,000 in its bank accounts in August 2023…
- The new DeVos-backed group would be led in part by Hernandez, who is currently president of Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan, which represents the commercial and industrial construction companies…
- For years, the DeVos-backed Michigan Freedom Fund has promoted Republican economic policies, criticized Democrats and worked to tout GOP candidates.
- The organization, which is primarily a social welfare nonprofit with a board that has featured DeVos allies such as Bolger, reported raising $1.4 million in 2022, the year of the last gubernatorial election. A connected political action committee, the Michigan Freedom Network, has spent heavily through the years, supporting GOP candidates through advertisements…
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