In the upcoming Southfield clerk’s race, election denier Gabi Grossbard is running to undermine Southfield voters’ voices in 2026 and beyond
LANSING — In case you missed it, extremist and noted conspiracy theorist Gabi Grossbard is running to be the Southfield Clerk, where he would be overseeing — and undermining – elections in this important city. Grossbard has peddled lie after lie about Michigan elections and played a key role in the lawsuit that sought to invalidate the votes of more than one million Michiganders in 2020.
There is also strong evidence that Grossbard may have been at the January 6th attacks at the Capitol. As reported by The Independent, “Facebook statuses posted by Grossbard and comments made by his wife Milaine and others strongly imply that the candidate himself was in Washington, D.C. during the attack on the Capitol, where dozens of police officers were injured as they clashed for hours with violent rioters. Several responding officers died after the attack.”
It’s more than clear that Grossbard will do Trump’s bidding no matter what if he is elected to this important position in a key county in battleground Michigan. Thankfully, experienced city clerk official Wynett Guy is running a write-in campaign to push back against this new version of the same ugly MAGA extremism.
As Clerk, Grossbard would threaten the electoral voice of Southfield voters and undermine democracy across the entire state. Michiganders in Southfield deserve better than someone out of touch with reality, and Michigan Democrats are fighting every day to elect Wynett Guy and protect the sanctity of Michigan’s election.
Check out more about this critical race below:
The Independent: Why Democrats in Michigan are desperate to stop a diehard Trump supporter from winning a seemingly small-time race
- Democrats in one of the most important battleground states in the nation are rallying their forces in a comparatively small race — but one the party’s leaders fear could have big implications for the 2026 midterms and ‘28 presidential elections.
- The unusual scene is playing out around a city clerk election in Southfield, Michigan, where Democrats entered the spring faced with the real possibility of a MAGA Republican who helped lead an effort to toss more than a million votes in the 2020 election becoming the local elections chief, virtually without a challenge.
- Gavriel “Gabi” Grossbard is running for city clerk in Southfield, Michigan, where voting is taking place in just two months…
- Grossbard, to Democrats in Michigan, represents everything MAGA wanted to achieve after its failure in 2020 and the subsequent return to power of Trump four years later. Once part of a legal bid to disqualify votes in three Michigan counties including Wayne, home to Detroit, Grossbard is alleged by Democrats to be a dyed-in-the-wool believer of conspiracy theories about America’s election systems…
- Michigan Democratic Party officials faced the reality that Jackson’s ineligibility would have left the door wide open for the seat to be won by a MAGA Republican who signed on to a lawsuit that sought to invalidate the votes of more than one million Michiganders in 2020. Grossbard is also a former Republican congressional candidate who also ran for city clerk unsuccessfully in 2023…
- The state party chair, Curtis Hertel, is meanwhile blasting Grossbard as an “extremist conspiracy theorist” as organizers pour into the city to reverse Guy’s fortunes.
- There’s reason to believe that Grossbard would be on the far right fringe of his party’s elected officials in Michigan were he to win…
- Other Facebook statuses posted by Grossbard and comments made by his wife Milaine and others strongly imply that the candidate himself was in Washington, D.C. during the attack on the Capitol, where dozens of police officers were injured as they clashed for hours with violent rioters. Several responding officers died after the attack.
- “Im [sic] ok. Driving back to Detroit,” he wrote on the evening of January 6, 2021, in a status after the attack concluded. Comments following the post are entirely focused on the riot.
- “So proud of my husband Gabi Grossbard,” wrote his wife in a Facebook status the same day. Another commenter replied: “We are behind you Gabi! Thank you for going! You are there for all of us!”
- “Stay safe, please!” another Facebook user wrote in response to a now-hidden or deleted update posted by Grossbard on the morning of January 6. Grossbard liked the reply, but didn’t respond.
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