Far-right Republican groups surge in swing state Michigan

[BidenPresident]

HILLSDALE, Mich, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Jon Smith, a local leader in rural Michigan of America First, a far-right Republican faction that denies the results of the 2020 election, wants to shift the entire party to the right - even if it means short-term losses at the ballot box. "We need to redefine what it means to be a Republican," he said in an interview.

In pursuit of that aim, Smith and other hardliners deployed armed guards to bar moderate delegates from a county meeting last August, threatening to bring criminal trespassing charges against them, according to an email to the moderates seen by Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/far-right-republican-groups-surge-swing-state-michigan-2023-02-17/

 

[Yakuda]

HILLSDALE, Mich, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Jon Smith, a local leader in rural Michigan of America First, a far-right Republican faction that denies the results of the 2020 election, wants to shift the entire party to the right - even if it means short-term losses at the ballot box. "We need to redefine what it means to be a Republican," he said in an interview.

In pursuit of that aim, Smith and other hardliners deployed armed guards to bar moderate delegates from a county meeting last August, threatening to bring criminal trespassing charges against them, according to an email to the moderates seen by Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/far-right-republican-groups-surge-swing-state-michigan-2023-02-17/

It seems a counter balance to the sharp left turn the Democratic party took a few years back. Liberals are dead. Leftists have taken over the jackass party. Maybe this will be good and maybe create a third party, the centrist party.