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Yes, they will vote for her in November, but many Republicans who turned out for Donald Trump's rally in Michigan on Saturday weren't extolling the virtues of their governor nominee at a rally intended to bolster the entire GOP ticket, especially the woman at the top.
To generate enthusiasm for the GOP candidates Matt DePerno, Tudor Dixon, and Kristina Karamo, who are all running for statewide office against incumbent Democrats, Trump was in Michigan, one of the nation's key swing states. But based solely on the attire that attendees wore to the rally, Dixon, the party's nominee for governor, had the smallest group of visible supporters.
Ann Clark, 72, who was wearing a red MAGA hat and a shirt with the names Karamo and DePerno on it, said, "I like her, but she's not showing the passion that I want, where you get up there and you raise your voice and you see it in the eyes."
"Even though I didn't vote for her personally in the primary, I'm going to support her. The 57-year-old educator Lisa Olson-Marshke, who is supporting Karamo, the candidate for the position of state's top election official, said, "It just so happened that she came up so fast, we weren't so familiar with her."
Both Karamo and DePerno, the GOP candidate for attorney general who is being looked into for allegedly tampering with an election
In comparison to Dixon, both Karamo and DePerno, the Republican candidate for attorney general who is being looked into for allegedly tampering with an election, are thought to be more genuine grassroots candidates.
Another rally goer who isn't sure who to vote for said, "Tudor Dixon has a lot of ties to Betsy DeVos, and I'm not a fan of DeVos at all," referring to the former education secretary under Trump who is also a significant Republican benefactor and the main supporters of Dixon's gubernatorial campaign, according to MLive.
Attendees who spoke to HuffPost said that while Dixon wasn't their top choice, she was still far superior to the Democratic alternative who had been criticised by Republicans for the state's long-abandoned coronavirus closures. When Whitmer's name was mentioned throughout the day, the crowd frequently erupted in chants of "Lock her up!"
More time was spent by Trump talking about and remembering his former rival Hillary Clinton than he did promoting his candidates. The overwhelming majority of attendees appeared to be ardent Trump supporters wearing MAGA clothing that was brightly coloured, sequined, or illuminated.
Before going on a rant about the "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, which sparked the attack at the U.S. Capitol, Trump said, "Let's talk about the persecution of Donald Trump and the Republican Party."
A "national leader in the battle to protect children by getting race and gender ideology out of the classroom," he called Dixon a "very, very good woman" and a "very, very good woman."
Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, is "one of the most radical, most sinister governors in America," according to Trump. Tudor Dixon should replace the hysterical extremist Gretchen Whitmer as governor instead.
Before Trump took the stage, Dixon spoke, accusing her rival of running a "basement campaign" and failing to engage voters.
Democrats seem to believe that basement campaigning is acceptable. Are we going to let them off the hook this time? Dixon posed the question in reference to Joe Biden's diminished campaign during the pandemic.
While Whitmer "abused your children with her communist shutdowns," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an extreme GOP congresswoman from Georgia who flew in for the rally, called Dixon "a great American woman" with the "experience to turn Michigan's economy around"
Michigan Republicans elevated a slate of nominees to run for important statewide offices that were supported by Trump and the party's most ardent grassroots supporters. Trump was in Michigan to help them win after the most recent polling raised concerns about their ability to win over swing voters in a year when Democrats are anticipated to turn out in large numbers to vote to protect abortion rights in the state constitution.
The last election was tainted by fraud, according to Karamo, who asserts that these people are authoritarians rather than liberals. Never before in American history has the position of secretary of state been so intimately tied to our freedom.
Republicans are being vastly out-raised and out-spent by their opponents in races that should be close, which indicates that major GOP donors aren't confident in their slate. A month before election day, Dixon isn't even on television, despite raising less than a million dollars in the previous fundraising cycle compared to Whitmer's millions. Polls indicate a significant deficit between Dixon and Whitmer.
As the Democrats decimate Republicans on the airwaves, "[Trump] is trying to help them raise some money and get out the Macomb [County] vote," claimed Jason Watts, a GOP consultant of Trump's well-timed rally in metro Detroit. "All the talk among the grassroots is that they believe Trump's PAC will enter and inject all this money, but it's just not there,"
Dixon, who has emphasised her role as an executive at her family's steel company, won the chaotic primary after several other candidates were eliminated for not submitting the required paperwork to be listed on the ballot. The eventual Republican nominee, who fervently opposes abortion and supports parental rights, was thought to have the best chance of winning the election.
Dennis Lennox, a different Republican consultant from Michigan, claimed that "no one who is being honest thought [Dixon] would beat Whitmer." "The entire draw of Dixon in the primary was that, especially for down-ballot legislative candidates, she would do the least harm to the ticket in November."
Republican public relations expert John Sellek, CEO of Harbor Strategic Public Affairs in Michigan, claimed that the primary in Michigan "was like the governor and U.S. Senate primaries in Ohio and Pennsylvania."
According to Sellek, "Trump's endorsement put an outsider over the top, but they then began the general election without a funded and equipped campaign." The GOP wants to shift the focus of the general election debate from abortion to education, and depending on how Trump frames his message, he might be able to help.
53-year-old supporter of Dixon Lisa Dolan stated that gender and sexuality education in schools is her main concern.
Republicans should prevail, she hoped and prayed. To be quite honest, I don't think we have many powerful Republicans. at least not at this time.
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