'They’re clearly trying to set things up to succeed [in 2024] where they failed in 2020.”
The Michigan GOP chose to gather at DeVos Place
, the colossal convention center in downtown Grand Rapids named for the DeVos family, the conservative billionaire benefactors who founded Amway. One of the clan’s esteemed members, Betsy,her post as Trump’s secretary of education after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that was spurred on by election conspiracies. “We should be highlighting and celebrating your Administration’s many accomplishments,” she wrote in ato Trump.
Now, standing in a sea of red caps, I wondered how many attendees milling about the building that shared DeVos’ name also shared her view of Trump: Someone whose politics she supported, but whose conspiracies breached a fundamental precedent. Quite a few, it turned out, proven by the fact that DePerno failed to meet the required 50 percent vote threshold necessary for securing the nomination on the first ballot.
Michigan’s nominating process privileges candidates whose positions appeal to the activists, local party leaders, and elected officials who serve as delegates — in other words, the GOP base. John Yob, a strategist for DePerno’s campaign, told me he expects the issue to strike less of a chord with primary voters who seem otherwise fixated on the economy.
In the end, it was the establishment who left feeling like the outcome was rigged. After her victory in the first round of voting, Karamo had been allowed to take the stage and encourage the room to vote for DePerno in the runoff. Party leadership denied Ryan Berman, a candidate for attorney general who failed to qualify for the second round, the opportunity to do the same for Tom Leonard, the establishment pick.
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