Staff Reports
Donald Trump recently endorsed Gop candidate Tudor Dixon for the party's candidacy Michigan Governor. Dixon is seeking the Republican nomination for governor.
In the days leading up to one of the primaries that was being closely watched by the most people in the country, President Trump praised Dixon as a "conservative fighter" who was ready to "rescue Michigan" from Liberal Gretchen Whitmer, whom Trump has criticized for her mismanagement of the COVID-19 outbreak. This primary was one of the most closely watched in the country.
In the primary election that will take place on August 2, conservative television personality Dixon will fight against a select group of other potential candidates. The race has been marred by scandals, one of which resulted in the elimination of two former front-runners from the voting pool: Perry Johnson and James Craig, who had previously served as chief of police in Detroit. The state decided that they failed to submit ample legitimate petition signatures, so they were removed from the voting pool.
The decision put a stop to the ongoing campaign by the candidates to win the Republican nomination and go on to run against the Democratic candidate for governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in the general election. It only took a few hours before Directorate of Elections was supposed to deliver a final slate of candidates to county clerks in order to expedite the mailing of absentee votes when the decision to make the change was made.
In the state of Michigan, potential candidates for governor are required to acquire 15,000 signatures before they may enter the race. In the case of Johnson, the oversight agencies found roughly 10,000 invalid signatures, while in the instances of the other two candidates, they found sufficient numbers of fraudulent signatures to disqualify them. Johnson was the only candidate whose case was not disqualified. The number of people vying for the candidacy of the Republican Party, which used to be quite extensive, has been significantly reduced.
Another Conservative candidate, Ryan Kelley, remains able to compete for office despite the fact that he was arrested and charged with rioting in connection with the Capitol.
During a speech in April, Donald Trump brought up Jennifer Dixon's candidacy, and he dropped a suggestion that he would end up backing her. On the other hand, nine candidates for the Michigan Senate and Congress who had also received support from a previous president encouraged President Trump not to back Dixon. These candidates are running in the state of Michigan. The candidates alleged in a letter that was made public by NBC News that Dixon was connected to the "establishment" in Michigan in addition to the DeVos family. The letter was written and shared by the contestants.
