HILLSDALE, Mich (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...

...Far-right Republican groups are making inroads across the state, according to Reuters' interviews with two dozen party leaders, grassroots members and political experts, sidelining moderate voices, risking relationships with major donors and complicating the state party's efforts to rebuild after their worst election results since 1984...

...America First Republicans now control local party leadership in more than half of Michigan's 83 counties, a senior party official estimated, paving the way for an important victory on Saturday when an election denier is expected to be elected to state party chair...

..."To me, this is like a coup of the Republican Party," said Penny Swan, who joined the moderates after seeing the armed guards at the August meeting. "It's like the radical right is trying take over."...

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Until we are organized and funded like the Soro's kids, until we ballot harvest better than the leftists, until we begin infiltrating school boards and local offices like they did, it will not matter.  Time to use their playbook.

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan Republican Party Chair Kristina Karamo held a press conference Wednesday to address a controversial tweet that draws a comparison between Democratic-led gun reform laws in the state and the Holocaust...

Michigan Republican Party Chair Kristina Karamo doubled down on the party’s comparison, saying the following when she stepped to the podium Wednesday evening:

“The Second Amendment exists for defensive purposes. It exists to protect citizens from aspiring tyrants, and any notion that the Michigan Republican Party drawing comparisons between historical events and the Democrats’ push to disarm the people of Michigan is somehow offensive or bigoted [is] flat-out dishonest...