Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) praised President Biden’s dangerous, surprise trip Monday to Kyiv, Ukraine, The Hill reports.
Biden’s visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was “the right signal to send at the right time,” Graham said.
Meanwhile, The Hill reports, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said that Biden is neglecting domestic problems with his trip to Ukraine and Poland.
“We have a lot of problems accumulating here in our country that he is neglecting.”
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Michigan GOP Sticks with Trump
Michigan’s Republican Party chose pro-Trump election denier Kristina Karamo over another pro-Trump election denier, Matthew DePerno, to be its leader going into the 2024 elections, Michigan Radio reports. This despite a fairly thorough rejection of MAGA hats in favor of Democratic candidates in last November’s midterms.
Karamo lost her bid to become Michigan secretary of state last November to Democrat Jocelyn Benson by 14 points, while DePerno lost to Democrat Dana Nessel by just eight points (both Democrats were incumbents).
Two moderate Michigan Republicans who did not make it to the midterms had something to say about their party’s inability to free itself from the grip of the 45th president, ahead of Saturday’s leadership vote, The New York Times reports.
“In our state, this civil war is benefitting no one but the Democrats,” said former Republican Rep. Peter Meijer, who voted to impeach Trump after the January 6th Capitol insurrection and was defeated in last year’s primary, with some help from the Democratic Party. “Part of what the Republican Party in the state of Michigan needs to get back to is being a broad tent. To me, the fundamental challenge is, how do you build trust in the state party after losses like we saw in November?”
“Sadly, it looks like they want an encore,” said former Rep. Fred Upton, another of the Republicans who voted in favor of Trump’s second impeachment. Unlike Meijer, Upton announced his retirement before he could be primaried by a Trump acolyte in 2022.
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