Former vice president and Electoral College integrity champion Mike Pence has endorsed former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s lieutenant governor, Rebecca Kleefisch, in Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary, per Ballotpedia. Kleefisch faces Donald J. Trump endorsee Tim Michels, a businessman who also has been endorsed by former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson.
The winner (there are two other Republican gubernatorial candidates) will take on incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
There is no apparent Democratic National Committee effort backing Michels to provide Evers an extremist Republican.
The DNC did spend money to defeat freshman incumbent Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) in last week’s Michigan primary for the 3rdDistrict House seat, covering Grand Rapids, Battle Creek and surrounding rural areas in the western part of the state. Trump-endorsed Republican John Gibbs, described as “too conservative” for the 3rd District in DNC campaign commercials edged out Meijer – who was one of 10 Republican Congress members to vote in favor of Trump’s second impeachment in January 2021, following the January 6 Capitol insurrection. We’ll see how the tactic plays out for Democratic challenger Hillary Scholten on November 8.
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