but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health and capacity of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country. even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial, of course, in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate and the places it s likely to be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall. it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides.e and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s at familiar list. states like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, a few others. given all that, though, here s today s po
throw out the election results in that state after he lost his re-election effort in 2020. that effort in michigan failed, as it did nationwide.t but in the wake of that michigan effort, trump endorsed one of his election denier supporters when she ran in 2022 to become michigan secretary of state. she lost very badly. she lost by 14 points. i should tell you that she denies the existence of that election result as well. she refuses to admit that she lost, let alone by that huge margin. after nevertheless losing that race, she was elected to take over the state republican party and become its chair. under her leadership, the party fell hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt. i m not sure whether that hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt includes the more than $100,000 that the party, under her leadership, agreed to pay to the qanon promoting hollywood actor, jim caviezel, to make a speech at a recent michigan republican party event. over $100,000 for jim when the republican par