LANSING, Mich. — The mutiny took hold on Mackinac Island. The Michigan Republican Party’s revered two-day policy and politics gathering, the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, was an utter mess. Attendance had plummeted. Top-tier presidential candidates skipped the September event, and some speakers didn’t show. Guests were baffled by a scoring system that rated their ideology on a scale, from a true conservative to a so-called RINO, or Republican in name only. Sign up for The Morning ne
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congressman, their staff, noted donors, this wasn t a rogue action. it was a concerted, organized effort by the hierarchy in the republican party to overturn an election. i don t think you can call it anything else. and yet, you still see in this debate, where almost every candidate for president in the republican nomination says that they will support a man who attempted to overthrow the government of the united states if he wins the republican nomination. and i can t think of anything that s just more anti-american, and sadder, and shows the complete moral bankruptcy of this party i used to belong to. yeah. anti-american, anti-democratic, no doubt about it. jill, on monday, mark meadows is going to present his argument for moving his case to federal court. walk us through that. what is his argument, how strong do you believe it is? mark meadows is arguing that because he is a federal employee, that he gets to be
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supremacy affords, and the mugshot is part of that. you had republican pundits and republican lawmakers basically for years chanting, lock her up. that was their mantra. and they campaigned on that and they pretended that they cared about law and order and holding the powerful to account. and yet here we are, seeing their response over the last couple of days, what do you make of the gop attempts to spin this mugshot into an asset, as opposed to a liability? look, i think it s really important to focus on that. that this really isn t about donald trump, it s about what s happening to the republican party. the reason donald trump is leading in these polls, is because he s what republicans want. and if you go back to what happened on january 6th, it was an effort, an attempted coup, it involved all levels of the republican party. from the white house down to the attorney generals association, senators,
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