Electrify blinken s to office in michigan and he has become increasingly frustrated with what s happening with the republican party in the state. what s happening with donald trump and relitigating the 2020 election and i think it essentially came to ahead with him over the weekend from what i can tell. and he finally said that he s done with this position on state committee and he s moving on. this weekend, was of course the michigan republican nominating convention, michigan doesn t choose its candidates for down-ballot state races. through primaries in so they did for the kind of convention that we saw this weekend. and it was remarkable choices by michigan republicans for those attorney general and secretary of state races. both because they re both the most fire breathing election deniers of anybody running for those positions. but also in the case of the secretary of state candidate, i mean she is just, she has been a full blown qanon promoter.
Weekend to put to fire breathing conspiracy theorists election deniers forward as a republican parties official nominees this year for michigan attorney general and michigan secretary of state. joining us now is craig mueller his report of the detroit news, mr. monger thank you very much for joining us tonight. appreciate it. hey. thank you so much for having me. so you broke the story about this resignation in the michigan republican party and published this sort of scorching resignation letter from the official who stepped down. let me just ask you for a little context, whether this was a surprise, whether this is the sort of person kind of expected this from. and how it s landing in michigan. yeah, i mean i sort of expected it having known tony donned for quite awhile. but this is a guy that has spent his life trying to electrify blinken s to office in michigan and he has become increasingly frustrated with what s happening with the republican party in the state. what s happen