party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominated contest this year. and you know all that, but it s worth just sort of going back to brass tacks for a second. in a two party system, each party is important, right? in a two party system, the relative strength, skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health 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 in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate, and in places where it s likely gonna 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. and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s a pretty f
happy new year, jen. i think you and speaker pelosi just launched a thousand memes. there will now be toys that when you activate them, they say, in nancy pelosi s voice, just win, baby. that is now going to be a thing from here on out. we re waiting. marketing people out there, order them. order them. exactly. we ll sell them on the show. just win, baby. just win, baby. thanks, jen. much appreciated. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so, we have two major parties in our country. a week from today we re going to have the first votes in one of those parties, in the republican party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominating contest this year. and you know all that. 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 orga
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
To. depends on whether you put the dash in the name when you try to find the michigan republican party s website. there are two entities competing with two different leaders that both claim to be the official michigan republican party as of right now. it was the reporter jonathan from bridge, michigan today, who first pointed out the two dueling iterations. he told us tonight he thinks it will have to be a court or a national republican party that will have to step in and decide which of these two competing entities is the real republican party from here on out. but as of now, it is not clear. and the silence you hear through all of this is the michigan democratic party, which is doing great. in michigan, the democratic party controls both houses of the michigan legislature and the governorship and both u.s. senate seats and all of the state-wide offices.
Michigan right now? and if so, what is it, and how do you find it? this is actually a hard question right now because if you go to migop.org mi, for michigan, migop.org, which has long been the web address of the michigan republican party, migop.org, right now, here s what you find. here s their website. it s live right now as we re looking at it. it s a slick website. it s got a video thing playing in the background. but what s that weird banner across the top. that banner says, a small fringe faction of state committee members staged an illegitimate gathering to claim removal of chairwoman kristina karamo. if you click on that weird banner, you get to this. and the black box there is a video. i swear i m not going to show you a whole big, long swath of it because it will haunt your dreams. it will at least make you get up