“Alarming” … “Interesting choice to skip the first debate” … “All eyes on disqualifications” … “Legitimate chance that Craig will be kept off the ballot” Last night, eight out of the ten chaotic and disastrous Republicans running for governor gathered in Livingston County for the first primary debate of the 2022 cycle. Despite chief “neophyte” […]
“This could create an opening for Republicans to ultimately kill [federal programs including Medicare and Social Security.” This week, a new Data for Progress and Courier Newsroom poll revealed what Democrats already knew to be true: the Republican plan to sunset Medicare and Social Security is deeply unpopular with voters, including the 2.3 million Michiganders […]
The majority of the American people support access to safe and legal abortion, and Republicans are proving just how dangerously out of touch they are. Instead of protecting the constitutional right to an abortion, Republicans are pushing a MAGA-agenda that could jail doctors, outlaw some contraceptives, and implement a nationwide ban on abortion. One by […]
This morning, as new polling shows the GOP plan that could sunset Medicare and Social Security after 5 years is “universally unpopular,” the DNC launched new ads targeting seniors on Facebook to make sure they know that Republicans could put their hard-earned benefits at risk. The ads come as part of a push by the DNC to communicate directly with voters […]
Republicans continue to show just how blatantly out of touch they are with the American people. Republicans sold out their party to defeated former president Donald Trump and now they’re pushing a dangerous MAGA agenda – and President Biden is making sure Americans know it. Donald Trump is the leader of today’s Republican Party and […]
New polling shows voters “overwhelmingly reject” the Republican plan that could sunset Medicare and Social Security As new polling shows the GOP plan that could sunset Medicare and Social Security after 5 years is “universally unpopular,” the DNC is launching a new ad buy targeting seniors on Facebook to make sure they know that Republicans could put their hard-earned benefits […]
Following the chaotic, disastrous Republican gubernatorial field’s first primary debate of the 2022 cycle, MDP Chair Lavora Barnes issued the following statement: “Tonight’s Republican debate in Livingston County – that James Craig refused to attend at the eleventh hour – was a spectacular display of just how much damage every candidate’s wrong-for-Michigan agenda would wreak […]
James Craig, Tudor Dixon and Perry Johnson all face challenges on their nominating petitions with the Bureau of Elections and the Board of Canvassers. Allegations centered on their involvement in an illegal “round robin” signature forging scheme in which “a small group of people sign[ing] names and addresses in turn, one per sheet, using a […]
Michigan is home to “an economy that improved the most in its history since the pandemic began two years ago” – an indisputable example of Governor Whitmer’s decisive leadership that the entire slate of untested gubernatorial Republicans countered with plans to undermine working families and hamper Michigan’s economic progress. Michigan’s outperformed other states on “equally […]
Tonight in Livingston County, every Republican candidate for governor showed that they are in lockstep to implement a DeVos-style agenda that would decimate public schools and harm Michigan’s students, parents, and educators. The wrong-for-Michigan vision gubernatorial Republicans shared on stage is no different from what they’ve been saying on the campaign trail for months on […]