If you look at our poll this week, basically a deadlock race to Tudor Dixon was leading with 19. Nolan Finley: And that’s true, but it’s a necessary route for them to take. Nobody has been able to come out and say, here’s who I am and what I’m really about and this is why I want to be governor. I mean, it is a treacherous kind of path to have to walk. We still haven’t heard from Merrick Garland at the Justice Department, but anybody who knows Merrick Garland and the kind of prosecutor he was.įor instance, with the Oklahoma City bombers and some other high-profile cases, you can’t believe that he’s not going to do anything there. One is, what do you think happened in the last presidential election in 2020? Do you think Joe Biden actually won? And then the question is, do you support Donald Trump? Which becomes, I think, harder and harder to do as we watch the noose tighten around him and his inner circle in these hearings in Washington. But they all seem very aware that this is still the heavy in the party and that in the primary in particular, the litmus test is two things. I think some of them are maybe rightfully afraid of what kind of consequence that would pay in the fall. But everybody in the race seems to believe that the way to win is to cozy up just enough to the former president to get votes. Stephen Henderson: He hasn’t said who he likes. Nolan Finley: He hasn’t anointed a candidate, yet. Stephen Henderson: Well, he’s already there. My view of this is it’s a race just waiting for Donald Trump to enter. Only one candidate, Kevin Rinke, has real money and he seems to be spending most of it to tear down Tudor Dixon. Not much money is being spent and getting out the vote efforts.Īlthough just this week, we have seen some flyers and some text messages, emails go back out to absentee ballots. No sign that any of them have a true statewide organization, which is an unusual thing. And they’re still trying to put this thing together with just two and a half weeks left before the August 2nd balloting. We’ve talked before about the troubles and actually getting on the ballot. But there is a Republican gubernatorial campaign underway in Michigan. Nolan Finley: Well, Steve, I couldn’t blame you if you haven’t noticed. Plus, Finley weighs in on Trump’s diminishing approval rating in Michigan and how he might contend with other possible Republican presidential candidates, like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, if he announces he’s running in the 2024 election. “It’s basically a deadlocked race,” Finley said about a recent Detroit News poll that shows candidate Tudor Dixon ahead with 19%, but only marginally compared to the other four candidates.įrom abortion rights to economic inflation, they discuss how the Republican candidates are addressing these issues ahead of November. RELATED: Michigan Radio | Meet the Republican candidates for Michigan governor One Detroit contributors Stephen Henderson, host of “American Black Journal,” and Nolan Finley, editorial page editor at The Detroit News, sit down for a conversation about where the five candidates remaining in the Republican party stand leading to the 2022 Michigan primary election and what issues will impact the campaign for governor. 2, 2022 Michigan primary election, who will come out on top of the Republican party to take the nomination? And how will former President Donald Trump’s endorsement influence who gets to be on the ticket come November? As the race for Michigan governor gets underway heading into the Aug.
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