“Republicans Have Picked An Election Denier To Run Michigan’s Elections”

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Michigan Republicans endorsed Kristina Karamo, a first-time candidate who has spread lies about the 2020 election, to run all the state’s elections as the party’s candidate for secretary of state.

Karamo is one of at least 17 election deniers running this year to take over elections in 14 states, three of whom have the explicit backing of former president Donald Trump. Trump endorsed Karamo in September and featured her at a rally in Michigan earlier this month. She is the first to win her party’s endorsement for the job, but several others could clear that hurdle as primary election season gets underway.

The first-time candidate was endorsed by the Michigan Republican Party at its convention on Saturday; the state chooses candidates for several top offices by convention rather than by primary vote. The party will officially nominate Karamo in August, though the Detroit News reported that new rules make it tough, but possible, for another candidate to challenge her between now and then.

Karamo will attempt to unseat Democratic incumbent Jocelyn Benson, who has spent the last two years combatting disinformation about 2020 as secretary of state. Benson has compared the possibility of voters handing control of Michigan’s elections over to Karamo to “putting an arsonist in charge of the fire department.”

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