Over the weekend, the Michigan Republican Party elected Kristina Karamo as their new Chair. Karamo, who lost the 2022 secretary of state race by 14 percentage points, is an extremist conspiracy theorist with bizarre beliefs.
Karamo has:
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Compared abortion to child sacrifice
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Said January 6 was a false flag
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Condemned LGBTQ+ relationships
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Accused the women who attended the Women’s March of being addicted to porn.
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Falsely claimed Donald Trump won the 2020 election
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Declared that couples living together before marriage opens the door to pedophilia.
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Called schools “indoctrination camps”
“The Republican Party continues to cement itself as the party of MAGA extremism. By making Kristina Karamo the Chair of the Michigan GOP, they are handing the keys of the party over to a bizarre conspiracy theorist who poses a serious threat to our democracy,” said End Citizens United // Let America Vote President Tiffany Muller. “We beat back this threat to democracy in 2022 and we look forward to doing it again in 2024 and beyond.”
Defeating Karamo was a major part of End Citizens United // Let America Vote’s (ECU // LAV) 2022 Democracy Defenders program–a seven figure investment in key Secretary of State and Attorney General races. In conjunction with SAFE, ECU ran broadcast and cable ads highlighting Karamo’s extremism. ECU also released a video showing Michigan voters Karamo’s bizarre theories in her own words.
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