As the battle over who is the actual leader of the MIGOP continues to play out in dueling press releases and alternate websites from Chair Kristina Karamo [migop.org] and Co-Chair Malinda Pego [mi-gop.org], the core function of the party — raising money to get Republicans elected to office and keeping them there — has been derailed by a fundraising drought and leadership selection process that seemingly caters to an ever more extreme faction within the party.

migop.org and mi-gop.org…?! Really?

But it’s not just recounts that have left the Arizona Republican Party to fall on lean economic times. While it is true that former chair, Kelli Ward, spent more than $300,000 on “legal consulting” fees in 2022, mostly related to lawsuits contesting Trump’s defeat there in 2020, she also authorized spending more than $530,000 on an election night party and bus tour for Trump-backed candidates, all of whom lost.

Dennis Darnoi, a GOP strategist with Farmington Hills-based Densar Consulting LLC tells the Advance that it really isn’t a mystery why the various state parties are having such trouble.

“They can’t raise money because they’re all following pretty much the same playbook, which is to deny the results of the 2020 election and to demand sort of an ideological purity test that if you are not 100% fully behind Donald Trump, then you are not considered a Republican,” said Darnoi. “It’s very hard to either maintain your donor base, attract new donors or even keep a cohesive party structure if that’s going to be your modus operandi.”

And in spite of all this GOP subnormality, there’s a good number of you misinformed simpler folk in Michigan who still support and will gladly hand this country over to an admitted racist and potential dictator-for-a-day come the second Tuesday in November.

Thoughts?