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As Gretchen Whitmer woos voters ahead of the Nov. 8 election, the Michigan governor works to boost turnout by highlighting her work to protect voting and abortion rights and blasting the GOP as ‘too extreme.’
Not a lot of common ground between Nessel, a progressive Democrat, and DePerno, a Trump-endorsed attorney. She supports abortion rights, same-sex marriage and the integrity of the 2020 election. He opposes abortion and sees corruption in Nessel’s office and in Trump’s 2020 defeat.
The first term Democrat is locked in a tough fight against GOP challenger Matthew DePerno. She says she’s been a frequent target for threats based on her identity as a Jewish woman who is Michigan’s first LGBTQ statewide public official.
In the final days in the most expensive campaign in Michigan, volunteers working overtime to counter ‘confusing and extreme’ narrative of the constitutional amendment.
Democratic incumbent Jocelyn Benson called a lawsuit arguing Detroit residents should be required to cast their absentee ballots in person 'egregious.'
Half of Michigan votes in next week's election are expected to be cast absentee, but many municipalities aren't taking advantage of new rules allowing some pre-processing.
At a Sunday rally, the GOP candidate says: ‘The only person that was governor when we had a school shooting in Michigan was Gretchen Whitmer. And I haven't seen her do anything about it.’
The latest campaign reports also show GOP gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon is closing the fundraising gap with Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Republican candidates for attorney general and secretary of state still trail behind the Democratic incumbents.
Commissioners say election probe is a waste of money, cut funding for a third detective who was to investigate violent crime, not ballots. Separately, Leaf tried to charge a health officer for enforcing COVID orders, prosecutor says.
What happens after voters drop an absentee ballot into a drop box? A look at the painstaking verification and counting process that could delay results 24 hours after polls close.
In a clip from a conservative show, the GOP governor candidate says Democrats saw COVID as a ‘gift’ to topple country and refers to schools as ‘government-run indoctrination centers.’
DePerno is Michigan’s top election conspiracy theorist, spending years trying to prove Donald Trump won the state. Now, he’s locked in a tight race with Attorney General Dana Nessel, who has her own baggage.