Real estate agent Ryan Kelley appears to be the frontrunner in the Republican race for governor of Michigan.
This comes after Kelly was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and after five candidates, including the top two front-runners, were denied voting because They submitted false petition signatures.
Kelly’s surge was short-lived, largely reflecting the field’s chaotic shake-up after its signature chaos.
On Tuesday night, conservative commentator and business owner Tudor Dixon left with a Republican nod to face Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in November. Donald Trump’s endorsement last week brought Dixon over the finish line in a race where no candidate ran away for the nomination.
Kelly is just one of the Republicans running the cycle, linked to the Capitol riots.he insists that he did not enter the capitol That day, but investigators let him direct the mob into the building. Kelly admitted he attended previous “Stop the Stealing” rallies and claimed his arrest helped boost his profile with Republican voters.
Doug Mastriano of Pennsylvania is another such Republican. Unlike Kelly, the Republican nominee for governor of Keystone has not been charged with breaking the law.But on Jan. 6, the state senator was subpoenaed by the select committee in March, and Mastriano’s lawyers handed over the document On his efforts to organize a pro-Trump bus to Washington
Other Jan. 6-related candidates are winning. In Ohio, JR Majewski, who attended a pre-riot rally, won the Republican nomination to face Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in the House, in a new swing district in Toledo. Sandy Smith, the Republican candidate running for the Northeast North Carolina House seat in the general election, tweeted about the march to the Capitol.
Michigan is one of the most contested battlegrounds in the midterms this year, having chosen Joe Biden and Trump in the past two presidential elections. If he decides to run for president again, the former president has been on the ballot for a long time to build allies at all levels of government. In the wake of the 2020 election, Trump allies tried to arrange another presidential elector in Michigan to illegally give Trump the state’s electoral votes.
In the gubernatorial race, Republicans hope to weed out Whitmer, who has established himself as a national leader during the pandemic and most recently blocked the implementation of the state’s 1931 comprehensive abortion ban after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
