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Stateside Podcast: MIGOP fracture over Karamo leadership

Michigan GOP Chair Kristina Karamo speaks at the 2023 Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference.
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Michigan GOP Chair Kristina Karamo speaks at the 2023 Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference.

Critics of Kristina Karamo, the chairperson of the Michigan Republican Party, have planned a meeting for this Saturday to decide whether or not they will remove Karamo as state party chair. This meeting is the culmination of contentions over party finances and frustrations with Karamo’s involvement in disputes within the MIGOP.

Karamo has called into question the legitimacy of this meeting, and some say a battle in court will likely ensue. On this episode of the Stateside podcast, we talk about the Karamo debacle, and what this all means in light of the Presidential election year.

GUEST ON THIS EPISODE:

  • Jonathan Oosting, Capitol reporter for Bridge Magazine

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Corrected: January 5, 2024 at 2:28 PM EST
A precious version of this story erroneously said that Kristina Karamo has been Michigan Republican Party for two years. She was elected in February 2023.
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Rachel Ishikawa joined Michigan Public in 2020 as a podcast producer. She produced Kids These Days, a limited-run series that launched in the summer of 2020.
Olivia Mouradian recently graduated from the University of Michigan and joined the Stateside team as an intern in May 2023.