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Story · February 27, 2024

Trump Won Michigan. The State GOP Was Still Sorting Out Its Own Fight.

By The Daily Fuckup Newsroom · From the February 27, 2024 edition

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Correction: This story referred to a separate same-day court ruling about Michigan GOP leadership. It did not affect Donald Trump’s Michigan primary result or ballot access.

Donald Trump won the Michigan Republican primary on Feb. 27, 2024, adding another state to his path toward the nomination. The result was straightforward. The politics around it were not.

On the same day, a Kent County judge ruled that Kristina Karamo had been properly removed as chair of the Michigan Republican Party. That decision dealt with who controlled the state party, not with Trump’s ballot access, delegate count, or the outcome of the primary itself.

The contrast mattered because Michigan was already a place where the Republican Party had been living with internal upheaval. Trump’s win showed that GOP voters in the state were still behind him. The court ruling showed that the party apparatus around him was still trying to settle a separate leadership fight.

The result was not a legal hit to Trump. It was a reminder that winning a primary does not automatically fix a fractured state party, even in a state that matters for both the nomination race and the general election.

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