LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republicans in Michigan may choose a MAGA activist leader who is charged with being a fake elector for Donald Trump to lead the party into the 2026 midterms, when the ...

The party's state committee voted to replace Karamo, who has never conceded her double-digit 2022 election loss to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, with Hoekstra, a former west Michigan ...

Jim Runestad, a conservative firebrand from Oakland County, is the Michigan Republican ... voted to oust Karamo as chairwoman. They replaced her with former U.S. Pete Hoekstra.

In 2023, a grassroots revolution ushered in political newcomer Kristina Karamo ... resulted in some Michigan Republicans, national Republicans and Trump installing Hoekstra in her place.