Grassroots Conservatives, Party Leadership Defend Indicted Michigan GOP Electors
Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel’s recent indictment of 16 duly elected GOP 2020 electors has done what many thought impossible. She has unified Michigan Republicans.
Republican grassroots voters, low and high-level party officers, local elected officials, state legislators, and members of Congress are all expressing outrage over Ms. Nessel’s charging the 16 with multiple counts of fraud and forgery for attempting to present themselves as an alternate slate of presidential electors to Congress, as that body on Jan. 6, 2021, certified the outcome of the election.
State Rep. Josh Schriver (R-Oxford) at a press conference in Macomb County, Mich. on July 19, 2023. (Steven Kovac/Epoch Times)
At a July 19 press conference—turned rally—in Macomb County, a voter named Peter told The Epoch Times, “I’ve seen first-hand the tactics of the communist regime in my native Poland….