Michigan GOP Primary Gets More Expensive and Chaotic as Perry Johnson Announces $10M in Spending

Michigan GOP Primary Gets More Expensive and Chaotic as Perry Johnson Announces $10M in Spending

New reporting from The Detroit News reveals that Michigan GOP candidate Perry Johnson is pledging to spend $10 million over the next six weeks, further accelerating the already expensive and wide open race to the far right.

This comes after Johnson pledged to spend at least $9 million in 60 days when he got in the race, adding to the expensive primary which already includes ads from a group called Michigan First Principles that is attacking John James for putting “himself first.”

GOP primary candidates John James, Aric Nesbitt, Mike Cox, and Tom Leonard have also embraced toxic positions to align themselves with Trump’s agenda to rip away health care and raise costs for Michiganders.

John James has continued to face criticism from his own party as he’s avoided voters by skipping events across the state and falling behind in grassroots straw polls.

In fact, every GOP candidate remained completely silent when it was revealed that Anthony Hudson, who was at the time a Republican candidate but is now running as a Libertarian, has repeatedly threatened to hang elected officials.

“The GOP field in Michigan is wide open and Perry Johnson’s massive $10 million cash dump is only going to make this primary more chaotic and expensive,” said DGA Communications Director Sam Newton. “While the Republican field continues to spend millions running to the far-right and to fight with each other, the reality is they all support a deeply unpopular agenda that is raising costs, cutting health care and will ultimately be rejected by voters in November.”

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