Joten: Has this democratic strategy worked far in these primers? And i guess we have to define what working means. In some cases, like that in california with david valadeo, it absolutely did not work. In other cases, such as illinois, for instance, the far right candidate that democrats were backing, daren bailey, he won. It's very sso they picked a candidate, but they didn't necessarily pick a losing candidate. Joten: If a far right republican election denier is elected governor in pennsylvania, the ramifications for democracy and for the democratic party are very severe.
Democrats are meddling in Republican primaries this year to an unusual degree, attempting to elevate extremist candidates who they think will be easy to defeat in midterms in the fall.
Nowhere has that strategy been more divisive than in the election for a House seat in Michigan.
Guest: Jonathan Weisman, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.
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