In the early hours of wednesday morning, representative peter myer was narrowly defeated by john gibbs. Gibbs will now move on to a general election in which his democratic rival is heavily favored to prevail. Jonathan Obeidallah explains why democrats can rationalize doing what they're doing here and taking out moderates like valideo or myer.
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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