An old line, centre style republican is facing off against a very new styled maga. The democratic congressional campaign committee has moved in with a huge adby not to back myer, but to back john gibbs. Gibbs has promised to push that same conservative agenda in congress. And then they go through those policies, hard line against emigrants at the border and so called patriotic education in our schools.
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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