(WWJ) -- Former President Donald Trump, while endorsing a handful of Michigan politicians on Monday, said the state “needs a new legislature.”
Trump released statements Monday endorsing three Republicans for office in 2022, Mike Detmer and John Gibbs -- who are both challenging other Republicans -- as well as Rachelle Smit, a small-town clerk in Allegan County.
In his endorsement of Smit, who is the current township clerk for Martin, in southwest Michigan, Trump said “Michigan needs a new legislature. The cowards there now are too spineless to investigate Election Fraud."
Smit plans to run for the Michigan House of Representatives in next year’s election. He said she’s “a twice-elected clerk who knows our Elections are not secure, and that there was rampant Voter Fraud” in last year’s presidential election.
Trump also called Sen. Ed McBroom a “loser” in his endorsement of Mike Detmer, who is expected to state Sen. Lana Theis, who he called McBroom’s “deputy for his trash report.”
Theis is the vice chairwoman of the Senate Oversight Committee, which found no evidence of widespread fraud in last year’s election.
“Lana Theis refuses to support a Forensic Audit and refuses to admit there was pervasive Voter Fraud in the 2020 Election,” Trump said in his statement. “Think of it, nothing was found wrong in Detroit, one of the most corrupt cities in the U.S., whose elections over the years have been a joke.”
Detmer was a former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, who lost in last year’s primary election to Paul Junge, who went on to lose to U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin.
Trump also threw his support behind John Gibbs, according to a report from the Detroit News. Gibbs is expected to challenge U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer, who was one of two Michiganders to vote to impeach Trump.
Meijer has become the target of at least three challengers in the wake of his impeachment vote.
Gibbs previously served as a staffer for the former president.
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