Dems spent millions to boost far-right candidates like MI's John Gibbs -- and the tactic paid off

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(Detroit Metro Times) Democrats drew criticism earlier this year when they decided to meddle in GOP primaries to promote election-denying, Trump-endorsed Republicans.

The idea was to increase Democrats’ odds in the general election under the assumption that the extremists would be easier to defeat.

The controversial scheme paid off on Election Day in Michigan and other states.

John Gibbs, a far-right election denier endorsed by former President Donald Trump, was handily defeated by Hillary Scholten, the Democratic nominee, for a U.S. House seat representing the Grand Rapids area. Scholten, who won with nearly 55% of the vote, became the first Democrat to represent the Grand Rapids area since the 1970s.

Ahead of the August primary election, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent at least $425,000 on TV ads to promote Gibbs, who was facing incumbent U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer, a more moderate Republican who voted to impeach Trump for inciting violence during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. ..............(more)

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