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Craig Mauger
@CraigDMauger
Covers state government and politics in Michigan for @detroitnews. Email is cmauger@detroitnews.com.
Jun 3, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The 5th day of preliminary exams for 6 of Michigan's false electors from 2020 has just begun this morning.

Howard Shock, the Attorney General's investigator, is on the stand at the moment. Kevin Kijewski asked Shock about an expenditure the Trump campaign made at the Radisson hotel on Dec. 15, 2020.

The Trump electors met at the Radisson at some point on Dec. 14, 2020.

"Minnetonka, MI" is not a place that exists, as far as I know. Image
Apr 17, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Here's a 🧵of the 9 Michigan political figures who have been charged over last 13 months for crimes related to the movement of money in Lansing April 6, 2023: Federal prosecutors unveil charges against former House Speaker Rick Johnson, saying he received more than $100,000 in cash bribes and free flights as chair of the state marijuana licensing board

Johnson pleaded guilty in April 2023. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…
Oct 4, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Here's a 🧵

In criticizing new poll numbers, I've been hearing a lot from some Michigan Republicans about poll results being off in the 2018 U.S. Senate race, featuring John James.

Let's dive a little deeper into the numbers. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… There are some similarities in the survey results.

In late Sept. 2022, Whitmer is leading Dixon by 17 points.

In late Sept./early Oct. 2018, Sen. Debbie Stabenow was leading James by 18 in our poll.

Stabenow eventually won on Election Day by 6.
detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…
Sep 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Among the interesting comments:

"Everybody that's been giving money, this is you guys. You funded this," DePerno's client, Bill Bailey, said during a 2021 interview about a video that showed a so-called expert running ballots through a tabulator in a Royal Oak apartment. On the steps of the Michigan Capitol in June 2021, DePerno said the following, according to a video obtained by @detroitnews:

"I can only do so much. I can assemble a couple of attorneys in Michigan. I can get some forensic experts. We can get our hands on some machines."
Oct 6, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Here’s an image from the video of the “Michigan Constitutional Crusader” recording in the office of the Secretary of the Senate: "Can I help you guys with something?"

"We're just looking around, thanks."
Dec 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A sheriff has filed a suit with affidavits that focus on a conspiracy theory about markers that was debunked literally weeks ago.

This is an affidavit in the case filed in federal court: “I do not know if my ballot was appropriately counted due to completing it with a marker.” The fact that this is still floating around and getting coverage as a legitimate concern is unfortunate.

From the Michigan Secretary of State:
Dec 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The facts are the facts.

Michigan GOP lawmakers gave individuals whose election claims have previously been refuted a new and brighter spotlight to make their false assertions again this week: detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… During the hearing, one lawmaker asked a "witness" why the media keeps saying his claims have been debunked.

It's because it takes one call to a local clerk or election official to debunk the person's claim.
Dec 3, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Wow.

The beginning of the City of Detroit's response to Sidney Powell's lawsuit in Michigan: Image MORE: "Plaintiffs seek nothing less than a court-ordered coup d’état. They, quite literally, ask that the results for the selection of Michigan’s Presidential electors in the November 3, 2020 election 'be set aside.'"
Dec 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A number of GOP poll watchers who appeared before the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee seemed to believe it was suspicious that they saw few Trump votes counted in the TCF Center.

In actuality, it's not suspicious at all. Detroit, like most large cities, is a very Democratic leaning city.

Of Election Day voters in Detroit, Trump got 8% of the vote.

But we would expect him to do worse among absentee voters, because he repeatedly questioned mail-in ballots.
Dec 2, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Getting many emails this morning claiming that Melissa Carone, the Dominion contractor, revealed massive election fraud during her Michigan Senate testimony on Tuesday.

Below is what a judge and the City of Detroit said about her claims in past court filings: ImageImage Here's 1 more from the City of Detroit on the claim that there was a late-night dump of 50,000 to 100,000 ballots.

This is something that would be easily provable had it actually occurred. Image