Michigan Republican resigns from GOP committee citing 'delusional lies' Craig Mauger The Detroit News

Michigan Republican resigns from GOP committee citing 'delusional lies'

Craig Mauger The Detroit News

Lansing — Tony Daunt, a longtime Michigan Republican insider, resigned Tuesday night from the GOP's state committee, saying party leaders had made the coming election a test of "who is most cravenly loyal" to former President Donald Trump.

Daunt, who is one of two Republican members of the Board of State Canvassers, made the comment in an email addressed to Judy Rapanos, chairwoman of the 4th Congressional District Republican Committee. The message was obtained by The Detroit News.

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For five years, Daunt has been one of about 100 members of the Republican Party's state committee, a panel that helps guide the party's decisions. But that ended Tuesday with his immediate resignation, three days after a contentious GOP convention in Grand Rapids.

Instead of focusing on Democrats' "myriad failures," Daunt wrote that "feckless, cowardly party 'leaders' have made the election here in Michigan a test of who is the most cravenly loyal to Donald Trump and re-litigating the results of the 2020 cycle."

Daunt described Trump as a "deranged narcissist."

The former president has maintained unproven claims that fraud cost him Michigan's 2020 election, assertions that have divided the state's Republicans. Trump lost the 2020 race to Democrat Joe Biden by 154,000 votes or 3 percentage points.