MI-HD27: Rylee Linting, Michigan GOP statehouse hopeful, is closely aligned with election deniers
Rylee Linting, the GOP candidate for Michigan’s 27th State House District seat, has openly embraced some of the most blatant election deniers in the state and the country in her campaign.
The 22-year-old youth vice chair of the Michigan Republican Party has positioned herself mainly as a culture warrior that aims to “hold liberal universities accountable for their actions” with “indoctrination” and fight against vaccine mandates. She also comes from Turning Point Action, the advocacy arm of far-right activist Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA.
But despite not speaking much on it, she has accepted endorsements of some of the most prominent 2020 election deniers in the state. She accepted the endorsement of state Rep. Jim DeSana (R-Carleton), who last year tried and failed to impeach Attorney General Dana Nessel for prosecuting the 16 fake Republican electors that tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election. While running for youth vice chair last year, she accepted the endorsement of Linda Lee Tarver, a Republican activist who in 2020 filed a lawsuit attempting to overturn the state’s electoral win for President Joe Biden.
She praised and spoke at an event with Patrick Byrne, one of the main fundraisers and pushers of 2020 conspiracy theories and election subversion attempts. And according to a 2023 Daily Beast report, she spoke favorably of Matt DePerno, the failed GOP attorney general candidate who was being investigated for (and is now indicted for) alleged felony tampering of election equipment during the 2020 election.
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