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Former Michigan GOP party leader flips sides. How he's working to defeat Trump
Todd Spangler, Detroit Free PressPublished 7:00 a.m. ET July 10, 2020 | Updated 11:49 a.m. ET July 10, 2020
Jeff Timmer used to be a key Republican operative in Michigan, the state party’s executive director, the smart guy who helped draw legislative and congressional districts that still make Democrats crazy. He spent three decades linked to a party fighting for abortion controls, limited government, free-market policies.
But he couldn’t bring himself to support Donald Trump in 2016.
Four years after he and 75,000 other Michiganders sat on the sidelines in that election, Timmer is back, though not so much as a Republican: On Twitter, he excoriates Trump and mocks him and the president’s allies in the starkest of terms. As an adviser to the Lincoln Project — a group of former Republican consultants from across the U.S. who want to defeat Trump and elect Joe Biden — he is part of what has been one of the most trenchant and recognizable opposition brands in the 2020 campaign.
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Todd Spangler, Detroit Free PressPublished 7:00 a.m. ET July 10, 2020 | Updated 11:49 a.m. ET July 10, 2020
Jeff Timmer used to be a key Republican operative in Michigan, the state party’s executive director, the smart guy who helped draw legislative and congressional districts that still make Democrats crazy. He spent three decades linked to a party fighting for abortion controls, limited government, free-market policies.
But he couldn’t bring himself to support Donald Trump in 2016.
Four years after he and 75,000 other Michiganders sat on the sidelines in that election, Timmer is back, though not so much as a Republican: On Twitter, he excoriates Trump and mocks him and the president’s allies in the starkest of terms. As an adviser to the Lincoln Project — a group of former Republican consultants from across the U.S. who want to defeat Trump and elect Joe Biden — he is part of what has been one of the most trenchant and recognizable opposition brands in the 2020 campaign.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE