Oakland County was kind of the quintessential suburban America. It was a very

white middle-class, upper-middle-class, reliably Republican and really played a

huge role in electing Republican statewide in Michigan for decades and now

as a blue County and will I think keep Michigan firmly in the Democrats

column over the next decades. Today, suburbs. That's right the land of

miniband, garages, roller skates and cul-de-sacs. It will be forever before another

Republican-sniffs-advictory in Oakland County. I'm Eugene Daniels. This is Playbook

Deep Dive. Republican collapse in Michigan's Oakland County once a strong

cold was a long time coming. It was like, you know, what's going on here? How can

we stop this from happening? It's losing these suburbs a warning light for

Trumpism. I live in breathe Twitter, so yes, I can, you know, political

Twitter is oxygen. Jeff Timmer is a long-time Republican strategist in Michigan.

For years, he led the States Republican Party. I was executive director of the

Michigan Republican Party and I am a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project.

Yeah, that Lincoln project. Never Trump Republicans who spent tons of money on

anti-Trump ads last election. Jeff is the guy who helped draw the election

maps in Michigan. He helped elect Republicans for decades. Most won't talk to me anymore.

And now that very party lost in a reliably Republican suburban county when

that Jeff used to base some of his strategy on. If I was still a Republican

wanted Republicans to win, I would look at this as a, you know, certainly as a big

math problem. Republicans from Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell right on down

seemed to have had enough of Donald Trump, but then they quickly realized their

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