Why Democrats Are Bankrolling Far-Right Candidates

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

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Democrats are meddling in Republican primaries this year to an unusual degree, attempting to elevate extremist candidates who they think will be easy to defeat in midterms in the fall. Nowhere has that strategy been more divisive than in the election for a House seat in Michigan. Guest: Jonathan Weisman, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:04.0	This is Adelaide.
0:05.0	Today, to an unprecedented degree, Democrats are meddling in Republican primaries this year
0:19.5	in an attempt to elevate far-right candidates who they think will be easier to defeat in
0:25.3	this fall's midterms.
0:27.7	Nowhere is that strategy more controversial than in yesterday's election for a house
0:33.5	seat in Michigan.
0:35.8	My colleague, Jonathan Weissman, explains.
0:42.2	It's Wednesday, August 3rd.
0:46.8	Jonathan, happy primary day to you.
0:52.2	Well, same to you, Michael.
0:53.8	And it's a big day.
0:54.9	And there are actually several closely watched primaries across the country.
0:59.9	One of the most closely watched is the Republican primary for Congress and Michigan.
1:05.0	So Jonathan, tell us about that race.
1:07.8	Okay.
1:08.8	So we're looking at a house seat in Western Michigan centered on the city of Grand Rapids.
1:15.4	It is now represented by a guy named Peter Meyer.
1:19.2	Meyer is a freshman Republican.
1:21.7	He's pretty mainline to moderate.
1:24.5	He comes from one of the biggest names in Western Michigan, the Meyer family.
1:29.7	If you've ever been there, you'll see grocery stores all over the place called Meyer.
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