'Incompetent dumpster fire': GOPer apologizes for helping elect Michigan party chair

Conservatives in a key swing state are tearing their hair out over an “incompetent dumpster fire” GOP party leader who could tip the scales against Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, a new report states.

Michigan Republicans are furious about the leadership of Kristina Karamo, whose opponents say she has pushed the state GOP to “the brink of bankruptcy” by building up more than $600,000 in debt, according to a new CNN analysis.

“If I would have known that Kristina Karamo would have turned out to be such a tyrannical incompetent dumpster fire I would never have worked so hard to get her elected,” Dawn Beattie, a state committee member, reportedly said in an email. “For that I apologize.”

This “financial turmoil” has Republicans demanding new leadership less than a year before the presidential election, spurring concern among Trump supporters in the state, according to the report.

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“Michigan has moved increasingly in the battleground-leaning column,” Michigan Republican strategist Dennis Lennox told CNN. “Republicans desperately need to find a roadmap to win.”

The rocky state of the state GOP is especially concerning considering Trump lost Michigan to President Joe Biden in the 2020, the report notes.

“You want a state party that is firing on all cylinders, and then you want a strong candidate who can win,” Doug Heye, a GOP strategist, told CNN. “If you have an issue with either of those two, that can be one of the things that tips the scales for a race.”

A source close to the Trump campaign told CNN the Michigan GOP is a mess.

Karamo did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment but earlier this month lambasted her critics whom she accused of conspiring with Democrats and the media as she tries to fix financial problems that predate her leadership.

But Andy Sebolt, a party district chair who Karamo removed from a state-level-position, believes her management could cost Trump the White House, he told CNN.

“We should have a fighting chance in the state of Michigan to award our electors to a Republican,” Sebolt reportedly said. “With this chaos and alienation of other Republicans, we don’t stand that chance.”