It has been five years since the disastrous 2020 election, and despite President Trump’s return to power, Michigan Republicans are still fighting to expose the full extent of Biden’s stolen victory. The Michigan Legislature remains deeply divided, with Republicans holding a 58-52 majority in the House, while Democrats control the Senate by a razor-thin 19-18 margin, following the resignation of Sen. Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-Midland).
Far-left Governor Gretchen Whitmer has so far refused to call a special election to fill the seat, concerned that her party will lose a special election and thereby lose Democrat control of the State Senate, leaving the Senate with 37 active members and potential legislative gridlock on major issues—including election integrity.
But Republicans in control of the Michigan House have been committed to investigating election integrity and past examples of voter fraud.
The fight over 2020 fraud is heating up again as Michigan House Speaker Pro Tempore Rachelle Smit (R) took the battle directly to the House Oversight Committee today, demanding a rare legislative subpoena against Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson—who oversaw Michigan’s deeply compromised 2020 election.
Benson announced in January that she’s running for Michigan’s Governor in the 2026 election.
Smit, testifying before the House Oversight Committee led by Chair Jay DeBoyer, who is a former County Clerk himself, she outlined the ways in which her office had been stonewalled and sandbagged by the Democrat Secretary of State.
Testy exchanges and recriminations during the hearing reflect the atmosphere in Lansing, where Democrats lost unified control of both chambers of the legislature and the Governor’s office. Democrats suggested that, instead of a subpoena, the department simply be allowed to come testify on their own in 4-6 weeks.
Republicans said no more delays.
Democrats, in the minority, then suggested that instead of a subpoena, the department simply be given more time to comply.
Hellbound and Down 