By THOMAS BEAUMONT and DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Josh Venable, a longtime Michigan GOP operative and chief of staff to former U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, can trace the arc of the state's Republican Party clearly. 'This was the state where to be Republican was defined by Gerald Ford and George Romney,' Venable said, referring to the moderate former president and former governor. Now, he said, it's defined by Mike Shirkey, the state Senate majority leader who was overheard calling the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot a 'hoax'; Meshawn Maddock, the new co-chair of the state […]
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