Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer has waited over three months to call a special election for a vacant state legislature seat, leaving hundreds of thousands of residents without representation, but ensuring her party’s slim control over the legislature.
Whitmer’s delay is being blasted by Michigan Republicans as a political trick to keep the GOP from gaining a seat in the state senate. The district’s previous state senator, Democrat Kristen McDonald Rivet, was elected to the U.S. House in November. With the vacancy, Democrats maintain a one seat majority in the body, 19-18.
“It’s all politics,” Republican Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt said in an interview with The Daily Wire. He argued that Whitmer is delaying the special election because Republicans have a shot at winning the seat. The 35th state Senate District is a competitive electoral region that…
