Now that the state Supreme Court has said it will not honor the Left-wing groups' request to remove frontrunner Donald Trump from the state's presidential primary ballot, Republicans in Michigan, at least for now, are breathing a sigh of relief.
But Ron Armstrong, president of the grassroots Stand Up Michigan, does not think that will be enough to carry them through the fall.
"That voter turnout needs to be extremely heavy in rural Republican counties and districts and precincts, because we do control the process in much of those areas," he says. "I think we have got to overwhelm them in those areas by utilizing this absentee ballot process. We can, I believe, do that."
But Armstrong also suspects Republican voters are struggling with fatigue.
"By voters losing elections in '22, some states in '23 … instead of an invigorated voting group like we saw in 2020, I am not confident at this point that the Independents and that the Republicans are going to come out in the numbers that are necessary," the conservative acknowledges. "One thing we know is the Left is going to get their votes in the bank because they're going to be on college campuses, they're going to be at the union shops, they're going to be at every organization getting their people to turn in their ballots."
"It's not a turnout process," he adds. "It's a turn-in process."
And if conservatives do not participate in the process, then Armstrong asserts they will lose this election.
According to a Real Clear Politics average of head-to-head polls, the former president leads the current president with nearly 46% support, compared to 41%.
