LANSING — Outsider Republicans who echoed former President Donald Trump’s false claims of 2020 election fraud scored a pair of primary upsets in Michigan special elections for vacant state House seats.
Experts say wins by Robert “RJ” Regan in Kent County and Terence Mekoski in Macomb County illustrate the former president’s hold on the party, particularly among voters who continue to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election but nonetheless continue to cast ballots.
Regan, an entrepreneur who recently appeared in an online video advocating for "decertification" of the 2020 election, topped a field of four candidates by 81 votes in the 74th state House district, which includes Grandville and Walker.
“If there was fraud, and if it was proven that this needs to be decertified, that election needs to go back to its rightful winner, which is Donald Trump,” Regan told Bridge Michigan on Wednesday.
On his Facebook page, Regan has called Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine a “fake war just like the fake pandemic.” He has posted photos of himself at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, before riots later that day over Democratic President Joe Biden’s election.
Mekoski, a former Oakland County law enforcement officer who says a "forensic audit" of the 2020 contest is a top priority, topped GOP competitors by 328 votes in the 36th District, which includes Shelby, Bruce and Washington townships.
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