{"id":424864,"date":"2026-08-05T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424864\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:20:07","slug":"michigan-republicans-rally-behind-ticket-after-divisive-gubernatorial-primary-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424864\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Republicans rally behind ticket after divisive gubernatorial primary \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story was originally published<\/a> by Michigan Advance. Sign up for their weekly newsletter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By Katherine Dailey, Michigan Advance<\/a><\/p>\n

Republicans gathered in Macomb County Wednesday for a Unity Luncheon, stirring up support heading into the general election cycle the morning after the primary election, which included a contentious GOP gubernatorial contest.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo those who supported me, thank you. Those who didn\u2019t, I\u2019m going to continue to work to earn your trust each and every single day,\u201d said U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Twp.), who won that competitive gubernatorial primary. \u201cToday marks Michigan\u2019s comeback.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Bruce Township), the conference chair of the Republican Party, said to the crowd, \u201cI\u2019m here to tell you, we are here to put Michigan back on the map, and that\u2019s exactly what we intend to do with some of our candidates today in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event was hosted by U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers, who was unopposed in his primary, and included speeches by James, as well as Attorney General and Secretary of State nominees Doug Lloyd and Anthony Forlini. Also speaking were congressional nominees Terri DeBoer, Ethan Baker and Michael Bouchard, nominees in the 3rd, 11th and 10th Districts, respectively, as well as Thomas Smith, who won the 8th District despite suspending his campaign in mid-July.<\/p>\n

\u201cLove of country is why we win. It\u2019s because we know that our country is at a crossroads,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cWe stand for American ideals, and in November we will deliver real solutions for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others in the crowd included Republican state legislators state Sen. Ruth Johnson (R-Holly) and state Rep. Donni Steele (R-Orion Township), as well as Oakland County GOP Chair Vance Patrick, who was an ardent supporter of Perry Johnson in his failed gubernatorial primary bid.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Michigan Advance is an affiliate of State Newsroom, the nation\u2019s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. To support, its journalism, donate here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story was originally published by Michigan Advance. Sign up for their weekly newsletter here. By Katherine Dailey,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[204,181,23,16663,100,143,145,144,13],"class_list":["post-424864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-election","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-michigan-news","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}