“I grew up running around the state Republican headquarters as a little kid,” Roe, 51, said from his home outside Detroit. Roe’s offense: truthfully stating that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen and President Trump — and no one else — was responsible for his failure to win a second term. He believes Trump in many ways changed the Republican Party for the better, broadening its appeal among blue-collar and less-privileged voters. “He was so arrogant to blame the 2020 election ‘loss’ on our Republican president not the Democrats and cited ‘there was no fraud.’ So he’s calling out our president... “It wasn’t the people surrounding Donald Trump who screwed it up,” Roe said of the 2020 election.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 15, 2021 19:56 UTC