{"id":1722210,"date":"2022-11-02T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722210"},"modified":"2022-11-02T18:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T22:19:30","slug":"data-show-most-michigan-voters-dont-go-along-with-woke-culture-their-governor-flirts-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/data-show-most-michigan-voters-dont-go-along-with-woke-culture-their-governor-flirts-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Show Most Michigan Voters Don\u2019t Go Along With Woke Culture. Their Governor Flirts With It."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdata-show-most-michigan-voters-dont-go-along-with-woke-culture-their-governor-flirts-with-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722210&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The majority of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan<\/a> voters aren\u2019t too excited to hop on the woke train, even as their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/whitmer-says-small-businesses-have-her-support-these-small-business-owners-havent-forgotten-her-shutdowns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">governor<\/a> climbs aboard.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the Michigan GOP and Victory Modeling, only around one in five Michiganders fully support woke ideas such as defunding the police, social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/big-tech-worked-closely-with-the-fbi-and-dhs-to-police-disinformation\/\">censorship<\/a>, transgender athletes in women\u2019s sports, and Critical Race Theory. Of the nearly 20,000 potential voters surveyed by the party from April through the end of September, nearly 40% stood strongly opposed to woke culture. Another 40% stood in the middle, accepting some woke terminology while opposing other woke ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan Republican Party is hoping to use the data it has collected to create messaging that hits home with voters across the state as the 2022 election season flies into its final week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the massive cash advantage the Democrats had, we knew we had to invest in a data program early to ensure we were making the best use out of the funds we did have, in large part thanks to Chairman [Ronald] Weiser\u2019s $5 million investment into the Party,\u201d Michigan GOP Chief of Staff Paul Cordes said in a statement to The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/gretchen-whitmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gretchen Whitmer<\/a> (D-MI) has taken heat during her 2022 re-election campaign for comments she made about defunding the police during protests and riots in the summer of 2020. During an Instagram live interview with The Root in June 2020, Whitmer said she supported \u201cthe spirit\u201d of the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really about reprioritizing and rebuilding communities, not just policing. That this is really about where do we, where do we prioritize our resources,\u201d she said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2020\/06\/09\/michigan-gov-whitmer-supports-spirit-of-defunding-police-open-to-ending-qualified-immunity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Click on Detroit. \u201cYou look at budgets and they\u2019re focused on policing \u2014 they should be focused on education, transportation, access to health care, access to skills and leveling the playing field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you do all those other things, you don\u2019t need all the money that\u2019s going to the police departments. So, yeah, I mean, the spirit of it, I do support that spirit of it,\u201d Whitmer added.<\/p>\n<p>The governor attempted to clarify her position on the issue last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/michigan-gov-whitmer-defunding-police-dangerous-and-foolish?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> that defunding the police is \u201cdangerous and foolish.\u201d In a press release, the governor also highlighted a $1 billion investment to fund police, fire, and first responders in a budget approved by a Republican-majority legislature and signed by Whitmer in July.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, the Democratic governor was criticized for pushing another woke term; this one about sexuality. In a Zoom interview with the Michigan Democratic Party in July, Whitmer was discussing an amendment to the state\u2019s constitution to protect abortion rights when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/michigans-gretchen-whitmer-refers-women-menstruating-people-gop-gov-hopefuls-respond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referred<\/a> to women as \u201cmenstruating people.\u201d The term has gained popularity on the Left from LGBTQ activists and politicians who seek to avoid offending biological men who identify as female.<\/p>\n<p>After the remark, Whitmer was blasted by her Republican opponent and gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tudor-dixon-reveals-massive-plan-to-give-more-funding-to-michigan-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tudor Dixon<\/a> who said it was more evidence of the Democratic Party going \u201cinsane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Republicans also came out with an ad Wednesday targeting the governor\u2019s comments about the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement as well as Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel\u2019s record on crime.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cOver the last four months, not only have we had a message that is resonating with voters, but we were able to use our modeling to create audiences of voters who needed to hear it and deliver it to them in an extremely effective manner,\u201d Cordes added. \u201cWe were able to use these models to influence millions of dollars in spending in our digital, TV, streaming and mail plans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of Michigan voters aren\u2019t too excited to hop on the woke train, even as their governor climbs aboard. According to data from the Michigan GOP and Victory Modeling, only around one in five Michiganders fully support woke ideas such as defunding the police, social media censorship, transgender athletes in women\u2019s sports, and Critical &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1722213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}