CATCH UP QUICK: What to Know About the MI-10 Race Between Christina Hines and Michael Bouchard Junior

Refresh your memory on what Michiganders have learned about Michael Bouchard Junior:

• Bouchard Jr. “couldn’t name any areas where he disagreed with Trump.” Bouchard Jr. said he wanted to “keep progressing President Trump’s agenda,” even after Trump’s tariffs cost the auto industry over $35 billion, cut health care, and raised gas prices.
• Bouchard Jr. repeatedly defended the war and has refused to say he will vote for the War Powers resolution to end the war. He has refused to say he’d vote to end the war in Iran and said that he doesn’t want to “put whoever the commander is, whether it’s a commander, admiral, general or the president in a position where you restrict their options.”
• Bouchard Jr. backs the tariffs – “Bouchard also said he supported Trump’s tariff policies” and “agreed with Trump’s logic” on tariffs that have cost Michigan families over $5,600 in rising costs and over 8,000 manufacturing jobs.
• Bouchard Jr. supports the bill that gave tens of billions of dollars in tax breaks to data center developers, and took campaign cash from data center developers.

Key reads on the MI-10 race:

• Detroit Free Press: Christina Hines has shot at flipping U.S. House seat based in Macomb County
• Inside Elections: “‘I think he’s doing an incredible job,’ concurred Bouchard, who couldn’t name any areas where he disagreed with Trump. ‘He’s putting our country first, and I think we need more people who are willing to help him put this country first.’”
• 19th News: These prosecutors saw how the justice system failed women. Now they’re running for Congress.
• Detroit Metro Times: Michael Bouchard Jr. took big donations from real estate execs tied to discrimination claims and unsafe housing
• Detroit Metro Times: Republicans distort rape case to falsely attack Christina Hines
• Detroit Metro Times: GOP Congressional candidate Michael Bouchard’s political roots run through a Lansing lobbying firm
• Detroit News: GOP’s Bouchard leans on dad’s donors in key Macomb Co. U.S. House race

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