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If those who vandalized the Michigan State GOP headquarters were seeking to lower the morale of party members or take away momentum heading into the home stretch of the general election, they made a miscalculation.

Michigan's Republican Party Chairman Laura Cox made an appearance on "The Frank Beckmann Show" to talk about the incident that drew state headlines, along with national political prospects amid visits by President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Vice President Joe Biden.

She noted it was not the first time the headquarters have been vandalized.

“Well, this isn’t the first time it's happened under my leadership and, unfortunately, the radical left has resorted to tactics of violence and vandalism and intimidation,” she said on the show. “As the Republican Party chair, I'm going to tell you, we will not back down, we won't be intimidated, and we will deliver Michigan for President Trump in November.”

Cox said the vandalism was in line with some of the recent derogatory statements toward law enforcement.

“This is just an anti-police statement on our headquarters, and some are directly obviously pointed right at me when they say, ‘F ICE,’ which is where I used to work,” Cox told Beckmann. “So, you know, it is absolutely bad politics. It’s nasty politics, but the Democrats are desperate. And this agenda is bad for America, and we're going to continue to talk about why defunding the police is bad.”

On the local scene, Cox addressed an op-ed by former Gov. Rick Snyder endorsing Biden, referring to Snyder as "irrelevant" and a state politician who has not done anything for state candidates before or after he took office.

While Beckmann pointed out the latest polls show that Biden is leading, Cox said all signs point toward Trump, given the strength of his policies and economic recovery. There is also the COVID-19 pandemic, where Cox feels that Biden has been somewhat hypocritical.

“Joe Biden called him (Trump) a xenophobe for wanting to ban travel, so there is a stark contrast between the two gentlemen that are running to be our president, and I firmly believe that the president's leadership, defending the men and women in blue, protecting our borders, those kinds of things are going to mean something when we vote in November,” Cox said on the radio program.

There is also the matter of the economy, which Cox and the Republican Party feel that Trump can once again lead to a booming recovery and provide economic security and quality jobs to American citizens.

“The bottom line is the Obama-Biden era had the slowest economic recovery since World War II,” Cox told Beckmann. “In contrast, we had a robust economy under President Trump, and I know we will have a swift recovery under his leadership, along with fighting for American workers, trade deals, taking China to task. The president has shown time and time again he is the America First president, and we want to make sure that people hear his message and remember it when they go to the polls in November.”