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Michigan Secretary of State candidate Kristina Karamo is calling out incumbent Democrat Jocelyn Benson over funding and support her campaign has received.

Benson assumed office in 2019. Her campaign has received the assistance of a George Soros-backed group.

“There's a reason why Soros has been going after the secretary of state's race, it’s because the secretary of state is the chief election officer and if you have a dishonest and corrupt individual sitting in that office, they can subvert the will of the people,” Karamo told Steve Bannon on his show Bannon's War Room. "And if they control the secretary of states in the battleground states like Michigan, Arizona and other places, Nevada as well, then they control the White House. They control Congress and with the Democratic attempt to centralize more and more power in the federal government, they can take over our country.”

Karamo said we, the people, have no power and no voice.

“This race is so critical and the Democrats understand the critical nature of this race. This is why they are so far between my opponent and groups supporting her have spent over $3 million in media, $3 million of commercials to beat little old me,” she said. “Why are they afraid of little old me? Because they're terrified that our movement, the populist movement that we see sweeping America and our state will defeat them and then we will retain control over the election, send them back to the people of Michigan, irrespective of political affiliation. Everyone needs to join in and support our cause to take this woman out of office.”

Hedge fund billionaire Soros is one of the founders of the Secretary of State Project of which Benson has been a beneficiary.

Karamo criticized the group in an ad for its attempt to form a funding network to support the campaigns of secretaries of state across the region.

“What if we told you Jocelyn Benson is part of the Secretary of State Project, a political organization founded in July 2006 by none other than George Soros to advance election protection measures? Their goal was to elect Democrat secretaries of state in swing and battleground states, specifically those whose margin of victory in the 2004 election was 120,000 votes or less. Place politicians where the races are close. That was always the plan. Jocelyn Benson has been funded by Soros for years and has the power to influence Michigan elections. And she already has,” a Karamo ad played by Bannon during the broadcast reads. "There is no race more important."

Benson was the target of former President Donald Trump’s ire who alleged massive corruption in the state in the 2020 elections.

Karamo has echoed Trump’s concerns that the election was “rigged” under Benson, according to CNBC.

Karamo received the early endorsement of the state’s GOP.

“I’m fighting for the people of Michigan, irrespective of political affiliation,” Karamo said at the time of the endorsement.

Karamo was a pollwatcher at the TCF Center in Michigan where several irregularities were reported to which she and others alerted federal authorities, according to mlive.com.

The TCF Center was the focus of GOP protests after claims that poll watchers were being unfairly kept away from the absentee vote counting process.

“We are certified poll challengers and they are not letting us in,” GOP poll watcher Gena Giannuzzi of Canton told the Detroit Free Press in November 2020. “They are telling us they are not letting anyone else in but media and lawyers. What can we do? If they block our way, what right do we have? We are peaceful people … just asking for the opportunity to go in there and to just make sure it’s a fair election. That’s all we want.”