When President Trump is in the White House, it is convenient for Republicans to pretend to be MAGA Patriots totally aligned with the America First vision but when he is out of office, it is a totally different story. Some RINOs stayed silent as radical leftists tried to throw him in prison and some went totally oppositional.

MAGA means Make America Great Again and while the movement’s message is larger than President Trump, he is undoubtedly its creator and leader that propelled MAGA style politics into our nation’s highest office. Those who opposed Trump for more “electable”, liberal, and Establishment candidates are the opposite of MAGA and shouldn’t mask themselves with it now.

The Carlton County GOP announced they will be holding a “MAGA Gala” with speakers that endorsed Neocon Nikki Haley against President Trump in the 2024 primary and others who stayed totally silent! See below:

Of the listed speakers for the event above, only ONE endorsed/publicly advocated for President Trump and attacked Nikki Haley in the primaries: Governor candidate Phillip Parrish.

That’s right. Every other speaker for the “MAGA Gala” isn’t even MAGA!

One speaker, CD8 State Exec member Andy Aplikowski, reportedly wore a “Never Trump” button at the 2016 RNC convention where he tried to block Trump’s nomination despite him winning over half of the delegates at that convention. In 2021, Alpha News reports that Aplikowski said “I’m a lifelong Republican and I’m calling for the immediate resignation of [President Donald Trump]” and “Get the f*** out of the White House, Republican Party, and Washington and take your anarchist rioters with you.”

Governor candidate Kristin Robbins was the Chair of the Nikki Haley MN Campaign and U.S. Senate candidate Adam Schwarze was one of the CD5 co-chairs for Nikki. Schwarze has since distanced himself from his previous endorsement and donations to Nikki Haley, he has attributed it to his girlfriend supporting Haley and his limited political knowledge at the time on the Truth Hurts show and other interviews. On the other hand, Kristin Robbins was endorsed by Haley for MN Governor and Nikki is fundraising for Robbins with her national contact list. Nikki Haley even called Robbins her "secret weapon”! 

Robbins is a loyal vote for Establishment, corrupt omnibus bills. For example, Robbins has voted for abortion/Planned Parenthood taxpayer funding (HF2435), voted to increase Keith Ellison’s budget when Ellison is constantly suing the Trump Admin (SF3045), giving our state $700M in debt (HF18), and giving billions to woke universities/colleges that refuse to comply with Trump Admin orders like no men in women’s sports (SF1). Does this sound MAGA to conservative voters?

Interestingly, Robbins isn’t the only Governor candidate with ties to Nikki Haley. RINO Kendall Qualls was endorsed by Nikki Haley in his failed CD3 Congress run in 2020 where he wore useless masks on the campaign trail. While Qualls did not endorse Haley in 2024 against Trump, his silence during the primary has been noted by Minnesotans. As evidenced by Qualls performing the WORST in the KSTP polling among GOP candidates polled against Tim Walz, Kendall has failed to build grassroots connections with the MAGA base. 

State Sen. Jason Rarich (SD11) and Rep. Jeff Dotseth (11A) both stayed silent during the GOP primary and refused to stick their necks out there as America First conservatives backing Donald Trump’s epic reelection campaign. The only MN state legislators to endorse Trump in the primary was Sen. Nathan Wesenberg (SD10) on November 2nd, 2023 and Rep. Ben Davis (6A) on December 22nd, 2023. 

The MAGA grift is on and conservatives who have always been America First know that the RINOs are shapeshifting in front of their very eyes. If everybody is MAGA, nobody is MAGA. A4L will continue exposing the radical leftists and RINOs destroying our state.