Three states are experiencing infighting from the Republican Party's right flank supporting former President Donald Trump, which could damage conservatives' chances of garnering the necessary support to win big in 2024.

Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan are three battleground states that decided President Joe Biden's win in 2020 and are sure to affect the 2024 election as well. However, three states are facing financial challenges from pro-Trump figures that could ultimately fracture the Republican Party's abilities to campaign effectively in key races that could decide the next president and makeup of Congress.

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State parties are critical in election years to mobilize grassroots volunteers and run get-out-the-vote campaigns, but many must now put effort into undoing the damage from "Make America Great Again" predecessors that worked, sometimes illegally, to put Trump back in the White House.

In Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan, specifically, the transformation of these states was part of the "Precinct Strategy," coordinated by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, to slot election deniers into local party leadership roles, the Washington Post reported.

“It’s like in any revolution or any civil war,” Bannon said in a recent interview with the outlet. “You get victories. But the moneyed class, they’re not going to sit there and pat you on the head and say, this is terrific.”

Arizona

State GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit is looking for national Republicans for financial support after inheriting the party leadership from Kelli Ward. Ward, whose term ended in January, led Arizona Republicans in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

DeWit's calls for national finances have largely not been answered. People familiar with the discussions between DeWit and the Republican National Committee said that his appeals to the RNC began in February and have extended through mid-September to national and regional staffers, as well as RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.

“He would just ask people, ‘When does money start cycling in?’” one GOP operative familiar with some of DeWit’s requests said. DeWit allegedly said during a meeting with McDaniel and RNC staff in Oklahoma City that the state party was in debt due to bills putting alternative electors forward falsely claiming Trump won Arizona in 2020.

When DeWit took the helm of the Arizona GOP, the party had about $1 million. According to recent financial disclosures, the state party now has $55,000 in its federal account and $34,000 of debt owed to various vendors. McDaniel encouraged DeWit to draft a plan detailing needs and goals but said the national Republican Party would not pay legal bills. RNC officials also reportedly referred DeWit to programs that look to incentivize state parties to branch out their financial and political operations.

The state account reported about $214,000, mostly from a single out-of-state PAC called “Patriot Freedom.” However, the PAC’s treasurer, Patrick Krason, said the $200,000 contribution was meant to help the Arizona GOP oppose ballot measures on ranked choice voting.

Arizona GOP local staff have received texts, calls, and emails constantly from pro-Trump activists who are calling for a purge of Republicans who are deemed unloyal to the cause. A county party stripped Karrin Taylor Robson, who lost the GOP gubernatorial primary to Kari Lake in 2022, of her voting privileges as a GOP precinct committee member.

Robson's loss to Lake was a similar trend across the country in 2022. Several Trump-endorsed candidates defeated centrist Republicans in the primaries but went on to lose to Democrats in the general election, leading to the House's narrow GOP majority and the Senate staying under Democratic control.

Michigan

The Michigan Republican Party is witnessing verbal and physical altercations over the state of the party's finances, as well as overall disputes at the direction the state party is heading.

The Michigan GOP elected Kristina Karamo, a far-right election denier, as its chairwoman in February. She beat out former attorney general candidate Matt DePerno, who was Trump's pick for party chairman. Karamo's victory showed how deeply ingrained beliefs of election denial are in the state's top GOP leaders.

The newly elected party chairwoman has not conceded her 14-percentage-point loss in 2022 for secretary of state, and she has given no indication that her approach to the chairwoman position will be any different.

However, many Republicans have already lost their patience with Karamo's leadership over finances. At a meeting in late October, party officials revealed they had a deficit of $375,000 as of April, with $265,000 in the bank and $640,000 in debt, per a review of internal records.

Karamo blamed past Michigan leaders, accusing them of trying to sabotage her, making her task of raising money and recruiting volunteers harder, and acknowledged her insularity.

“One of the big problems in our party is a constant betrayal by a lot of our Republican elected officials, so that many people quit the party,” she told the October meeting attendees, according to a recording. “I get stabbed in the back by a lot of opportunists.”

Georgia

Georgia Republicans are burdened with legal bills from the alternate electors who were brought on to make false claims that Trump won the 2020 election, putting the party at odds with Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA).

Josh McKoon, who became the chairman of the Georgia GOP in April, echoed a vote taken in January that agreed the party would indemnify the false electors — or compensate them for damages or losses incurred due to a specific incident. McKoon replaced David Shafer, who was indicted in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's investigation into efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss.

At a fundraiser held in Gillsville, Georgia, a few hundred Republicans held a barbecue dinner to raise money for the alternate electors' legal fees. The party’s financial disclosures indicated that it raised $65 million in the four-year period ending in June, and Shafer left the party with $1 million on hand. But now, the Georgia GOP's most recent campaign finance report revealed over $500,000 in legal expenses during the first half of 2023.

Second Vice Chairman David Cross said the state party needs help and has been abandoned by Kemp.

“I know I’m going to get in trouble for this, but our general has not lifted a finger to help the Georgia GOP,” Cross said, referring to Kemp.

Kemp and other establishment Georgia Republicans clashed with the state party over the claims of election fraud in 2020, which Kemp has adamantly pushed back against, as well as Shafer's support of Trump even when the Georgia governor elected to take a step back from the former president. To avoid needing financial support from the state party, Kemp's allies in the Georgia legislature created a political committee two years ago with no contribution limits, according to Capitol Beat.

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McKoon has sought to rebuild a relationship with Kemp, praising the governor's leadership in an interview.

“Yes, some grassroots activists are put out with this Republican or that Republican. What I say to those folks when I talk to them is, you’ve got a decision to make. Do you dislike a Georgia Republican more than you want to win the White House?” he said. “We’ve got to get away from this idea it’s some kind of us-them mentality.”