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Democrats are trying to wake up disaffected voters by calling Doug Mastriano an existential threat

PHILADELPHIA — Democrats are sounding the alarm. In the days since State Sen. Doug Mastriano decisively clinched the Republican nomination for governor, progressive groups, labor unions, and liberal elected officials have framed the midterm election in existential terms.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

School massacre continues Texas' grim run of mass shootings

The gunman who killed 19 elementary school children and two adults in Texas added to the state's grim recent history of mass shootings

The Independent UK

Five key takeaways: the US midterm elections

Races from Georgia to Texas were a litmus test of Trump’s hold on the Republican party with some significant losses

The Guardian - US

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Brad Raffensperger defeats Trump bid to oust him as Georgia’s top election official

The secretary of state had been excoriated by many in the GOP for refusing to help overturn the 2020 election

The Guardian - US

Georgia election results: Trump foe Brian Kemp wins primary as Herschel Walker secures GOP Senate nom

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GOP gubernatorial debates: Bailey calls Chicago ‘a crime-ridden, corrupt, dysfunctional hellhole’

It was a bleak picture painted by the half of the GOP primary field — venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan, businessman Gary Rabine and state Sen. Darren Bailey — who squared off during a live debate hosted by WGN-TV.

Chicago Sun-Times

Georgia Gov. Kemp beats Trump’s hand-picked challenger in GOP primary — will face Stacey Abrams

Tuesday’s primary elections featured the inaugural stop in former President Donald Trump’s 2020 revenge tour — the first opportunities he’s had to unseat Republicans whom he considers disloyal for refusing to acquiesce in his baseless fraud claims.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wins Republican runoff election against George P. Bush

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton easily won Tuesday’s runoff election over Republican challenger George P. Bush, a sign that the incumbent’s mounting legal problems were of little concern to GOP voters.

Tribune News Service

Polls close in special primary for Minnesota's 1st Congressional District

WASHINGTON — Polls closed Tuesday in southern Minnesota's 1st Congressional District primary race, where a crowd of Republicans and Democrats are competing to serve the final months of the late GOP Rep. Jim Hagedorn's term.

Tribune News Service

GOP gubernatorial debates: Irvin more elusive than lesser known rivals Schimpf and Solomon

During a rapid-fire “yes or no,” segment, Max Solomon and Paul Schimpf agreed that the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 were not an “insurrection.” But Richard Irvin touted his credentials as a lawyer and said, “I don’t think it’s a ‘yes or no’ question.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton wins Texas GOP primary for attorney general

Even with his considerable baggage, Paxton is the odds-on favorite to win re-election in November.

Axios

Rematch: Kemp’s GOP victory sets up another battle with Abrams

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp defeated former U.S. Sen. David Perdue to score a GOP primary victory that showed the limits of Donald Trump’s endorsement in Georgia and set up a rematch against Democrat Stacey Abrams in November.

Tribune News Service

Rep. Lauren Underwood leading drive to bolster swing district Democrats on Obamacare subsidies

At issue are pending increases in health insurance costs for Affordable Care Act plans. Voters will learn just before the November elections that temporarily boosted subsidies will expire in 2023 — unless Congress acts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Marjorie Taylor Greene wins GOP primary in Georgia

Controversial congresswoman managed to avoid angering her own constituents

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Trump's pick for governor — who ran on election lies — loses to Kemp in Georgia

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp won the GOP primary for governor over former U.S. Sen. David Perdue. Kemp will face Democrat Stacey Abrams in November — a rematch of 2018.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Court battles over ballots in the McCormick-Oz Pennsylvania Senate race have split the GOP

PHILADELPHIA — The national and state Republican parties vowed Tuesday to oppose GOP Senate candidate David McCormick in his lawsuit seeking to have potentially hundreds of contested mail ballots counted in his neck-and-neck primary race against Mehmet Oz.

Axios

Republicans parade Georgia's record early turnout for renewed "election integrity" push

Democrats say the high turnout does not prove voter suppression has not occurred.

The Independent UK

‘Idolatry of violence’: AOC attacks ‘pro life’ GOP over Texas school shooting

18 students and three adults dead after attack on elementary school

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Roll Call

Biden renews calls for Congress to 'stand up' to gun lobby after Texas school shooting - Roll Call

No sooner than President Joe Biden had returned home, he was speaking to the country Tuesday as mourner-in-chief after another mass shooting.

Tribune News Service

Republican Michael Brown withdraws from Michigan governor's race after petition forgery report

LANSING, Mich. — Republican Michael Brown, one of five candidates caught up in a wave of reportedly fraudulent petition signatures, withdrew Tuesday morning from the race to be Michigan's next governor.

Orlando Sentinel

Central Florida ‘ghost’ candidate, other figures tied to scandal charged

ORLANDO, Fla. — Jestine Iannotti, one of three “ghost” candidates who ran as independents for Florida Senate seats in 2020, has been arrested on several criminal charges, alongside a political consultant involved in launching her campaign and Seminole County’s Republican Party chairman.

Roll Call

Key results from Tuesday's primaries and runoffs - Roll Call

Primaries and runoffs in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Minnesota and Texas chose nominees ahead of the fall midterm House and Senate races.

The Independent UK

Indiana bans transgender athletes from school sports by voting to override governor’s veto

ACLU immediately files lawsuit alleging violations of federal antidiscriminaton law

Roll Call

Senate confirms Democratic nominee to FEC - Roll Call

Democratic attorney Dara Lindenbaum got bipartisan support in the Senate Tuesday for her nomination to the Federal Election Commission.

The Independent UK

'Ghost' candidate, 2 operatives face charges in Florida

Two political operatives and an independent candidate who opponents say hardly campaigned and only entered a state Senate race in central Florida in 2020 to siphon votes from a Democrat have been criminally charged

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