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GOP leaders pick Iowa governor for State of Union response

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1

The Independent UK

GOP Senate candidate's odd slavery claim

"Do you know the only country on the whole planet where Africans were not brought as slaves?" Mandel asked

Salon

Can Democrats beat DeSantis next fall? A look at the odds, and what it would take

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The three Democratic candidates for Florida governor are talking to voters, offering optimistic sound bites to interviewers, and courting financial donors — selling themselves and the premise that they really, truly have a chance to defeat Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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At-risk Democratic incumbents start spending early to try to keep Senate majority

WASHINGTON — More than eight months before the midterm elections, the battle for control of the Senate is already shaping up as a contest centered on entrenched Democratic incumbents and a handful of purple states President Joe Biden won by slim margins.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

White men as victims: Dangerous fantasy

The notion that white men are a persecuted minority isn't just ludicrous — it paves the way for racist violence

Salon

The Republican party is abandoning democracy. There can be no ‘politics as usual’

Republicans could not be clearer about their cynicism, yet some establishment Democrats act as if politics as usual is still an option

The Guardian - US

Security costs spike for campaigns as rules ease and threats rise

WASHINGTON — When a GOP candidate seeking to run against Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly released a recent ad featuring him in a Wild West shootout with Kelly and other prominent Democrats, members of both parties criticized the spot.

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Editorial: Ranchers are going bankrupt as meat prices soar. Blame the robber barons

Farmers and ranchers in rural Missouri and Illinois, it’s safe to say, are a pretty conservative group, firm in their longtime dedication to the deregulation and free market principles of the Republican Party. But now might be a good time for them to take a good look at their bank…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Kevin McDermott: Why I’m voting for an unfit demagogue in this year’s Republican Senate primary

Eric Greitens is the worst of the worst. He earns the title just by virtue of the credible sexual assault allegations that drove him out of the Missouri governor’s office in 2018.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Idaho House Republicans pass bills to move up election deadline, criminalize ballot collection

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho House on Monday passed two election bills — including one that would create a new deadline for the state’s more than 300,000 unaffiliated voters to participate in closed Republican primary elections.

Tribune News Service

Republicans mocked after marking Presidents Day by insulting Biden – and praising Nixon and Trump

Party’s message celebrates two presidents accused of high crimes and misdemeanours while in office

The Independent UK

Poll: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott up 7 points over Beto O’Rourke; AG Ken Paxton likely headed to runoff

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott again holds a single-digit lead over Democrat Beto O’Rourke in the Texas governor’s race, while scandal-plagued Attorney General Ken Paxton probably is headed for a GOP runoff, according to a Dallas Morning News-University of Texas at Tyler poll released Sunday.

Tribune News Service

The Trump 2022 endorsement tracker

The midterms present a big test for Donald Trump's post-presidential potency in GOP politics.

Axios

Minnesota GOP caucus data errors stir fraud claims and calls for audits

MINNEAPOLIS — Issues with data reported from this month's Republican precinct caucuses have some GOP candidates for governor crying foul — and even levying election fraud accusations against each other.

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NC lawmakers approved new maps. Now the courts will decide. What to watch for next

RALEIGH, N.C. —The fate of North Carolina's political districts is yet again in the hands of the judicial system. Over the next few days, a trio of state court judges will decide whether the legislature's newest set of maps is a good enough replacement for the previous ones, recently ruled…

Chicago Sun-Times

Ex-Illinois Gov. Edgar warns: To beat Gov. Pritzker, other Dems, GOP gov nominee should not ‘scare part of the state’

Edgar, a Republican, said on the Sun-Times "At the Table" talk show, "There’s no doubt Trump has a huge following in Downstate Illinois."

The Independent UK

Dems, GOP set inflation, COVID mandates as election themes

Senate Democrats and Republicans each want to flash election-year signals that they’re helping families struggling with rising costs and the two-year-old pandemic

Salon

Media ignores GOP rot to call Dems toxic

The centrists' scapegoating has already begun

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The Independent UK

Jim Hagedorn: Minnesota GOP congressman dies of kidney cancer

Republican ran for Congress three times and lost before winning in 2018

Roll Call

Capito leads GOP letter urging change to road-spending guidance

A GOP backer of the bipartisan infrastructure law asked DOT to rescind a memo she says defies the agreement's spirit.

Tribune News Service

GOP primary in Texas tests how far Trump loyalty should extend

WASHINGTON — Morgan Luttrell was a retired Navy SEAL with powerful connections in the Republican Party when he received a check from the leadership PAC of Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a prominent critic of former President Donald Trump.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: After Trump's 'big lie,' half of US lives in a fantasy world. This won't end well

For an embattled Donald Trump, the news that scrolled continuously this week across the bottom of America's most-watched cable news network — the Fox News Channel — could not have come at a more welcome time. The 45th — and hopeful 47th — president had been battered in mainstream outlets…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The GOP’s cancel culture warriors

Lauren Boebert, the congresswoman from Colorado, just blocked me on Twitter. This comes as no surprise, given that she follows in her MAGA mentor Donald Trump’s footsteps.

Salon

Texas GOP hopefuls back Trump's lies

“We’ve seen across the board, the Democrats have always cheated,” claims one Republican. (Fact check: Um, no)

Roll Call

Rep. Jim Hagedorn, two-term Minnesota Republican, dies at 59 - Roll Call

Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a two-term Minnesota Republican, has died at age 59. The outspoken conservative had kidney cancer.

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