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It’s primary day in five states

Welcome to the Tuesday, May 17, Brew.

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Trump’s sway gets blurred in 3-way, down-to-wire Senate race

Pennsylvania is at the heart of a dramatic midterm primary election race. On the Republican side there is a former Wall Street executive vying with a celebrity physician and a surging conservative firebrand. Their likely rival is a Democrat recovering from a stroke.

Tribune News Service

Seven Missourian candidates complete Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey since May 1

Below are a selection of responses from the candaidates who filled out Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey since May 1. To read each candidate’s full responses, click their name at the bottom of the article.

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Four candidates are running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Arkansas

Four candidates — Jake Bequette, Heath Loftis, Jan Morgan, and incumbent John Boozman — are running in the Republican primary on May 24, 2022, for U.S. Senate in Arkansas. Boozman, Bequette, and Morgan have led in polling and fundraising.

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Oz, Mastriano extend leads in Pa.'s Republican primaries for US Senate, governor, new Emerson College poll says

In a poll conducted over the weekend of a relatively large sample of very likely Republican primary voters, former President Donald Trump's endorsed candidates for two of the state's biggest races — Dr. Mehmet Oz for U.S. Senate and Doug Mastriano for governor — were leading the pack.

Tribune News Service

93 statewide measures certified (so far)

Welcome to the Monday, May 16, Brew.

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Top Senate Republican meets Zelenskiy, Russia says U.S. involvement dangerous

Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the U.S. Senate, paid an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Saturday with other Republican senators and met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for talks.

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Primaries spotlight coming battles over state supreme courts

Upcoming primary elections for state supreme court seats in North Carolina and Arkansas are putting the spotlight on how such races across the U.S. have grown in importance in recent years and led to high-dollar, partisan battles for control

The Independent UK

Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 22 (May 12, 2022)

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Heart of the Primaries 2022, Democrats-Issue 22 (May 12, 2022)

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More results from Tuesday’s primaries

Welcome to the Thursday, May 12, Brew.

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Protesters ‘promise to stay in the streets’ after failed Senate effort to codify abortion rights

Chicago protesters continue to demonstrate in the wake of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion potentially overturning Roe v. Wade.

Chicago Sun-Times

Saturday’s Texas turnout – 7.5%

Welcome to the Wednesday, May 11, Brew.

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Editorial: Complaining and whining isn't a winning strategy, as Democrats learn the hard way

It wasn’t so long ago when Missouri was a purple state, up for grabs by whichever party did the best job capturing voters’ imaginations. The state was split down the middle politically as recently as 2000, and even in 2016 Democrats held a U.S. Senate seat and the offices of…

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Editorial: Alex Padilla for US Senate

When Gov. Gavin Newsom named then-California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to fill Kamala Harris’ seat in the U.S. Senate after she was elected vice president, it was the right choice — and not only because it was high time that this state, where 39% of residents are Latino, had…

Tribune News Service

Trump takes the stage in Pa., with mixed review of Dr. Oz

GREENSBURG, Pa. – Former President Donald Trump was welcomed on Friday to western Pennsylvania by buckets of rain.

Ballotpedia

ICYMI: Top stories of the week

On Tuesday, voters in Indiana and Ohio went to the polls and kicked off the May/June primary bonanza (60% of this year’s statewide primaries occur in May and June!). Some of the biggest storylines of the night:

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The next state primaries

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GOP works to get out the vote after calling elections rigged

Republicans who embraced discredited conspiracy theories about Donald Trump's 2020 defeat and preached skepticism about elections now need their supporters to trust the system enough to vote for them

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Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 21 (May 5, 2022)

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The Independent UK

A second JD Vance book falls through, publisher says

A second book by “Hillbilly Elegy” author and U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance will not be released as planned by an imprint of HarperCollins, the publisher tells The Associated Press

Al Jazeera

US Senate will vote on abortion bill next week, Schumer says

Senate majority leader says vote on bill asserting legality of abortion will show where Republicans stand on the issue.

Tribune News Service

Pa. Senate poll: John Fetterman takes commanding lead among Dems; Dr. Oz and David McCormick in tight battle for GOP top spot

While Republicans remain split over their own candidates, more than half of all the registered Democratic voters who were surveyed by Franklin and Marshall College in late April said they plan to vote for John Fetterman in the U.S. Senate primary, according to a poll released Thursday.

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Vance wins Ohio Senate Republican primary

J.D. Vance defeated six other candidates in the May 3 Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Ohio, including Matt Dolan, Mike Gibbons, Josh Mandel, and Jane Timken. Vance received 31.3% of the vote, while Mandel, Dolan, Gibbons, and Timken received 24.3%, 21.9%, 12%, and 6.6%, respectively. Incumbent Rob Portman (R), who was first elected in…

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Looking back at the results of Tuesday’s battleground primaries

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