States across the country are holding major primary elections Tuesday night. Much of the biggest action, as usual, is centered in Georgia, which is hosting high-profile Senate, gubernatorial and secretary of state races. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) is fighting for his political life after daring to not steal the 2020 election for former President Donald Trump.
In Alabama, scorned Trump devotee Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) is hoping that a last-minute push for his candidacy, based largely on his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, at least gets him into the Senate primary runoffs.
And in Texas, land commissioner George P. Bush is trying to oust Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), the embattled incumbent who won Trump’s endorsement thanks to his big lie advocacy.
Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won his GOP primary on Tuesday — and narrowly escaped having to participate in a runoff against Jody Hice, the man Trump had picked to defeat him.
Continue reading “Raffensperger Prevails: Trump-Endorsed Challenger Hice Goes Down In Defeat” →
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) is headed toward a runoff against fellow candidate for U.S. senator Katie Britt. Brooks, who aggressively aligned himself with Donald Trump in the days following the 2020 election, has seen his campaign for Senate stumble amid a tumultuous on-and-off alliance with the former president.
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Incumbent Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) emerged victorious in the Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, fending off an anemic challenge from former U.S. senator and Trump endorsee David Perdue.
Continue reading “Kemp Easily Demolishes Perdue As Trump’s Revenge Crusade Flops” →
I’ve said this before. It’s the only thing I can think to add to the conversation after yet another mass shooting.
The inability of the U.S. to do literally anything about the scourge of mass shootings is itself one of their greatest draws, the magnetic heart of their attraction. Mass shootings are fundamentally about losers, rage and the draw of total power. For a few minutes a school shooter holds the power of life and death. That power speaks for itself. But that’s only part of it. Nothing reinforces the power of the gun like the way a whole country remains in thrall to them. The gun — and all the fetishes and cultural baggage surrounding them — is the one totally unassailable, unchallengeable thing in American society.
Continue reading “The Cult of the Gun” →
President Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks at 8:15 p.m. ET on Tuesday in response to a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The President ordered all U.S. flags on federal property to be flown at half-staff until May 28 as a “mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence.”
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Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) is running in the Oklahoma GOP primary for U.S. Senate. To win, he’s taking aim at transgender people, and using his own kids in the process.
Continue reading “GOP Rep Offers Up Own Children In Anti-Trans Senate Campaign Ad” →
Just days after New York state was rocked by a devastating mass shooting in Buffalo where 10 people were killed by a white gunman, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) confirmed this afternoon that more than a dozen children were murdered in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Abbott Says 14 Children And One Teacher Killed In School Shooting” →
The crowded race for Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial nomination might thin out quite a bit by the end of the week.
Continue reading “Five Points On The Signature Forgery Scandal That’s Scrambling Michigan Politics” →
