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A former educator from the Mat-Su announced Wednesday that she's making a late run for Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, complicating a race that so far featured incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski and Trump-endorsed challenger Kelly Tshibaka. Pat Chesbro, a former teacher, principal, superintendent and college instructor, said she made up her mind to run Sunday, influenced in part by last week's draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that would strip the rights to abortion granted by the Roe v. Wade decision. "I'm terrified that I'm going to let people down," Chesbro said. But, she added: "I think people need a...

As George P. Bush was ramping up his runoff campaign in the Republican attorney general’s race in March, he jumped on a Fox Business Network interview to advocate for stricter border security, pledging to build “miles and miles” of border wall to combat the federal government’s “inactivity.” Stuart Varney, the host conducting the interview, was skeptical. “Sir, I always think of the Bush family as kind of the moderate wing of the Republican Party,” he said. “And now you want to finish Trump’s wall. Is that accurate?” The interaction is emblematic of a key obstacle for Bush in his race...

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North Carolina Senate - Republican Primary Budd 43, McCrory 16, Walker 12 Budd +27 North Carolina Senate - Budd vs. Beasley Budd 48, Beasley 41 Budd +7 North Carolina Senate - McCrory vs. Beasley Beasley 44, McCrory 39 Beasley +5

Ada County Clerk Phil McGrane is currently leading his 3-way GOP primary by a small margin according to recent polls from a few weeks ago (60% of voters were still undecided). Election day is rapidly approaching in Idaho on May 17th. Idaho is a solidly red state. But like in other red states Democrats are working to put imposters in office who support a liberal agenda. Phil McGrane solicited, accepted, and now defends taking “Zuckerbucks” that were used to benefit Democrats and stop Trump in 2020. There were two documentaries recently that explain how Zuckerbucks helped Democrats steal the 2020...

That the North Carolina Republican party establishment would unite behind Congressman Ted Budd is unexpectedly revealing. While never a scourge of the big boys on Hillsborough Street, neither was Ted Budd the obvious choice for electability-minded GOP elites. After all, the only Republican governor of North Carolina in the last 30 years, Pat McCrory, was also running in the primary. If McCrory cannot command the support of people who were elated when his victory brought them a precious four years of one-party control, something very radical has transformed the NCGOP. snip Despite their similarities, Ted Budd has never been a...

John Lassiter, a close friend and informal adviser of McCrory who began working with him in Charlotte government in the mid-1980s, remains hopeful about McCrory’s chances Tuesday. He said he expected voters would “wake up” at the end of the campaign, and decide to vote for the person they supported previously. “It’s really unfair,” Lassiter said. “He is very conservative, particularly on fiscal matters and the role of government. At his core, his politics are pretty tried and true, and he has stuck to those despite the trade winds that come every cycle.” Lassiter, whom McCrory tapped to oversee and...

In the Senate, Hunt won a three-candidate race Tuesday for the GOP nomination in a district spanning five counties. As a Democrat, Hunt served 14 years in the House of Delegates before losing in the 2016 general election for a U.S. House seat. He also lost a 2018 nonpartisan race for an unexpired term on the state Supreme Court. Now as a Republican, Hunt defeated former Delegate Joshua Higginbotham and Mark Mitchem by a double-digit margin Tuesday. A fourth GOP candidate, Andrea Garrett Kiessling, was disqualified from running after a successful challenge to her residency. Kiessling had been promoted by...

Some Wyoming Democrats are switching parties to register as Republicans for the upcoming primary election, according to a longtime county clerk, prompting her to urge voters to practice their own form of election integrity. Incumbent U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, who was censured by her own party in February, is being challenged in the Republican primary election for Wyoming’s lone U.S. House seat by Cheyenne attorney Harriet Hageman and others. Julie Freese, Fremont County’s clerk for 28 years, said she is hearing on-the-ground commentary from traditional Democrats saying they’re registering as Republicans solely to vote for Cheney in the Republican primary....

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) tore into his onetime friend and political ally Donald Trump on Wednesday after Trump attacked him for campaigning for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Trump, who has endorsed Kemp’s primary opponent former Senator David Perdue (R-GA) in the primary, released a statement earlier Wednesday slamming Christie and two sitting GOP governors. Trump wrote: Today, the worst “election integrity” Governor in the country, Brian Kemp, loaded the great state of Georgia up with RINOs. That’s right, he had them all. Chris Christie, Doug Ducey from Arizona, and Pete Ricketts from Nebraska. That tells you all...

On April 2nd, a historic wave of pro-Trump candidates won at the Michigan nominating convention. The Michigan Republican Party delegates nominated Kristina Karamo for Secretary of State and Matt DePerno for Attorney General. Both were Trump-endorsed, and both were loudly talking about the obvious 2020 voter fraud. Now both are being blackballed by the NeverTrump Michigan establishment. Kristina Karamo has called every elected Republican and virtually none of them will even call her back. For Matt DePerno, it’s even worse. Fellow Republicans Michigan Senate Majority Leader-presumptive Aric Nesbitt won’t return his calls, neither will Michigan House Speaker Jason Wentworth. When...

With Republican primaries in West Virginia and Nebraska underway, Michael Steele, Chuck Todd, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Mark Murray, and Vaughn Hillyard join Andrea Mitchell to discuss this latest test of Trump’s influence over the Republican Party through his endorsements. “It doesn't matter whether they win or lose. He doesn't like the stain of a loss, but even a loss is a win for him,” says Steele. “He's got these candidates groveling to him. You know, Mooney crosses state lines just to be on the stage with Donald Trump in Pennsylvania,” Steele explains. “The establishment still has no clue what to...

Next Tuesday there are primaries in Idaho, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Oregon. The big races to watch are: Idaho governor's race - Trump endorsed Lt. Governor McGeacham over incumbent governor Little Pennsylvania Senate and governor races - Trump endorsed Oz for Senate, no endorsement for governor but Doug Mastriano seems to be the man to beat and the Establishment is worried about him winning the nomination North Carolina Senate - Trump endorsed Ted Budd and he's way ahead in the polls

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Republican Congressman Tom Reed (NY) on Tuesday announced his resignation from Congress following sexual misconduct accusations. Punchbowl News first reported on Tom Reed’s resignation.

Arkansas Senate candidate Jake Bequette’s name has been printed incorrectly on thousands of ballots and state election officials are refusing to correct it. The ballots in several counties say “Jack Bequette” instead of “Jake Bequette.” Bequette has now released audio of his campaign calling election officials to have the issue corrected — and being told that they will not fix it because voting has already started. Speaking to the Gateway Pundit, Bequette said that the ballot issue is part of the “establishment political machine” trying to “steal another election.” “The voter fraud that occurred in the 2020 election was absolutely...

Some of us still haven’t put the 2020 elections to bed even as early voting has started for the 2022 Primary Elections. No doubt you’ve seen the mailers, TV ads and phone calls from candidates, but we don’t hear much buzz among voters. Are they perhaps worn out with politics and politicians or just keeping their politics on the down-low? We don’t have presidential or gubernatorial primaries this year but there are important races, including contested primaries for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Senator Burr’s retirement, two of the seven North Carolina Supreme Court seats, four of the...

When you’ve lost Lisa Murkowski on abortion rights … To be fair, though, Chuck Schumer all but guaranteed that outcome. In fact, he went out of his way to get it, as we’ll see: Why would Murkowski object to a “Roe codification bill”? Murkowski and Susan Collins both have consistently supported not just the Supreme Court decision in Roe but also the one in Casey. The answer to this, of course, is that Schumer’s bill doesn’t “codify Roe,” but instead expands abortion access to the limit of gestation, right up to the moment of birth. It also would force providers...

Go vote! Strike a blow for Liberty! Trump endorsed Charles Herbster in Nebraska and Alex Mooney in West Virginia.

Kathy Barnette has been outspent 358-to-1 on TV in Pennsylvania’s GOP primary for the Senate. She hasn’t run for statewide office before. She doesn’t have former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. But the ultra-MAGA commentator is surging in the polls anyway in the final weeks of one of the most expensive and closely watched races in the country. Barnette’s unlikely — and, to some, unbelievable — rise has turned heads in political circles across the state because it defies political logic. Just two years ago, she lost a House bid in the Philadelphia suburbs by a wide margin. This time around,...