Republicans

DeSantis Vows To Prioritize Hiring Enlisted Military Vets As Teachers Over People With “Shoehorn U” Ed Degrees

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is vowing to “keep plowing forward” with plans to allow military veterans to teach in Florida classrooms, suggesting Wednesday that vets may be better suited to teaching than an education major. “You give me somebody who has four years of experience as a Devil Dog over somebody who has four years of experience at …

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Kultist Kris Kobach Wins GOP Kansas AG Primary

Talking Points Memo reports: Anti-immigration hardliner, voter fraud alarmist and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach finally broke his losing streak on Tuesday night, winning the Republican primary for Kansas attorney general. Kobach defeated Kansas state Sen. Kellie Warren (R), his top rival, by a little over four points. Kobach’s victory follows a string of failed bids for Kansas …

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Suspected “Q” Of QAnon Finishes Last In AZ Primary

The Daily Dot reports: Ron Watkins, the man suspected by many of being behind the QAnon conspiracy theory, has lost his primary race for Congress in Arizona. Watkins is firmly in last place among seven other Republicans, only able to secure little more than 3% of the vote, which right now amounts to around 3,000 people. As the former administrator …

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Accused Rioter Refuses To Concede MI Gov Primary

This totally tracks: A Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is refusing to concede despite finishing in fourth place in Tuesday’s primary. Ryan Kelley received just 15.4 percent of the vote in the primary, which conservative pundit Tudor Dixon won with 40.6 percent of the vote. Dixon was endorsed by former President Donald …

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IL Gov Nominee Tries To Tamp Down Holocaust Furor

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: Republican gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey on Tuesday tried to minimize comments he made five years ago in which he said the Holocaust “doesn’t even compare” to abortion — remarks that have enflamed the Jewish community and the state’s Jewish governor, J.B. Pritzker. “In no way was I attempting to diminish the atrocities of the Holocaust and …

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GOP Flack Pleads Not Guilty In FL Ghost Candidate Plot

Orlando’s NBC affiliate reports: Political consultant James “Eric” Foglesong, accused of helping put a “ghost candidate” on a ballot to siphon off votes from a Democratic candidate in a state Senate race in Central Florida, pleaded not guilty to election finance-related charges Tuesday. Foglesong entered the plea during an arraignment hearing at the Seminole County Courthouse, his first court appearance. …

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AZ House Speaker Loses Primary After Jan. 6 Testimony

Axios reports: Rusty Bowers, the Arizona House speaker who rose to national prominence after testifying to the Jan. 6 committee about Donald Trump’s attempts to pressure him into overturning his state’s vote for Joe Biden, lost the Republican primary for an open state Senate seat, per AP. Former state Sen. David Farnsworth trounced Bowers for the Republican nomination in Legislative …

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DeVos-Backed Cultist Wins Michigan GOP Gov Primary

The Detroit Free Press reports: Tudor Dixon, the Muskegon County woman who won the Republican nomination for governor Tuesday, remains a relative unknown in Michigan. Dixon, who was endorsed Friday by former President Donald Trump, will be seeking to increase her profile sharply as she faces off against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the November election. Dixon, 45, of Norton …

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MI GOP Rep Who Voted To Impeach Loses Primary

NPR reports: Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer, who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump after the Capitol riot, has narrowly lost his Republican primary to Trump-backed conservative challenger John Gibbs. The loss for Meijer is a boost for Trump as he continues endorsing primary challenges to Republican Senate and House members who disagree with his false narrative that the 2020 …

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QAnon Oath Keeper Wins AZ Sec Of State Primary

NBC News reports: Mark Finchem, a prominent 2020 election denier and an Arizona state legislator, has won the Republican secretary of state primary, NBC News projects. With 99% percent of the expected vote in, Finchem, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, had 40% of the vote. If elected, Finchem would, as the official who oversees the state office …

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Blake Masters Wins Arizona GOP Senate Primary

Yahoo News reports: Blake Masters, an ultra-MAGA candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the marquee GOP Senate primary in Arizona Tuesday night, setting up a general-election showdown with his more traditional Democratic rival that will test whether the way to win a key swing state in 2022 is by channeling the animosities of the far right — or …

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Eric Schmitt Wins Missouri GOP Senate Primary

The Missouri Independent reports: Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt beat back a crowded field of opponents Tuesday night to secure the Republican nomination for Missouri’s open U.S. Senate seat. With most precincts reporting, Schmitt led with 45% of the vote, compared to 22% for U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler and 19% for disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens. At Greitens’ election night …

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Republican Senators Praise Pelosi For Taiwan Visit

The Huffington Post reports: More than half of the 50 Republicans in the Senate ― including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell (R-Ky.) and key foreign policy figures Sens. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) ― issued a joint statement on Pelosi’s trip soon after she landed on the island. Saying the California Democrat had their “support,” the lawmakers wrote: …

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Lying KS Abortion Vote Texts Traced To Ex-GOP Rep

The Washington Post reports: The text messages arrived on Monday, the day before Kansans were set to vote on an amendment that would excise abortion protections from their state constitution. The text claimed that approving that measure, which could allow the Republican-controlled legislature to outlaw abortion, would safeguard “choice.” The gambit was all the more alarming to abortion rights advocates …

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Georgians May Now Claim Embryos As Dependents

NBC News reports: Georgia residents can now claim embryos as dependents on their state taxes, the state’s revenue department announced Monday. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that “Georgia’s prohibition on abortions after detectable human heartbeat is rational.” The state’s Living Infants and Fairness Equality (LIFE) Act “defines a ‘natural person’ as ‘any human being including an …

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Trump Endorses “ERIC” On Eve On MO Senate Primary

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump injected some last-minute confusion ahead of Missouri’s Senate primary on Tuesday by endorsing “ERIC” in a Monday night statement. Eric who? Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens? State Attorney General Eric Schmitt? Or maybe even little-known Eric McElroy? When reached for comment, Trump’s team did not provide any clarity, saying only that the “endorsement …

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Kansans Get Lying Texts About Today’s Abortion Vote

The Kansas City Star reports: An anonymous group is sending a misleading text to Kansas voters telling them to “vote yes” in order to protect choice. “Women in KS are losing their choice on reproductive rights. Voting YES on the amendment will give women a choice. Vote YES to protect women’s health.” The message went to voters across the state, …

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IL Gov Nominee: Abortion Is Worse Than The Holocaust

The Jewish Forward reports: Darren Bailey, the Republican nominee for Illinois governor, said in a video posted to Facebook in 2017 that the Holocaust “doesn’t even compare” to abortion on the scale of human atrocities. “I believe that abortion is one of the greatest atrocities of our day and I believe it’s one of the greatest atrocities probably forever,” Bailey …

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Cultist Arizona AG Debunks Claims Of “Dead Voters”

The Arizona Mirror reports: The Arizona Senate’s partisan “audit” last year claimed 282 dead voters cast a ballot in the 2020 general election in Maricopa County, but Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said only one of those was genuine, according to a letter he sent to the Senate on Monday. “Our agents investigated all individuals that Cyber Ninjas reported as …

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Twisted Sister Rocker Trashes “Fascist” QAnon Arizona Gov Candidate For Using His “Pro-Choice” 80s Hit Song

The New York Daily News reports: You’ve got it twisted, sister. Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider spent his weekend lashing out at supporters of right-wing Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake after the campaign for the GOP frontrunner used lyrics from his 1984 song “We’re Not Gonna Take It” to bolster her run. In addition to beginning rallies with that tune, …

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