Republicans

Thune Drubs QAnon Riot Attendee In Senate Primary

The Argus Leader reports: South Dakota Sen. John Thune dispatched his two primary contenders Tuesday with relative ease. Facing his first primary challenge since winning office in 1996, Thune was winning with 73% of the vote as of 10:50 p.m.. Bruce Whalen, had 20% while Mark Mowry had 7%. Both Whalen, 60, and Mowry, 65, contended that former President Donald …

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Shitposting DeSantis Spox Registers As Foreign Agent

The Washington Post reports: A spokeswoman for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) this week registered as a foreign agent of a former president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, belatedly detailing work she performed for the politician between 2018 and 2020. The spokeswoman, Christina Pushaw, made the disclosure following contact from the Justice Department, according to her attorney, Michael Sherwin. She began …

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Carl Paladino Denies Posting Mass Shooting False Flag Claims: “I Don’t Even Know How To Post On Facebook”

The Buffalo News reports: A post on congressional candidate Carl P. Paladino’s Facebook page repeated conspiracy theories about the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas, linking them to the kind of “false flag” ideas that claim government involvement in similar tragedies. Paladino, who has been accused of racism for a history of inflammatory statements, denied any knowledge of the …

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POLL: Greitens +6 In Missouri GOP Senate Primary

The Hill reports: Disgraced former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens leads the field of Republicans vying for the party’s nomination to succeed retiring Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), according to a new poll from The Hill and Emerson College. The poll of 1,000 likely GOP primary voters in Missouri found Greitens notching 26 percent support ahead of the Aug. 2 nominating contest. …

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QAnon-Backed Cultist Loses New Jersey House Primary

The right wing New Jersey Globe reports: The New Jersey Globe projects that Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) has won the Republican primary in the 4th congressional district against several challengers, including Roger Stone-backed podcaster Mike Crispi. As of 10:53 p.m., Smith had 58% of the vote to Crispi’s 37%. After former President Donald Trump angrily called for a primary challenger …

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Cultist Covidiot Creamed In New Jersey House Primary

The New Jersey Advance reports: Businessman Bob Healey defeated gym owner Ian Smith to win the Republican nomination Tuesday to take on two-term Democratic Rep. Andy Kim this fall in New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District, according to a projection from the Associated Press. The AP called the race around midnight with 83% of the votes counted. Healey was up by …

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Cultist Covidiot Wins South Dakota GOP Gov Primary

The Associated Press reports: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who has elevated her national prominence through a hands-off approach to pandemic restrictions, won the Republican primary on Tuesday against a former legislative leader who accused her of using the office to mount a 2024 White House bid. The first-term governor’s primary win against former South Dakota House Speaker Steve Haugaard …

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AUDIT: Florida Undercounted COVID Cases And Deaths

Miami’s ABC News affiliate reports: A review of Florida’s COVID-19 case and mortality statistics produced by the state’s Auditor General found the amount of cases and deaths reported by the Department of Health were underreported due to data collection issues. The report, published on June 1, comes after a Florida Dept. of Health Office of Inspector General investigation concluded claims …

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MTG Falls For Parody Tweet By “Dr. Lyle P. Lysol”

Raw Story reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., expressed her outrage on Monday after a Twitter censored a satirist who propagated a right-wing narrative that most pregnant women who took Pfizer’s vaccine in a clinical trial lost their babies as a result of getting the jab. One user pointed out that Dr. Lysol’s was a parody account whose profile picture …

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Sen. Rick Scott Doubles Down On Plan To Raise Taxes: “I’d Like To Apologize To Absolutely Nobody” [VIDEO]

Florida Politics reports: Sen. Rick Scott is doubling down on his “11-point plan to rescue America,” paying homage to a UFC fighter along the way. In a video accompanying “new additions and updates” as part of a “Rescue America 2.0,” Scott quotes Conor McGregor in signaling defiance to the critics of the proposal. “President (Joe) Biden, Chuck Schumer, and even …

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Carl Paladino Calls Recent Mass Shootings False Flags

Media Matters reports: Carl Paladino, who announced that he’s running for Congress, previously shared a post on Facebook which pushed conspiracy theories about the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. The Facebook post portrayed the tragedies as false flag attacks meant to help Democrats “revoke the 2nd amendment and take away guns” and claimed “the Texas …

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Dem CO Voters Act To Thwart Boebert In GOP Primary

Colorado Public Radio reports: Thousands of voters have recently left the Democratic Party in Western Colorado — some as part of a grassroots effort to defeat Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert in her upcoming primary election. Among them is Steven Hallenborg of Montrose. “Well, I’m a lifelong Democrat, and now I’m unaffiliated,” he said. Because he changed his affiliation, he now …

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44% Of Republicans Say Mass Shootings Are Something We All Just “Have To Accept As Part Of A Free Society”

Newsweek reports: In the wake of shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, a new poll conducted by CBS News and YouGov surveyed Americans about their thoughts on guns and gun control. One question, in particular, asked respondents if they felt that mass shootings are an unavoidable by-product of a “free society” or if they believed the issue could …

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GOP Rep: I Need My AR-15 To Kill Raccoons [VIDEO]

Somehow I missed this one the other day: Please, think of the children chickens. At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, Republican Rep. Ken Buck (Colo.) dismissed a proposal to regulate AR-style rifles, the weapon of choice for mass shooters, as “small-minded.” Why? Because without them, Buck claimed, ranchers would be completely defenseless against varmint. “Blaming the gun …

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Texas AG Opens Investigation Into Twitter’s Bot Claims

Bloomberg News reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he opened an investigation of Twitter, claiming the social media platform may be misleading people with false reporting of its bot accounts, violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The Republican attorney general announced the probe the same day Twitter would-be buyer, billionaire Elon Musk, threatened to pull out of his …

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Anti-LGBTQ Racist Carl Paladino Launches House Bid

Buffalo’s WRFA reports: Buffalo businessman and one-time candidate for governor, Carl Paladino, has entered the race for the 23rd Congressional District. The Republican announced on Twitter that he has enough petitions to qualify for the Republican and Conservative lines in addition to having $500,000 cash on hand for the campaign. Paladino announced on Friday he’d run if Congressman Chris Jacobs …

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Major Abbott Donors Demand Gun Reform In TX Ad

The Texas Tribune reports: Major Republican donors, including some that have contributed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaigns, joined other conservative Texans in signing an open letter supporting congressional action to increase gun restrictions in response to the mass shooting in Uvalde that left 19 children and two teachers dead last week. The letter, which ran as a full-page ad in …

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SCOTUS Rejects Law License Appeal By McCloskeys

USA Today reports: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a St. Louis couple potentially facing indefinite suspension of their law licenses after they waved guns at a racial justice protest outside their home in 2020. Mark McCloskey, a personal injury attorney and Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri, and his wife Patricia McCloskey drew national …

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TX Bill Would Ban Minors From Attending Drag Shows

From Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton: The events of this past weekend were horrifying and show a disturbing trend in which perverted adults are obsessed with sexualizing young children. As a father of two young children, I would never take my children to a drag show and I know Speaker Dade Phelan and the rest of my Republican colleagues wouldn’t …

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MAGA World Fires Shot At Scott In Junior Matchup Poll

Mediaite reports: Axios’ Jonathan Swan tweeted a slide from pollster Tony Fabrizio’s presentation showing that in a theoretical matchup between Trump, Jr. and the sitting senator, the son of former President Donald Trump has a significant lead, 56% to 32%. Lest we forget that Rick Scott put forth an 11-point plan to “rescue America” which includes, among other things, a …

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