Another South Carolina Republican who occasionally has a rift with Trump, MP Nancy Mays, is also in a tight race for re-election. Mays did not vote to oust the former president, but she also refused to take part in congressional opposition to President Joe Biden’s victory. He confronts Katie Arrington, who was backed by Trump, who defeated the then Representative. Mark Sanford in the 2018 primary but lost the general election.
Nevada, Maine, North Dakota, and special constituencies in Texas’ 34th Congressional District are also on the menu Tuesday, with the toughest Republican battles vying for the ever-increasingly visible midterm general election. Democrats trying to maintain their narrow majority in the US House of Representatives and Senate. Nevada’s recent Democratic dominance is in a test of extremes in the fall, but Silver State Republicans have yet to arrange a handful of test-for-office, top-level positions and a chance to face Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. candidates and below the ballot that have embraced Trump’s lies about the 2020 election to varying degrees.
In the Senate by-elections, former Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who lost the 2018 election as governor, has the backing of Trump – along with Florida Gov. Ron DeSadis, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others. Conservatives with a look at the 2024 presidency race – after serving as co-chair of the former president’s 2020 campaign in the state and making baseless allegations of voter fraud after Trump’s loss there became apparent.
But Laxalt, whose late grandfather Paul Laxalt served as governor of Nevada and later as one of its U.S. senators for two terms, must first repel a belated accusation by political newcomer Sam Brown, a retired army captain. who received a Purple Heart after serious illness. burns in Afghanistan.
The race for Republican nominee for president and a November meeting with Democratic nominee Steve Sisolak is particularly iconic for the modern Republican Party – and all three candidates have aligned themselves with Trump, a key figure in his campaign. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, however, is the backing candidate for the presidency and the pioneering pioneer against former Sen. Dean Heller and Joey Gilbert, a lawyer and retired boxer.
In previous years, the race to fill the post of Republican Nevada Foreign Secretary Barbara Cegavske may have fallen short of the national political radar. However, in the wake of Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 results – an effort rejected by Cegavske – and bearing in mind the most recent, successful Republican attempt to limit ballot access, Democrats are renewing their focus on the offices they oversee. the elections.
Cisco Aguilar, a lawyer and former employee of the late Sen. Harry Reid, is running for the Democratic primary. The Republican frontrunner, former state MP Jim Marchand, filed an unsuccessful lawsuit after his defeat in the 2020 House race and said he would not have certified Biden’s victory in Nevada if he had been in the Chegabat post-election seat. .
Beneath the ballot, a handful of members of the state’s Democratic House are facing primary challenges. Dina Titus’s dispute over progressive Amy Villela was upheld by Sen. Bernie Saunders last week. The Vermont Independent won the Nevada House of Commons during the Democratic primary in 2020.
Down in Texas, the lights come on again Tuesday night, this time for special elections to end the term of former Democratic MP Filemon Vela in the soon-to-be 34th Congressional District. Vela’s resignation in late March to work for a law firm and lobby opened its headquarters in a district that Biden narrowly won in 2020, but it is poised to become more comfortable after the reshuffle takes effect in the November election. . Extraordinary elections are held below the existing limits of the district, with the winner serving until January.
Despite seemingly low stakes, Republicans have invested heavily in the race, hoping to give Mayra Flores – already a candidate in the general election for the new constituency – a lead in her upcoming race against Democrat Vicente Gonzalez over present of the 15th Congressional District. Gonzalez remains in office for the time being, so former county commissioner Cameron Dan Sanchez is the Democrats’ favorite on a four-party ballot, split equally between the parties, and it may be decided if no one wins a clear majority. in the second round of August.
If it did, Flores would become the first Mexican-born member of Congress – a piece of history that Republicans hope to use as a sign of the party’s growing base with Hispanic voters in South Texas before it clashed with him. Gonzalez.
In Maine, more intimate faces dominate the primary night landscape.
Former Republican Gov. Paul LePage – the man who once called himself “Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular” – is back on the ballot as he tries to win back his old job from Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, a long-standing politician. Both are running unopposed in their run-up to the November showdown.
The Republican field is more competitive in the 2nd District of the state Congress, where the candidate will face one of the most threatened incumbents of the Democratic Party, MP Jared Golden. Former MP Bruce Poliquin, who lost his place to Golden in 2018 after neither of them managed to secure the majority, is in the race and the race was decided by the Maine selection system. Poliquin, however, must first surpass Caratunk Selectwoman Liz Caruso.
There is less drama in North Dakota, where Republican Sen. John Howen is the big favorite in the qualifiers against Conservative activist Riley Coonze. Howen is expected to easily win re-election to the deep red state against Katrina Christiansen or Democratic candidate Michael Steele in November.
