Trump ousts another insider in South Carolina primary
The former president settled another political result in South Carolina, as state lawmaker Russell Fry, who was ratified by Trump, diligently defeated lawmaker Tom Rice in the Republican primary in PD. Rice is the last Republican to leave the party after breaking with former President Donald Trump in the wake of the US Capitol uprising on January 6, 2021. Rice was one of 10 Republicans who voted for Trump. He later became one of 35 Republicans who voted to set up an independent commission to investigate the Capitol invasion, which was eventually blocked by Senate Republicans. Rice’s removal from Fry underscores the political danger faced by many Republicans who have outgrown Trump. Rice, a conservative Republican who was first elected in 2012, faced death threats, reprimands from his state party and attacks by Trump himself. Supporting Fry in February, Trump said in a statement that Rice was “the coward who left his voters to retreat to Nancy Pelosi and the Radical Left” and “must be ousted from power.” Rice responded that Trump was an “aspiring tyrant” who was “consumed by evil.”
… But another Trump critic survives his revenge attempt
While Rice was on the block, another Republican in the House of Representatives, MP Nancy Mace, survived little of a primary challenge fueled by Trump by former state MP Katie Arrington in her Lowcountry constituency.
A key difference between the South Carolina Republican who lost Tuesday’s primary and the one who survived: Rice voted in favor of Trump’s ouster. Mace did not.
However, he had sharply criticized Trump in the aftermath of the uprising of January 6, 2021 in the US Capitol. “His entire legacy disappeared yesterday,” she told Trump on CNN the next day.
Since then, Mace has stuck to the right. The month after the uprising, he chose to fight on Twitter with New York MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, incorrectly characterizing the comments of the Democratic Party of New York regarding the threat posed by the rioters.
Trump backed Arrington. But Mays also had a high-profile cover in South Carolina, with former Gov. Nicky Haley, Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, backing her and appearing in commercials.
Mays, winning Tuesday’s primary, joins a small group of Republicans who have survived Trump’s revenge efforts. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger both won last month’s Trump-backed primaries.
Defender Wins GOP Qualifying Election for Nevada’s Supreme Electoral Bureau
Jim Marchand, a former state lawmaker and a leading supporter of Trump’s lies about widespread electoral fraud, won the Republican primary for the Nevada Secretary of State on Tuesday – adding Silver State to the growing list of those elections are set to take place for the electoral mechanism in view of the 2024 presidential race. Marchant is seeking to replace Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, a Republican who has repeatedly said there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election but who is barred from running for re-election. Nevada is a presidential battlefield state. President Joe Biden defeated Trump there by just 2.4 percentage points in 2020 and the state is ready to play a crucial role again in 2024, when Republicans will try to turn their gains in recent years among Latin voters into victories. Nevada is also a potentially pivotal state in the November midterm elections. Republicans have nominated two Trump-nominated candidates for two major races: Former Attorney General Adam Laxalt, whose grandfather Paul Laxalt was a former governor, senator, and a high-profile figure in Nevada politics. against Democratic Sen. Kathryn Cortez Masto. And Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo walked out of the Republican race to challenge Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, who is seeking a second term.
Democrats give up race for House of Representatives in heavily latino area of Texas
Democrat Dan Sanchez’s nomination in Republican Mayra Flores for a Democratic primary in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, on Tuesday offered another look at GOP gains among Latin voters and the Democrats’ gap in enthusiasm. interim period. electoral approach. As of early Wednesday morning, Flores had eliminated three other candidates in the low-key contest, including Democrat Dan Sanchez, by more than 50 percent of the vote, allowing her to avoid a run-off. The seat was evacuated when former Democratic MP Philemon Vela resigned in March to become a lobbyist. Vela’s decision to release him early seems to have proved costly for his party in the short term, as it would further limit the majority of Democrats in Congress. But it could also cause long-term damage to the position of Democrats in South Texas: Flores is already ready to face Republican MP Vicente Gonzalez, who is currently representing a neighboring county, in the redesigned 34th District in November. The new constituency that was drawn is more favorable to Democrats than Flores was to run in Tuesday’s snap election, but it would have the advantage of the status quo. For Republicans, Flores’ victory would be another sign that the party is invading Latin voters in the Rio Grande Valley. If the GOP can repeat this trend, albeit in part, in other states – particularly Arizona and Nevada, two presidential battlefield states with Democratic senators will be re-elected this fall and areas like Orange County, California, where inhabits a number of competing Parliamentary tribes – would fundamentally change the political map of the nation.
Maine went on to play two key games
Former Maine bomber Paul LePage is set to face Republican Gov. Janet Mills in a landslide victory last Tuesday in a landslide victory over neither side. Former Republican MP Bruce Poliquin, meanwhile, has survived a contest with a conservative activist and is now set to run for his former congressional district in a rematch of a 2018 fierce race against Democratic Jared. Maine uses a ranking voting system. In 2018, Poliquin actually received more first place votes than Golden. But after the ranking system eliminated third-party candidates, Golden prevailed. But Trump won the district in 2020, giving Republicans hope they could win New England seat again in November. In North Dakota, meanwhile, Republicans have nominated Sen. John Houven for a third term, which he is widely expected to win in November.
