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GOP's desperate abortion scramble

With abruptly scrubbed websites and "well, actually" op-eds, anti-abortion Republicans claim they never meant it

Salon

More state legislative seats are open this year than at any point since 2012

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Experts say a Trump-backed charity is pushing the boundaries of tax law

An NPR investigation has raised questions about whether the nonprofit Conservative Partnership Institute may be violating a legal ban on participating in political campaign activities.

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He worked under Schmidt and Trump. But effort to overturn 2020 election was a breaking point

A former federal prosecutor appointed by President Donald Trump is backing Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly over her Republican opponent, state Attorney General Derek Schmidt, citing Schmidt’s support of a lawsuit that attempted to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss.

Tribune News Service

Michael Hiltzik: GOP ratchets up the hypocrisy in opposing Biden's student debt plan

The hypocrisy meter has been stuck at the high end as Republicans and conservatives fill the airwaves and social media to decry President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness proposal.

Los Angeles Times

Jonathan Bernstein: Republican paranoia could cost the party in November

The terror that mainstream conservative Republican politicians have felt over the threat of being called insufficiently conservative — of being tagged as Republicans in Name Only — has made governing difficult for them since the 1990s. But whenever they were the minority party in Washington, they could correctly assume that…

Tribune News Service

The Unfolding by AM Homes review – jittery tale of Republican conspiracy

Set in the wake of Obama’s election, AM Homes’s satirical prehistory of the Maga movement is caught between two eras

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Kellyanne Conway to Republicans who want to dump Trump: ‘You first’

Ex-White House counselor said on Fox News that Republicans should stick with her former boss as Democrats gain ground

The Guardian - US

Minnesota Republicans carefully weigh abortion stance after Roe decision

MINNEAPOLIS — Top Minnesota Republican candidates are treading carefully on the issue of abortion since the fall of Roe v. Wade, trying to balance the interests of steadfast anti-abortion activists in their party while staking out a position palatable to a broader set of voters in November.

Tribune News Service

Texas education board moves to delay updates to social studies curriculum after conservative pushback

Opponents of the recommended changes, including Republican legislators, complained that they downplayed Texan and American exceptionalism and didn't present opposing views on the gay rights movement.

The Texas Tribune

Results in Alaska’s special US House race expected Wednesday when candidates are set to share a stage

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Candidates in the special U.S. House race are scheduled to meet in person for a forum in Anchorage Wednesday afternoon. The Alaska Division of Elections is set to release results of the election while the forum is ongoing, with all three contenders sharing the stage when results…

Tribune News Service

Is Dr. Oz done? Republicans still see a path to a comeback against Fetterman

WASHINGTON — Mehmet Oz remains behind John Fetterman in the race for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat 10 weeks until Election Day.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Michigan Democrats urge House probe of GOP lawmaker's role in election tabulator 'conspiracy'

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Democrats are asking Republican House Speaker Jason Wentworth to authorize an investigation into whether a GOP lawmaker "misused" government resources as part of an alleged "conspiracy" to obtain voting machines in the battleground state.

Tribune News Service

McConnell flip-flops on Dr Oz and now says he has ‘great confidence’ in GOP Senate hopeful

The Senate minority leader has previously said ‘candidate quality matters’

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Why are Californians moving to Texas, and what’s known about their impact?

“Don’t California my Texas” is a common refrain of Texans who don’t want an influx of Californians to influence the traditional Republican values of the state.

Ballotpedia

Delaware sees two U.S. House candidates this year, the fewest since 2014

The filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Delaware this year was July 12, 2022. Two candidates are running for Delaware’s At-Large U.S. House district, one Democrat and one Republican.

Ballotpedia

Massachusetts sees 19 U.S. House candidates this year, fewer than in 2020 and 2018

The filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Massachusetts this year was June 7, 2022. Nineteen candidates are running for Massachusetts’s nine U.S. House districts, including nine Democrats and ten Republicans. That’s 2.1 candidates per district, less than the three candidates per district in 2020 and the 3.44 in…

Orlando Sentinel

DeSantis allegation about Crist running mate called ‘a lie’

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Charlie Crist’s running mate Karla Hernandez-Mats should be disqualified from running for office, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday, after alleging the Miami teachers union chief protected a middle school teacher convicted of sexually abusing several students for years. The Crist camp called it “a lie.”

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The Independent UK

Trump-backed Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters blames economic woes on diversity hires in Federal Reserve

The Trump-endorsed venture capitalist is set to face off against Senator Mark Kelly in November

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mehmet Oz says never mind the people he pays to speak for him: ‘I can only speak to what I’m saying’

PHILADELPHIA — Mehmet Oz, the celebrity surgeon and Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, suggested Tuesday that voters should listen only to him — and not what his campaign has to say.

Miami Herald

DeSantis-suspended Broward school board member, challenger fight for votes in November runoff

MIAMI — The next chapter of the contentious relationship between the state’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the school board of Broward County, the Florida county with the most registered Democratic Party voters, revolves around one central question: Could and would the governor suspend a school board member twice?

Reason

Republicans Supported Abortion Bans for Decades. Now They've Gone Silent.

Some candidates, like Arizona's Blake Masters, have quietly removed abortion restriction initiatives from their campaign websites.

The Independent UK

Arizona GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters quietly scrubs abortion and false election fraud claims from website

Arizona Republican appears to attempt pivot to centre after winning GOP primary

Benzinga

This Trump Ally's Hard Stance Against Cannabis May Impact These Companies After Election Day

Cannabis is in the spotlight of many debates these days, especially in Pennsylvania where Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is running against Democratic nominee, Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

The Independent UK

Barnes' security costs become campaign issue in Senate run

Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, has logged more than 10 times as many hours of security as his predecessor, an issue that Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is raising in the hotly contested race

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