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Ousters, upsets halfway through 2022 primary election season
Read full article: Ousters, upsets halfway through 2022 primary election seasonMore than halfway through a tumultuous primary season, voters have rendered verdicts in a number of contests, many of which featured candidates arguing they best represented a continuation of policies favored by former President Donald Trump.
Britt wins tumultuous Alabama Senate race scrambled by Trump
Read full article: Britt wins tumultuous Alabama Senate race scrambled by TrumpKatie Britt has won the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama, defeating six-term Congressman Mo Brooks in a primary runoff after former President Donald Trump endorsed and then un-endorsed him.
After Georgia loss, House runoff gives Trump another chance
Read full article: After Georgia loss, House runoff gives Trump another chanceA U.S. House runoff in Georgia next week pits a former Democratic elected official who's been endorsed by Donald Trump against the son of a onetime Republican congressman.
Greene, McBath win US House races; Cuellar in tight runoff
Read full article: Greene, McBath win US House races; Cuellar in tight runoffOne of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress was facing his toughest primary challenge yet in Tuesday's runoff, while a staunch gun safety advocate ousted her House colleague in a fierce member-on-member congressional primary in suburban Atlanta.
Georgia GOP still seeking a fight over Trump election loss
Read full article: Georgia GOP still seeking a fight over Trump election lossIn a once reliably Republican Georgia congressional district that has turned into a swing district held by a Democrat, a GOP congressional convention on Saturday showed activists consumed by the unproven belief that Donald Trump had been cheated out of the 2020 presidential election.
Stacey Abrams credited for boosting Democrats in Georgia
Read full article: Stacey Abrams credited for boosting Democrats in GeorgiaAbrams, the onetime candidate for Georgia governor who has become perhaps the nation's leading voice on voting rights, is being credited for paving those inroads. “There’s a lot of work that’s gone into this, but Stacey really is the architect of what’s been built in Georgia,” said Dubose Porter, the former Georgia Democratic Party chairman and an Abrams mentor. The 2018 campaign marked a notable shift in Georgia Democrats’ overall approach. They’d do it by reshaping the electorate, by exciting the expanding universe of potentially Democratic voters: the youngest native white Georgians; whites from beyond Georgia; Black voters who cast ballots sporadically; Black voters moving to Georgia from other regions; and a growing Latino and Asian-American population. “We’ll take on Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Fair Fight, Stacey Abrams and all of them.”Trump himself was an accelerating variable in Georgia’s shift, pushing some white suburbanites toward Democrats.
Black Georgia Democrat makes pitch for Trump at RNC
Read full article: Black Georgia Democrat makes pitch for Trump at RNCIn this image from video, Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones speaks from Washington, during the first night of the Republican National Convention Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. Why is a lifelong Democrat speaking at the Republican National Convention? Polls show a close race in Georgia, where Democrats lean heavily on support from Black voters, adding to the pressure on Trump to peel voters away. Jones first announced his support for Trump this spring and all hell broke loose, he said Monday. Other Georgia Democrats quickly blasted Jones endorsement of Trump.
WHAT TO WATCH: After Biden's moment, it's Trump's prime time
Read full article: WHAT TO WATCH: After Biden's moment, it's Trump's prime timeThe convention runs through Thursday and includes a presidential speech from the White House South Lawn and a vice presidential address from Fort McHenry in Baltimore. Theyll hold a roll-call vote to renominate the president, but unlike the Democrats, it wont be a prime-time affair. While Democrats repeatedly mentioned the impact of the virus and hammered Trumps response to it, expect Republicans to defend the president on the issue but feature it less prominently. WHO WONT BE THEREThe Democratic convention featured every living Democratic president and the partys 2004 presidential nominee, John Kerry. ET on the GOP conventions social media channels and AT&T U-VERSE, Direct TV, Twitch, Youtube and Amazon Prime TV.