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Republican Rancher Takes Down a Trump-backed Extremist in Idaho’s Gubernatorial Primary
by Alex Henderson
May 20, 2022

Extract:
(Alternet) And in Idaho, the former president suffered a major disappointment when Idaho Gov. Brad Little defeated Trump-backed challenger Janice McGeachin, Idaho’s far-right lieutenant governor, by 21%.

One of McGeachin’s outspoken critics in Idaho is Jennifer Ellis, a rancher and conservative Republican who heads the political action committee Take Back Idaho.

During an interview with Politico published on May 20, Ellis discussed her group’s activities.

Ellis, Politico’s Ryan Lizza notes, founded Take Back Idaho in 2021 to “beat back the growing tide of extremist candidates” in her state. She formed the group, Lizza notes, after she “noticed a dramatic shift within the Republican Party.”
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The Take Back Idaho founder told Politico, “I think there are so many bigger concerns than who Trump wants. In a state like ours, we’ve got a lot of challenges. We’ve got drought. We’ve got wildfire season coming. We have got infrastructure that needs to be rebuilt. I mean, we have real-world problems, not political problems. And we need grownups to fix them. And that’s the folks that we tried to get elected. So, I think it’s a waning influence over time.”
Source: https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/this-r ... l-primary/
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Summer Lee Wins Pennsylvania House Primary in Triumph for the Squad
by Andrew Solender
May 20, 2022

Introduction:
(Axios) Pennsylvania state Rep. Summer Lee has emerged victorious in the Democratic primary for an open U.S. House seat in Pennsylvania, according to the Associated Press.

Why it matters: The result marks another win for progressives this week in a pitched nationwide battle with more establishment Democrats for ideological control of the party.
  • More accutely, it sets the stage for the progressive "Squad" in Congress to grow its ranks, and thus its power within the House Democratic Caucus.
Driving the news: As of Friday, Lee had 41.8% of the vote to establishment-backed attorney Steve Irwin's 41.1%, according to the Pennsylvania secretary of state.
  • The race was tight enough that votes had to be counted for three days after primary day before the election was called by the AP.
Read more here (including much that is duplicative of what has already been posted in this thread concerning other races):https://www.axios.com/2022/05/20/summer ... se-primary
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New York judge approves congressional map, throwing Democrats into disarray
Source: Reuters

May 21 (Reuters) - A New York judge approved a new congressional map that pits two veteran Democratic incumbents against one another and boosts Republican odds of capturing more seats in November's midterm elections, further endangering Democrats' fragile U.S. House majority.

Justice Patrick McAllister, a judge in rural Steuben County, signed off on the map just before midnight on Friday, weeks after New York's top court ruled that the redistricting plan passed by the Democratic-controlled legislature was unconstitutionally manipulated to benefit the party.

The Democratic map would likely have given the party control of 22 of the state's 26 congressional seats this fall, serving to counterbalance similarly partisan maps passed in Republican-dominated states such as Florida, Georgia and Texas.

Republicans need to flip only five seats in November to win a majority in the House, which would enable them to block much of President Joe Biden's agenda.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-yo ... 022-05-21/
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Some Republicans are Now Fleeing from Trump's Election Fraud Claims
by Tom Boggioni
May 22, 2022

Introduction:
(Alternet) By and large, Republicans are ignoring Donald Trump's claims that there is election fraud in Pennsylvania that is preventing Dr. Mehmet Oz from claiming victory over David McCormick and Politico's David Siders is reporting that GOP lawmakers are increasingly moving on from echoing Trump's belief that every election that doesn't go there way is tainted.

As it stands now, Pennsylvania Republicans are furious with Trump after he criticized the fact that the GOP Senate primary has no clear winner yet by proclaiming on Truth Social, "The Pennsylvania Oz race is ridiculous. How long does it take to count votes. France, same day all paper, had VERIFIED numbers in evening. U.S. is a laughingstock on Elections. Stop FINDING VOTES in PENNSYLVANIA! RIGGED?”

As Siders notes, Trump's raving is a voice in the wilderness as lawmakers are not taking up his latest conspiracy theory and are finding his complaints about election tampering are growing old and stale.

"Donald Trump has been lying about voter fraud for so long that his impugning of yet another election seemed almost inevitable. What was more revealing was that, for the first time, Republicans appeared not to be listening," Siders wrote before adding, "Trump’s earliest effort to graft his 2020 complaints onto ballot counting in a midterm primary is falling flat. MAGA hard-liners who’ve lost primaries in other states in recent weeks have not contested the results. And when the primary calendar turns to Georgia on Tuesday, Trump’s election conspiracy crusade is likely to take another hit."

According to Christopher Nicholas, a Pennsylvania campaign consultant, "No one’s paying any attention to it.”
Read more here: https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/trump-election-fraud/

caltrek's comments: This story would be more convincing had it not been for the nomination of Doug Mastriano as the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania. Still, I am not one to pretend that I understand how Republican voters think. Maybe they really are finally starting to realize that Trump is simply claiming fraud any time an election doesn't go his way, and without any other credible evidence to back his claims. The Big Lie threatens their right to have their vote counted along with that right for everybody else.
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Pa. Senate GOP primary too close to call, recount likely
Source: AP
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for an open U.S. Senate seat is too close to call and is likely headed for a statewide recount to decide the winner of the contest between heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick. A recount would mean that the outcome of the race might not be known until June 8, the deadline for counties to report their results to the state.

Oz, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, led McCormick by 1,079 votes, or 0.08 percentage points, out of 1,340,248 ballots counted as of 5 p.m. Friday. The race is close enough to trigger Pennsylvania’s automatic recount law, with the separation between the candidates inside the law’s 0.5% margin. The Associated Press will not declare a winner in the race until the likely recount is complete.

Both campaigns have hired Washington-based lawyers to lead their recount efforts, and both have hired Philadelphia-based campaign strategists who helped lead the operation to observe vote-counting on Election Day for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2020. The two campaigns already had dozens of lawyers and volunteers fanned out around the presidential battleground state as election workers and election boards toiled through the remaining ballots.

The big field of Republican candidates and their super PACs reported spending more than $70 million during the primary campaign. The winner will face Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in November’s midterm elections in what Democrats see as their best opportunity to pick up a seat in the closely divided Senate. Fetterman won the Democratic nomination while in the hospital recovering from a stroke four days before the election. The incumbent, Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, is retiring after serving two terms.
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caltrek wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 4:13 pm Republican Rancher Takes Down a Trump-backed Extremist in Idaho’s Gubernatorial Primary
by Alex Henderson
May 20, 2022

Extract:
(Alternet) And in Idaho, the former president suffered a major disappointment when Idaho Gov. Brad Little defeated Trump-backed challenger Janice McGeachin, Idaho’s far-right lieutenant governor, by 21%.

One of McGeachin’s outspoken critics in Idaho is Jennifer Ellis, a rancher and conservative Republican who heads the political action committee Take Back Idaho.

During an interview with Politico published on May 20, Ellis discussed her group’s activities.

Ellis, Politico’s Ryan Lizza notes, founded Take Back Idaho in 2021 to “beat back the growing tide of extremist candidates” in her state. She formed the group, Lizza notes, after she “noticed a dramatic shift within the Republican Party.”
...
The Take Back Idaho founder told Politico, “I think there are so many bigger concerns than who Trump wants. In a state like ours, we’ve got a lot of challenges. We’ve got drought. We’ve got wildfire season coming. We have got infrastructure that needs to be rebuilt. I mean, we have real-world problems, not political problems. And we need grownups to fix them. And that’s the folks that we tried to get elected. So, I think it’s a waning influence over time.”
Source: https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/this-r ... l-primary/

What exactly is an extremist? In my eyes anyone that wants to make half or more of our children into members of the lgbt, go behind the backs of parents to go on hormones, silence and censor 40-50 million people online, allow thief's to steal and rob from our stores without prison time and label every white person in this country if they want to feel safe is a rather extreme position. But, hell, that's just me. We all have our opinions on what is extreme.

Caltrek, I like a lot of what you do so I am going to be honest and try to be respectful. I think healthy and honest debate is the best way forward towards working things out.
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Herschel Walker, Raphael Warnock to face off in crucial Georgia Senate rac
Source: NBC News
ATLANTA — Former football star Herschel Walker has clinched Georgia’s Republican nomination for Senate, NBC News projects setting up a general election against Sen. Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent who also won his party’s primary Tuesday.

The race is projected to be one of the most competitive in the nation, and will be a rare case of two Black candidates competing in a critical Senate contest. With the Senate split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, both parties see Georgia as a must-win.

Deep Republican red for years, the state favored Democrat Joe Biden over then-President Donald Trump by a narrow margin in the 2020 presidential election before sending two Democrats to the Senate — including Warnock in a special election — in 2021.

Now, with Warnock seeking a full term, the GOP has turned to Walker, an icon in the state who won the Heisman trophy as a standout at the University of Georgia. Trump, seeking revenge and influence in a state that’s now a top-tier battleground, encouraged Walker to run. The two have a history: In the 1980s, Walker played for Trump’s New Jersey Generals franchise in the now-defunct United States Football League before moving on to the NFL.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-e ... -rcna30185
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weatheriscool I'm going to be totally honest with you, no-one and I mean no-one wants half of all children to become lgbt. They want all children to have the right to express their own sexuality freely whether they be heterosexual homosexual bisexual asexual whatever as long as that individual has the ability to decide for themselves what they are and no-one else that is the mainstream view, outside of a potentially larger dating pool even bisexual or homosexual people have no reason to wish for a larger number of LGBT people.

Similarly no parent should hold authority over their child's gender or sex, it is down to the individual to determine what they are or are not - this going behind the backs of parents to go on hormones is not want anyone wants either, most would rather a thorough psychological examination of the individual in question followed by whatever treatment the medical professionals deem beneficial for the individual making the decision.

Equally no-one wants to censor 40-50 million people online, we want to censor far, far more than that but websites and social networks for different political interests will always exist to cater to those who have been banned from other sites. This goes for the entirety of the political spectrum, censorship is not and never has been a one way street.

Equally very few people would want a robber not to get jail time, the issue is more complicated than that though as it pertains to what they robbed, why they did it, are they improvished and stealing food to feed themselves or their families? Would you condemn someone as a criminal simply for that? Now if someone tried to rob a car dealership at gunpoint then clearly there is a difference there and even then we need to discuss what their imprisonment would hope to achieve - to reform the individual would be the wish of most people so that they do not take such an action again.

Lastly literally everything and everyone can be labelled, you labelled white people in your own post. People are not anti your wishes to see children protected, your sexuality to remain your own, the role of a society in aiding and reforming it's populace or how to define any of it,
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Primary Results 2022: Georgia
May 25, 2022

Introduction:
(CBS) Incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia is projected to survive a primary challenge by former Sen. David Perdue, who received former President Donald Trump's biggest endorsement and the most financial help he's given to any candidate so far.

Trump-backed candidates appeared to be foundering Tuesday night in Georgia, although his preferred Senate candidate, Herschel Walker, is projected to win the Republican nomination. But CBS News projected Attorney General Chris Carr survived the challenge from the Trump-backed John Gordon.

And CBS News projected Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whom Trump asked in January 2021 to "find" enough votes to overturn the results, will win the Republican nomination over his challenger, Trump-backed U.S. Rep. Jody Hice. He was one of the House Republicans who challenged the election results in Pennsylvania and Arizona on Jan. 6, 2021.

"My thinking was the vast majority of Georgians are looking for honest people for elected office. Someone who would do their job, follow the law, look out for them — regardless of the personal cost to do so," Raffensperger said. "Standing for you, standing for the rule of law and election integrity, and standing for the truth — and not buckling under the pressure is what people want. I was elected to serve the people and so I shall. And so I have."
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Kemp, meanwhile, will take on Democrat Stacey Abrams, whom he defeated in 2018.
Read more here regarding Georgia and results in other states:https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/pr ... tion-2022/
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Alabama
By Meridith Conroy
May 24, 2022

Extract:
(Five Thirty Eight) The Republican primary in Alabama for senator is...still up in the air. Former Business Council of Alabama President Katie Britt has a solid lead with 44 percent, but that’s not enough to avoid a runoff. Rep. Mo Brooks leads former Army helicopter pilot Mike Durant for second place, 29 percent to 24 percent.

In the GOP primary for governor in Alabama, incumbent Kay Ivey is hovering just above the 50 percent threshold she needs to avoid a runoff against either former Ambassador to Slovenia Lindy Blanchard (in second with 19 percent) or businessman Tim James (the son of former Gov. Fob James, in third with 16 percent). [Editor’s Note: ABC News projected that Ivey will win her election. As of 8:40 a.m. ET, Wednesday, she had 54 percent of the vote, well above her other challengers with 94 percent of the expected vote in.

In the GOP primary for Alabama’s 5th District, Madison County Commissioner Dale Strong has...a strong lead with 47 percent, but as of now he’d be forced into a runoff with former Assistant Secretary of the Army Casey Wardynski, who sits at 22 percent.

In the Republican primary for Alabama secretary of state, state Auditor Jim Zeigler (43 percent) and state Rep. Wes Allen (39 percent) seem like they’re headed for a runoff. Notably, both have questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
Read more here concerning the results of races in other states: https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/g ... tion-2022/
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