2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread

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Junge, McDonald Rivet Win Primaries in Race to Replace Kildee in Congress
by Melissa Nann BurkeKim Kozlowski
August 6, 2024

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(Detroit News) Republican Paul Junge and Democrat Kristen McDonald Rivet were victorious Tuesday night in their respective primaries for the open mid-Michigan seat in the U.S. House being vacated by retiring U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee.

Junge of Grand Blanc Township won with 74.8% of the vote, while former Dow executive Mary Draves of Midland was pulling 15.1% and small businessman Anthony Hudson of Grand Blanc Township had 10.1%, with 86.9% of the votes counted, according to unofficial returns.

"I am grateful voters responded to my commitment to secure the border, rebuild our economy and take on the many failures in Washington, D.C.," Junge said in a statement. "Our country is headed in the wrong direction, and I will use my experience in the Trump administration securing the border, as a criminal prosecutor, and business owner to fight hard for the people of mid-Michigan."

Read more here: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news ... 98489007/

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August 6, 2024 Michigan Primary Election Result for U.S. Senate
by Walt Lindale
August 7, 2024

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(Sunny 101.9 FM) Marquette, MI – August 7, 2024 – The stages are set for the November general election after voters made their voices heard in yesterday’s primary in Michigan. In the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow, it will be Democrat Elissa Slotkin taking on Republican Mike Rogers this fall.

Read more here: https://sunny.fm/featured/the-sunny-mo ... -results

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Democrat Ferguson and Republican Republican Reichert Advancing to General Election in Race for Washington Governor
by Kipp Robertson
August 6, 2024

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(King5) OLYMPIA, Wash. — Democrat Bob Ferguson and Republican Dave Reichert will advance to the November general election.

Following an initial ballot count during the August primary, Ferguson led the pack of candidates with 46% of the vote. Reichert trails Ferguson with 28% of the vote.

The top two vote-getters will move on to the Nov. 5 general election

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Ferguson, the current state attorney general, was first elected as Washington’s attorney general in 2012. He also previously served on the King County Council.
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Reichert, a former U.S. representative and King County sheriff, served with the King County Sheriff's Office for 33 years before being elected to Washington's 8th Congressional District in 2004. He left Congress in 2019.

Read more here: https://www.king5.com/article/news/pol ... da46816

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Harris-Walz Campaign Indicates It Raised $36 million in 24 Hours After Running Mate Revealed
by Melissa Quinn
August , 2024

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(CBS) Washington — Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign said it raked in $36 million in the 24 hours after she announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.

Read more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politic ... NewsSerp

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Trump-Harris live: Harris takes major 5-point lead in new poll as stage now set for presidential debate

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Kamala Harris has surged to a five-point lead over Donald Trump in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, putting her on 42 per cent to the Republican’s 37 per cent nationally with less than three months to go to November’s presidential election.

On Thursday, the Democrat said she welcomed Trump’s decision to debate her in September, which the former president announced at a rambling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

“I hear that Donald Trump has finally committed to debating me on September 10,” the Vice President wrote on X. “I look forward to it.”

Trump’s announcement came after a string of flip-flops on whether or not he would participate.

During his attention-seeking press session, the Republican presidential nominee spent approximately an hour delivering an unhinged variation on his usual stump speech, punctuated with attacks on Harris, Joe Biden and Tim Walz and warnings that America is “in the most dangerous position it’s ever been in” and “very close to a world war”.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 93376.html

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Democrats bask in optimism of Harris surge: ‘Enthusiasm is off the charts’

Party enjoys resurgence of excitement that was lacking during Biden’s bumpy re-election campaign

Sat 10 Aug 2024 11.00 BST

With Kamala Harris now poised to take on Donald Trump in the 5 November US presidential election, her fellow Democrats are enjoying a resurgence of optimism that was sorely lacking for much of this year, as Joe Biden struggled through a bumpy re-election campaign that he ultimately abandoned.

Since the president’s stumbling performance in his late June debate against Trump and his shock decision to withdraw from the race weeks later, Harris has rapidly ascended to become the party’s presumptive presidential nominee. Polls have shown her drawing even with, and sometimes overtaking, Trump in the support of voters nationally, and in the handful of crucial swing states that will determine the election.

The vice-president has pressed her attack by holding energetic rallies across the country, most recently with Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor who Harris this week selected as her running mate. Democratic strategists and activists say Harris has given the party a much-needed reset after months of jitters over whether Biden’s struggling candidacy was setting the party up for a historic wipeout.

“Among the base, the enthusiasm is off the charts, probably the most excited I’ve seen people since the Obama campaign,” said Ben Tribbett, a Democratic strategist in Virginia. “And I think a lot of that has to do with a sense of relief. I think people really felt like we were in a situation that was unfixable and untenable.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... z-optimism



Credit: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Wednesday. Photograph: Kevin Mohatt/Reuters

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