UK Conservatives Suffer Double Election Defeat
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was handed a major upset as his Conservative Party lost two key Parliamentary seats in one night. Laura Wright reports on Bloomberg Television.
Fox NewsKari Lake, the Trump-endorsed candidate for Arizona governor, was far from happy on Monday when Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked her about a report that linked her to drag queens.The interview, which was fairly tame on Baier’s end, began with Lake falsely claiming that the 2020 election was “fraudulent” and that President Joe Biden is “illegitimate.” Baier responded by playing a tape of Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers testifying before the House Jan. 6 committee last week that the ele
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Rep. Lauren Boebert won her primary election Tuesday night over state Rep. Don Coram. The pro-Trump Republican said she looks forward to Republicans winning big in November.
State Rep. Krystle Matthews on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, a general election campaign that could begin under the cloud of a possible ethics investigation. Matthews, the second-place finisher in a June 14 primary, defeated author and preservationist Catherine Fleming Bruce in the runoff. Matthews has said she wants to change a toxic culture she says leads senators and others in power to strip away the rights of minorities and those who are in the most need of protection.
U.S. Rep. Michael Guest wins the Republican primary runoff.
Similar trends were reported in counties throughout the region.
The Jan. 6 committee has been building consensus for criminal charges against Trump — even though much of the public still hasn’t fully absorbed its most incriminating findings about his push to remain in power, some of which emerged during Tuesday's surprise hearing.
Conservative state Sen. Darren Bailey's convincing win in the Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary is significant for former President Donald Trump – and for Democrats.
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The former president used a familiar refrain, that he hardly knew her, as he tried to devalue Cassidy Hutchinson's recollections of the turmoil surrounding Jan. 6.
AAron Ontiveroz/GettyTina Peters, the Colorado county clerk who flogged election conspiracy theories and was then indicted for allegedly breaching her own voting machines, lost her primary bid to become the secretary of state.And then she did exactly what you would expect: She denied she lost, cried fraud, and vowed to keep fighting.“It’s not over,” Peters reportedly told supporters at her watch party, while she was 15 percentage points behind the actual winner, Pam Anderson, a former Jefferson
Just hours after a judge sentences an ex-congressman from Nebraska for lying to federal agents, voters in his district are expected to elect a different conservative Republican to represent the GOP-dominated district
Andrew Gillum's summer-fireworks rise and fall is breathtaking even in a state known for its colorful politics.
Voter turnout in Tuesday's Republican runoff elections was slow in some areas and brisk in others, according to a few poll workers around the state.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican candidates who echoed former President Donald Trump's false claims of a stolen presidency were defeated in high-profile nominating contests in Colorado on Tuesday ahead of November's midterm elections. The two Colorado candidates, U.S. Senate hopeful Ron Hanks and county clerk Tina Peters, who had sought the Republican nomination to be Colorado's top election official, are among dozens of Republicans who support Trump's denial of his 2020 election loss, prompting concerns that U.S. democracy could be at risk.
Tina Peters has been charged with breaking into voting machines in an effort to prove fraud in 2020. She refused to concede in her bid to become Colorado's secretary of state
Kevin Stitt wins Republican primary for Oklahoma governor
Republicans have lost each of the past 24 statewide elections.