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Natalie notes that a barrage of ads attacking frontrunner KATIE BRITT and MIKE DURANT have helped open up a lane for Brooks, who tried to help overturn the 2020 election. MO BROOKS in the Alabama Senate primary, as he’s managed to bounce back from Trump’s dramatic un-endorsement by consolidating support among Trump supporters anyway. In Alabama … Natalie Allison and NYT’s Trip Gabriel both have stories this morning on the last-minute resurrection of Rep. That prompts David Siders to call this “the week that Republicans ignored Trump’s election lies.” And though November could be a different story, David notes that this development is a change from 2020, when “losing candidates up and down the ballot copying Trump’s fraud claims or refusing to concede.” More on the resistance: Both MEHMET OZ and DAVID MCCORMICK shrugged off Trump’s call for Oz to declare victory prematurely in the too-close-to-call Pennsylvania Senate primary, and losing MAGA candidates elsewhere accepted their losses fair and square. More on the lies: The Atlantic’s Elaine Godfrey on KRISTINA KARAMO, the election fraud conspiracy theorist who could well oversee Michigan’s elections come next year.
In most states, the lawmakers who challenged the 2020 results do not yet have the numbers, or the support of governors, secretaries of state or legislative leaders, to achieve their most audacious aims.” They’ve laid the groundwork for new voting restrictions and, in some cases, new abilities to affect a vote count.īut, but, but: “The Times’s analysis also shows that these efforts have encountered significant resistance from key Republican figures, as well as Democrats. That’s more than 350 sitting lawmakers who have embraced the lies, “turning statehouses into hotbeds of conspiratorial thinking and specious legal theories.” Their ranks make up an outright majority of three chambers: the Arizona House, the Wisconsin House and the Texas Senate.
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And even as his false claims about election fraud have remade the party, they too are running into some limits.Ī smattering of stories that published this weekend highlight the many faces of Trump’s effect on the GOP and American democracy in 2022:īig read of the day: A major NYT tally of all the lies about the 2020 election finds that Trump’s effort to subvert or cast doubt on that count has spread to a full 44% of Republican state legislators in nine key swing states, Nick Corasaniti, Karen Yourish and Keith Collins report.
A few realities are emerging about the GOP electorate: DONALD TRUMP remains the looming heavyweight, though his political style sometimes has more purchase than his explicit endorsement. | Joe Maiorana, File/AP Photo DRIVING THE DAYīetween last week’s primaries in Pennsylvania, Idaho and elsewhere and this Tuesday’s contests in Georgia and Alabama, we’re in the midst of a pivotal couple of weeks for the future of the Republican Party.