Black representation in Alabama tested before Supreme Court | #elections | #alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The invisible line dividing two of Alabama’s congressional districts slices through Montgomery, near iconic sites from the civil rights movement as well as ones more personal to Evan Milligan. There’s the house where his grandfather loaded people into his station wagon and drove them to their jobs during the Montgomery Bus […]
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Election skeptics rise in GOP races to run state elections | #elections | #alabama
PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump-endorsed state lawmaker who won the GOP nomination for Arizona secretary of state is the latest candidate to advance to the November ballot for a post overseeing state elections while denying the results of the last one. The early success of such candidates is raising concerns about what happens if those […]
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Justices nix 2d mostly Black district in Louisiana for 2022 | #elections | #alabama
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday put on hold a lower court ruling that Louisiana must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections to increase Black voting power. As a result, Louisiana’s November congressional elections will be held using a Republican-drawn map with white majorities in five of six districts. […]
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Trump endorsement flip scrambles Alabama race | #elections | #alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Katie 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 took the unusual step of rescinding his endorsement. The loss ends a turbulent campaign for Brooks, a conservative firebrand who had fully embraced Trump’s election lies […]
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What to watch in Alabama Senate runoff, DC mayor’s race | #elections | #alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The two Republican candidates in Alabama’s U.S. Senate primary runoff on Tuesday can each boast that at one point they had Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race. Trump first backed U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in the spring of 2021. That endorsement stood for nearly a year until Trump rescinded it as […]
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What to watch in Alabama Senate runoff, DC mayor’s race | #elections | #alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The two Republican candidates in Alabama’s U.S. Senate primary runoff on Tuesday can each boast that at one point they had Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race. Trump first backed U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in the spring of 2021. That endorsement stood for nearly a year until Trump rescinded it as […]
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What to watch in Alabama Senate runoff, DC mayor’s race | #elections | #alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The two Republican candidates in Alabama’s U.S. Senate primary runoff on Tuesday can each boast that at one point they had Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race. Trump first backed U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in the spring of 2021. That endorsement stood for nearly a year until Trump rescinded it as […]
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Trump endorses Katie Britt in Alabama Senate race | #elections | #alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Friday endorsed Katie Britt in an Alabama U.S. Senate race, doubling down on his decision to spurn his previous choice in the Republican primary. Trump called Britt “an incredible fighter for the people of Alabama.” The former president had originally backed U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in […]
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Jan. 6 panel subpoenas McCarthy, four other GOP lawmakers | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel issued subpoenas Thursday to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers in its probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack. The panel is investigating McCarthy’s conversations with […]
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GOP works to get out the vote after calling elections rigged | #elections | #alabama
ATLANTA (AP) — Republican David Perdue has made election fraud the centerpiece of his run for Georgia governor. But if he hopes to win in this year’s midterm elections, his supporters will have to use the same democratic system he says they shouldn’t trust. The only way to win a rigged election, he says, is […]
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