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Arkansas

Biden, Trump qualify for Arkansas ballot as filing period for 2024 election kicks off

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump qualified for the Arkansas ballot on Monday as the filing period for next year’s election in the state kicked off. Dozens of candidates filled the state Capitol rotunda to make their bids official for the state’s primary and nonpartisan judicial elections, which […]

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Alabama

Alabama Democrats express frustration over redistricting; GOP proposal to get vote Monday | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Majority Republican lawmakers have not released their ideas for redrawing Alabama’s congressional districts to comply with a Supreme Court ruling, leading Democrats on Thursday to accuse GOP lawmakers of shutting them, and the public, out of the process ahead of next week’s special session on redistricting. Alabama lawmakers begin the special […]

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Alabama

The US House majority is in play next year after a weak GOP midterm showing and recent court ruling | #elections | #alabama

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Republican Rep. David Schweikert used to win his wealthy, suburban Phoenix congressional district by nearly 30 points. Then Donald Trump was elected president, and his victories started shrinking. Schweikert, who won his last election by just 3,200 votes, is now among the top 2024 targets for Democrats, who sense better-than-expected odds […]

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Alabama

Alabama senator says white nationalists are racists after weeks of declining to say so | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday backed off his defense of white nationalists, telling reporters in the Capitol that white nationalists “are racists.” Tuberville’s brief comment in the hallway, after a regular weekly lunch with his GOP Senate colleagues, follows several media interviews in which he has repeatedly declined to describe white […]

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