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What Buck's retirement means for Boebert |
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) will be leaving office early, creating a tighter majority for the Republicans' already razor-thin control of the chamber, but his departure also creates an interesting issue for a Colorado colleague. |
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Rep. Ken Buck (R) is he's going to depart the job later this month. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R), who represents the nearby 3rd District, has said she plans to shift gears in the November election. Buck's decision to bow out early sets up a special election. Does Boebert leave her 3rd District seat to make a play for the special election? If she does, would she win the general? More analysis from The Hill on the unusual situation Meanwhile, Boebert has said she's still going ahead with her district shift. She called out Buck's decision to leave early. "Ken Buck's announcement yesterday was a gift to the Uniparty. The establishment concocted a swampy backroom deal to try to rig an election I'm winning by 25 points," she said. "Forcing an unnecessary Special Election on the same day as the Primary Election will confuse voters, result in a lame duck Congressman on day one, and leave the 4th District with no representation for more than three months. The 4th District deserves better," Boebert added. Buck, 65, has been a member of Congress since 2015. Boebert was elected in 2021. |
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Wall Street veteran Marty Dolan is launching a long-shot primary challenge against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). "The Radicals can’t deliver more than breadcrumbs when they ignore that the primary breadwinners are leaving and brush off taxpayer concerns in favor of abstract populist ideologies. Enough is enough," he wrote in his campaign announcement. "New Yorkers have seen it all, including scams like the Radicals … |
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Nikki Haley received more than 77,000 votes in Georgia's Republican primary race Tuesday despite dropping out of the race six days prior. The former South Carolina governor secured 77,761 votes — about 13.2 percent of the vote — in Georgia's GOP presidential primary contest, according to Decision Desk HQ. Haley had dropped out of the race after Super Tuesday last week, having lost to former President Trump in all but two early … |
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Former President Trump celebrated a "great day of victory" Tuesday after winning enough delegates in the day's primaries to clinch the GOP nomination for president. |
President Biden didn't see a bump in polling after his State of the Union address last week, with new polls showing no improvement for the incumbent. Ahead of the State of the Union, Biden's approval rating was 40 percent in a Yahoo News/YouGov poll. In a new survey, released Tuesday by the same duo, the president’s approval rating had fallen to 39 percent. Also ahead of the State of the Union, former President Trump … |
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Local and state headlines regarding campaigns and elections: |
- Michigan Senate panel votes to expand open records law to governor, lawmakers (The Detroit News)
- Arkansas IDs will no longer have gender-neutral option (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
- Column: Schiff cheapened himself with his cynical effort to help Garvey in Senate primary (L.A. Times)
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- House Republicans' 2024 Strategy: Talk About Abortion More, Not Less (Wall St. Journal)
- The Fed's inflation fight is starting to feel like a forever war (Axios)
- Where, and How, Is Kate Middleton? The Internet Knows (The Daily Beast)
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A Georgia judge is expected to decide this week whether to boot Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and her office from former President Trump's election interference case because of her romance with a subordinate. Judge Scott McAfee has said Willis's relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade "could result" in … Read more |
| Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) reassured her that everything "will be fine" before she delivered the State of the Union response last week that has since been ridiculed online. Britt spoke with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on his latest podcast episode that aired Wednesday, discussing her experience with preparing … Read more |
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