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| Crucial southwestern battleground holds Senate, House primaries today |
| 2024-07-30 |
| [FoxNews] After narrowly losing Arizona's gubernatorial election in 2022, Trump surrogate Kari Lake is the clear front-runner in Tuesday's GOP Senate primary The key southwestern general election battleground state of Arizona holds primaries on Tuesday, which will set the stage for likely competitive autumn showdowns that may determine control of the House and Senate. The contest grabbing the most national attention is the race to succeed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat-turned-independent who is not seeking a second six-year term in the Senate. Kari Lake, the front-runner for the Republican Senate nomination, on the eve of the primary teamed up with former President Trump for a tele-rally. Lake is a top surrogate for the former president as he seeks to regain the White House and gave an address two weeks ago at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Lake, the former TV anchor and major MAGA supporter who never acknowledged her narrow 2022 election defeat for governor, enjoys Trump's backing as she runs for the Senate in a race that is one of a handful that may determine if the GOP wins back the chamber's majority. Besides enjoying the Republican presidential nominee's support, Lake also has a major fundraising advantage over her two GOP primary rivals: Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb and neuroscientist Elizabeth Reye. Democrats control the Senate with a 51-49 majority, but Republicans are looking at a favorable Senate map with Democrats defending 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs. Three of those seats are in red states Trump easily carried in 2020: West Virginia, Montana and Ohio. Five other seats are in key swing states narrowly carried by President Biden in 2020: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In the race for the House, the GOP holds a fragile majority in the chamber. And in Arizona, Democrats are aiming to unseat two vulnerable Republican incumbents in districts Biden carried four years ago. In the 1st Congressional District, which includes parts of northeast Phoenix and surrounding suburbs, seven-term GOP incumbent Rep. David Schweikert is the front-runner in a field of primary rivals that includes businessman Robert Backie and former FBI agent and corporate investigator Kim George. There's a crowded field of Democrats vying for their party's nomination. In the southeastern part of the state, Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani is running for a second term in a district that includes much of suburban Tucson. He's facing off on Tuesday in a GOP primary that includes challenger Kathleen Winn, who came in third in the 2022 nomination race. If Ciscomani wins the primary as expected, he'll face off in November against Democrat Kisten Engel in a rematch of their extremely close 2022 election showdown. Meanwhile, in the red-leaning 8th Congressional District, Trump has endorsed both major candidates in the Republican primary, Blake Masters and Abe Hamadeh, who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate and state attorney general in 2022. 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Blake Masters 12/24/2023 Let them Merge: Foreign Acquisition of US Steel Blake Masters 12/07/2022 Warnock beats Walker in Georgia, padding Dems' Senate edge Related: Abe Hamadeh 02/22/2024 Arizona prosecutor slams ‘soft-on-crime' DA Bragg, refuses to send suspect in Soho hotel murder back to NYC Abe Hamadeh 11/18/2023 A Colorado district court judge ruled Friday that Donald Trump must be placed on the ballot in the 2024 presidential contest. Abe Hamadeh 11/11/2023 Abe Hamadeh Files NEW Lawsuit to DECERTIFY and Redo the Maricopa County 2022 Election Where 60% of Machines Failed |
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| #1 Kari Lake takes her son Leo, 19, to buy a shotgun for dove season: 'We've decided it's time for him'. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-07-30 07:24 |