Candidly articles
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Trump Gets Win as Candidate Lands Primary Victory
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has won his state's Republican U.S. Senate primary election, delivering former President Donald Trump a key win that could decide which party controls the Senate next year.Justice, who was endorsed by Trump shortly after entering the race last year, became the GOP Senate candidate on Tuesday night, more than doubling the vote total of his nearest competitor, U.S. Representative Alex Mooney, at the time of publication, according to the Associated Press.While...
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Statehouse Beat: Candidates aren't addressing real-life issues
West Virginia regularly has some of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country, but initial early voting numbers for the May 14 primary are coming in low even by
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Arizona GOP Senate candidate is getting outgunned—and she's not alone
Among Senate Republicans' top targets this cycle, Arizona initially looked promising. While Senate Democrats are defending seats in even tougher territory such as Ohio and Montana, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s retirement in Arizona left Democrats fighting to protect a seat no longer anchored by a Democratic incumbent. But election denier and MAGA diehard Kari Lake, the likely GOP nominee, is upending Senate Republicans' calculus in the state. Arizona Republicans are privately wincing at Lake's...