Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who testified before the House Jan. 6 select committee about attempts made by former President Donald Trump and his allies to persuade him to decertify the state’s electoral votes, was defeated on Tuesday by Republican challenger David Farnsworth for an open state Senate seat.

Term limits locked Bowers out of another state House run. Instead, he chose to battle it out for the 10th District Senate seat, which had him campaigning against Farnsworth, a former colleague and onetime state senator.

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Political newcomer Blake Masters on Tuesday won Arizona’s Republican Senate nomination, setting up a November battle between the well-funded venture capitalist and his Democratic challenger, ex-astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly.

Masters edged out four other opponents: Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, businessman Jim Lamon, Michael McGuire, and Justin Olson.

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A Trump-endorsed Arizona lawmaker who wants to “decertify” the 2020 election results won the Republican nomination for Arizona secretary of state on Tuesday, becoming the latest supporter of unsupported election theories backed by the former president to win the GOP’s nod for a top elections oversight job.

State Rep. Mark Finchem handily dispatched a handful of Republican rivals on Tuesday, including advertising executive Beau Lane, who was supported by Gov. Doug Ducey and much of the state’s GOP establishment but whom Finchem disparaged as a “RINO,” or Republican in name only.

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The scion of a prominent family of supermarket store owners is leaving Congress after losing his bid for reelection to a Trump-backed primary challenger on Tuesday night.

Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) was defeated by John Gibbs, a former senior official in the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Trump administration, in the Republican primary for Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District.

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A modem issue is causing a delay in election results for Wayne County, Michigan and other areas, according to election officials.

Wayne County officials said they do not yet have a timeline for when they will be able to deliver full reporting of the primary election results, according to Click on Detroit.

“Based on the recommendation of the Voluntary Voting Systems Guideline 2.0 issued by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, coupled with AT&T’s decision in March 2022 to no longer support 3G modems, 65 out of 83 Counties in Michigan are no longer modeming unofficial election results,” county officials said.

Michigan’s Secretary of State Office stressed that a number of counties in the state have been in the process of phasing out modems to “transmit election results from cities and townships to their county clerk’s office.” This transition is taking place to prevent the possibility and perception of interference in the election, the office noted in a statement shared with the local outlet.

“Obviously, it takes longer to drive election results physically from jurisdictions to county clerk offices, delaying the reporting of unofficial polling place results by the counties,” the Secretary of State’s Office said. “Polling place results that have been tabulated have been posted on the doors of polling places across the state and are available for public viewing. Some media outlets and other election results tracking organizations visit polling places directly to get these results as quickly as possible.”

Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab won renomination in the state’s Republican primary Tuesday after he ran a campaign defending the integrity of the state’s elections challenged by his rival.

Former President Donald Trump and his allies have sought to elevate down-ballot candidates who embraced his baseless claims of systemic election fraud in 2020, especially for posts that oversee state elections, including secretaries of state, who are the top election officials.

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Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and Republican Party of Arizona chairwoman Kelli Ward tore into Pinal County’s elections administrator over reports of multiple failures in administering the election Tuesday evening.

While county officials blamed the problems on unprecedented demand for ballots, McDaniel and Ward demanded that the election director in the county resign.

“This is a comprehensive failure that disenfranchises Arizonans and exemplifies why Republican-led efforts for transparency at the ballot box are so important. Pinal County Elections Director David Frisk should resign immediately,” the duo said.

At least 20 precincts in the county ran out of ballots and turned voters away with instructions to return after the county printed out new ballots, Fox 10 Phoenix reported.

“During Arizona’s primary elections, the RNC and Republican Party of Arizona’s poll observer program documented and reported multiple failures by Pinal County’s Elections Administrator, including 63,000 mail-in ballots delivered to the wrong voters and multiple Republican-heavy precinct locations running out of ballots,” McDaniel and Ward added.

Arizona, particularly in Maricopa County, became a hotbed for election fraud claims after the 2020 contest. Some candidates running in this cycle, including Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, have cast doubt on the integrity of the 2020 election.

Eric Burlison won the Republican nomination over a crowded field of seven other candidates vying to represent Missouri’s 7th Congressional District.

Burlison, a state senator, won with his message of bringing Christian conservatism and “America First” policy to Washington, D.C. In the solidly Republican district, he will likely skate to victory in November to fill the office left open when Rep. Billy Long decided to run for Missouri’s open Senate seat.

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Paul Junge, a former prosecutor and local news anchor, won the GOP nomination to take on Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, setting up an expensive showdown in a must-win race for Republicans as they seek to retake a majority in the House of Representatives.

With 33% of ballots counted, the ex-Fox 47 Lansing broadcaster had 56% of the vote to his nearest rival’s 23% when the race was called by ABC News.

The seat, which was drawn to encompass more Republican-leaning areas during the decennial redistricting process, covers much of the land surrounding Saginaw Bay and includes the city of Flint.

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Former TV anchor Mark Alford emerged as the victor from a crowded Republican primary field in Missouri’s 4th Congressional District in a bid to replace Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO).

Alford won the nod against six other hopefuls. He will most likely sail to victory in November due to the deep-red makeup of the rural district. Hartzler, who has served the district since 2011, did not run for reelection due to her bid for Missouri’s Senate seat.

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As polls close in Washington, two races will test the political fortunes of GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump.

Republican Reps. Dan Newhouse and Jaime Herrera Beutler face primary challenges as each seeks to hold on to their seats after voting to impeach Trump in connection to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. The Washington incumbents are two of just 10 House Republicans who voted in favor of doing so, and their reelection bids serve as a test to see whether those who supported his impeachment still have a place in the GOP.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) easily dispatched a handful of centrist primary challengers on Tuesday after prominent left-wing figures backing her traveled to Michigan in an attempt to prevent an upset in the race.

The Detroit-area lawmaker triumphed over three rivals in the Democratic primary for Michigan’s 12th Congressional District, including Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey, Lathrup Valley Mayor Kelly Garrett, and former state Rep. Shanelle Jackson. Winfrey had received the endorsement of Pro-Israel America, a lobbying group associated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

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Rep. Sharice Davids will again go head-to-head with her 2020 Republican opponent as she fights to hang on to Kansas’s only Democratic-held House district.

Amanda Adkins, a healthcare technology executive and former chairwoman of the state Republican Party, won the GOP primary Tuesday and will face Davids, whom she unsuccessfully tried to oust in 2020. After redistricting added more rural, conservative areas, the Kansas City-area 3rd Congressional District is rated a “toss-up” by the Cook Political Report.

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Kansas voters rejected a ballot amendment removing the right to an abortion from their state Constitution, the first vote on the issue since the Supreme Court overturned its previous ruling in Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision on June 24, determining that the U.S. Constitution does not include such a right.

The amendment would have overturned a 2019 decision by the state’s Supreme Court that found Kansas’s Constitution includes a right to bodily autonomy, which the state Supreme Court justices said includes abortion.

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A high-profile liberal congressman lost his bid for reelection to an establishment-backed rival on Tuesday night, delivering a stinging blow to the Democratic Party’s left flank.

Rep. Andy Levin was trailing 60%-40% with 82% of votes tallied. Recent polling had shown Stevens was the favorite in the race. The two incumbent Michigan Democrats had been forced into a contentious member vs. member primary fight after Levin’s district became more favorable to Republicans during the decennial redistricting process and he opted to challenge Rep. Haley Stevens in her Democratic-leaning 11th Congressional District rather than run an uphill race in his current seat.

Stevens declared victory before the race was called in a speech at her election night watch party in Birmingham.

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Former President Donald Trump called Eric Schmitt on Tuesday night to congratulate him on clinching the Republican nomination for Senate in Missouri, according to Schmitt’s campaign.

Schmitt bested his challenger ex-Gov. Eric Greitens, who resigned in disgrace in 2018 following a scandal involving allegations of sexual misconduct, an extramarital affair, blackmail, and campaign finance violations.

Trump issued an eleventh-hour endorsement in the race on Monday night, throwing his support behind “Eric” — although he stopped short of saying which Eric he was backing. Still, both Schmitt and Greitens accepted the endorsement as their own and thanked the former president in statements late Monday.

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Far-left Rep. Cori Bush routed a centrist primary challenger on Tuesday, easily securing the Democratic nomination for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District and likely another term in Congress representing the deep-blue St. Louis-area seat.

Bush dispatched Steve Roberts, a prominent state senator and former state representative who sought to portray the first-term congresswoman as out of touch with her constituents. An outspoken progressive and member of the hard-left “Squad,” Bush came under heavy criticism from Roberts for her alleged “hypocrisy,” including for her decision to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on private security for herself despite strongly supporting “defund the police” movements.

Roberts also attacked Bush’s votes against the bipartisan infrastructure bill as well as a domestic terrorism prevention bill proposed by Democrats in the wake of May’s mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt won the Republican nomination for Senate, beating out top rival ex-Gov. Eric Greitens.

Greitens’s primary loss ends a comeback attempt by the former governor, who resigned in disgrace in 2018 following a scandal involving allegations of sexual misconduct, an extramarital affair, blackmail, and campaign finance violations.

Former President Donald Trump on Monday issued an eleventh-hour endorsement for “Eric,” telling supporters he trusts “the Great People of Missouri, on this one, to make up their own minds.” The statement, which came less than 24 hours before polls opened on Tuesday, was embraced by both Greitens and Schmitt. Each of them claimed it for themselves.

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Ahead of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s uncontested victory Tuesday night, state Rep. Sarah Anthony (D) expressed confidence about the Democrat’s prospects of holding onto the governor’s mansion come November.

“I don’t care who comes out of the Republican primary today. It does not matter, because we have a whole Jeopardy question as our governor, one of my most famous constituents,” Anthony proclaimed at a campaign event, per local reporter Jonathan Oosting.

In June 2020, Jeopardy featured a question that referenced Whitmer.

“The person in this job, currently Gretchen Whitmer, has an official summer residence overlooking the Straits of Mackinac,” the question read.

The answer was the governor of Michigan.

Anthony was adamant that Republicans have given the Democrats ample fodder ahead of the midterm elections.

During her re-election campaign for governor, Whitmer indicated she will position herself as a staunch defender of abortion rights access in Michigan following the Supreme Court ruling that overturned precedents first established in Roe v. Wade guaranteeing a right to abortion access nationwide.

Whitmer will be facing conservative commentator Tudor Dixon in the general election.

Michigan voters experienced shorter lines than expected at several polling places after many people chose to cast absentee ballots.

Anywhere between 50-65% of voters are expected to have voted by mail in the 2022 primary, with about 1.1 million people casting absentee ballots as of 6:30 p.m., according to Bridge Michigan. That’s roughly 85% of the 1.3 million people who requested mail-in ballots.

The preliminary numbers are below the 1.8 million absentee ballots that were cast for the 2020 presidential primary amid the height of the coronavirus pandemic but far surpass the 602,411 who voted via mail in 2018 before no-excuse mail-in ballots were approved.

Despite polls closing at 7 p.m. local time in Sedgwick County, Kansas, voting is still underway in several polling centers in the city of Wichita, according to the Wichita Eagle.

Voters who were in line before the 7 p.m. deadline have reportedly been permitted to vote after the closing time. A number of polling centers had lines stacked with over 100 people and even had waiting times eclipsing an hour in some instances, the outlet reported.

Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab attributed the long lines and delays in Wichita to a shortage of staffing in the county.

The long voting lines in Wichita have the potential to delay the county’s election results.

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Conservative commentator Tudor Dixon won the Republican nomination for governor of Michigan on Tuesday, capping off a dramatic primary that saw several GOP candidates disqualified from the ballot and setting up a high-profile showdown with Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in November.

Dixon, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump last week, secured her party’s nod after state courts ordered a series of GOP rivals, including Detroit police Chief James Craig, to be thrown off the ballot for submitting invalid signatures on their candidate petitions.

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Minor hiccups at multiple polling places in Michigan slowed the process at several locations on Tuesday, prompting its secretary of state’s office to instruct a county clerk to oversee a small town’s election rather than the local official.

A county clerk in St. Joseph County was sent to administer the election in Burr Oak Township after it was reported that several absentee ballots were sent to voters who did not request them. However, officials said only a small number of unrequested ballots were sent out.

In Lapeer County, some ballots were incorrectly printed, making them unreadable in the vote tabulating machines. However, election workers took the defective ballots, duplicated the votes onto new forms, and scanned the ballots without problems, officials said.

Michigan state police also responded to a polling location in Linden after receiving reports of an “unattended backpack” that prompted an evacuation and minor delays. The polling location was evacuated after the backpack was discovered at a polling location at Faith Baptist Church, and police cleared the scene at 6:30 local time, just an hour and a half before polls closed.

Confusion was afoot in Pinal County, Arizona, on Tuesday when voters were turned away by election officials in at least 20 precincts and told to come back later because the polling center ran out of ballots, Fox 10 Phoenix reported.

Pinal County’s government explained that unprecedented demand for ballots caused a shortage in certain precincts within the county. The county said it has been printing ballots to address the shortage.

“Due to unprecedented demand for in-person ballots, Pinal County has experienced a ballot shortage in certain, limited precincts. Pinal County is continuing to print additional ballots and distributing them to each affected precinct polling place,” the county tweeted.

“If you experience an issue, a reminder: you can choose to use the express vote device located at the polling place, or as long as you are physically in line at 7:00pm today, you will be permitted to cast a ballot. Voters who arrive after 7:00pm are not permitted to cast a vote,” the tweet added.

Pinal County is located southeast of Phoenix with a population of about 450,000 people.

Precincts 7, 8, 15, and 92 were confirmed to have run short on ballots by Tuesday afternoon, according to ABC15.

Voters in suburban Detroit picked nominees in a highly competitive House race on Tuesday, with Republicans choosing businessman John James and Democrats picking Carl Marlinga, a retired judge, to face off for Michigan’s 10th Congressional District.

James, a businessman and Army veteran who served in the Iraq War, was the Michigan GOP’s Senate nominee in 2018 and 2020 but came up short both times. In 2020, he lost to Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) by less than 100,000 votes, winning 48.2% of the vote to Peters’s 49.9%. But after being recruited into the 10th District race by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), James, whom the GOP considers a top-tier candidate, received former President Donald Trump‘s endorsement and essentially cleared the Republican primary field.

Marlinga, a 75-year-old attorney, served as a judge on the Macomb County Probate Court until his recent retirement. Before becoming a judge, Marlinga was Macomb County’s elected prosecuting attorney for 20 years.

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The polls are starting to close in Arizona, one of the key states that will test former President Donald Trump‘s influence on the party and whether his claims of election fraud will linger past the midterm elections.

Arizonans are set to nominate their choices for secretary of state, the top position that oversees elections; a GOP nominee to face Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in what may be a key race for Republicans to gain control of Congress; and a candidate for governor to replace Gov. Doug Ducey, whom Trump turned on after the 2020 election when the incumbent certified President Joe Biden‘s victory in the state.

A small tranche of polls in a different time zone is set to close in one hour.

There have been multiple “incidents” Tuesday at St. Louis County polling stations, according to the St. Louis County Board of Elections.

At least 40 people “brawled” at Natural Bridge Library in Normandy, Missouri, prompting police to arrive on the scene, according to local reporter Christine Byers.

In Jennings, Missouri, two candidates attempted to “run over” each other near a polling place. It is not immediately clear which candidates were involved in the altercation.

One voter at a polling place in University City threatened to murder one of the candidates up for election, prompting a police response, according to the report.

At Hazelwood Central High School, a worker reportedly refused to permit voters to enter the polling place. That person has been booted from the post.

Lastly, there have been reports of electioneering near the John F. Kennedy Community Center in Ferguson, Missouri, per Byers.

Michigan Republicans picked state Sen. Tom Barrett on Tuesday to challenge Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in the 7th Congressional District, setting up one of the midterm election’s marquee general election showdowns.

Barrett was the only candidate in the race for the GOP’s nod after party leaders cleared the path to the nomination for him, seeing the experienced state legislator and retired Army warrant officer as their best shot to unseat Slotkin, who first joined Congress after unseating GOP Rep. Mike Bishop in 2018.

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A Missouri state appeals court on Tuesday dashed businessman Mark Kummer’s hopes of becoming St. Louis‘s aldermanic president.

The court rejected Kummer’s appeal to a prior ruling from a city judge who blocked him from being on the ballot in September because he didn’t live in the city long enough, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The appeals court also indicated that further appeals would be futile.

City rules dictate that candidates for aldermanic president must reside in the city for at least five years and have been a taxpayer for at least two years prior to the election, per the outlet. Last year, Kummer moved to St. Louis from Boston. He argued that he had lived in St. Louis from 1985 to 1997 and argued the taxpayer requirement was unconstitutional.

Kummer ended his campaign Tuesday as a result and indicated he would back Alderman Jack Coatar in the race, according to the outlet.

Michigan state police responded to a polling location in Linden after receiving reports of an “unattended backpack.”

The polling location was evacuated after the backpack was discovered at a polling location at Faith Baptist Church, and police cleared the scene at 6:30 local time, just an hour and a half before polls closed.

“This afternoon, MSP Bomb Squad was requested to assist Linden PD with evaluation of a suspicious package,” police said in a statement. “No explosive device was discovered and the scene was turned back over to Linden PD for further investigation.”

The FBI has reportedly recovered the backpack, and officials say there is no threat to the public at this time.

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Kelli Ward, who helms the Arizona GOP, reportedly voiced concerns that a plan to produce an alternate slate of electors could “appear treasonous,” according to emails from a Trump campaign lawyer.

Ward had been recruited alongside state Sen. Kelly Townsend (R) and others to aid in efforts to challenge the 2020 election, but both Ward and Townsend raised concerns in December 2020 that the lack of a pending legal challenge to Arizona’s election results could cast a shadow over the alternate elector scheme, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

“Ward and Townsend are concerned it could appear treasonous for the AZ electors to vote on Monday if there is no pending court proceeding that might, eventually, lead to the electors being ratified as the legitimate ones,” Kenneth Chesebro, a Trump campaign lawyer, wrote to members of the campaign’s legal team on Dec. 11, 2020, per the outlet.

Ward had advocated that the alternate elector scheme be kept quiet but ultimately put her name on a document claiming to be a “certificate of the votes of the 2020 electors from Arizona,” the outlet reported. She has also peddled claims that former President Donald Trump was wrongly deprived of victory on election night, having filed a lawsuit to nullify President Joe Biden’s victory in Arizona.

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Just before former President Donald Trump issued his endorsement for “Eric” for Missouri Senate, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) had a call with him about the race.

The call took place Monday around the middle of the day, before Trump gave his endorsement, and Hawley urged Trump to throw his weight behind Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO).

“He called me, and we talked about the race as we have many times. I gave him my view. We talked through different people,” Hawley told CNN. “I told him I thought he should endorse Vicky. … That was my only recommendation. He hadn’t made up his mind when I talked to him.”

Trump’s endorsement of “Eric” provoked confusion as the race has featured two prominent Erics — Attorney General Eric Schmitt and scandal-ridden former Gov. Eric Greitens. Trump has not specified which Eric he supports.

“He was finding it to be a tough choice,” Hawley added. The senator expressed skepticism that Greitens will prevail in the race to succeed outgoing Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO).

The polls have closed in Michigan, Missouri, and Kansas, marking the beginning of one of the biggest primary nights of the year.

Several races, including those in Michigan, will test former President Donald Trump’s influence on the party Tuesday. Several Trump-backed candidates are on the ballot, including those who have questioned the integrity of the 2020 election.

Voters are also set to decide the future of abortion in Kansas, the first state to add the issue to the ballot since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.

Maricopa County‘s top prosecutor issued a cease-and-desist letter to a GOP candidate who suggested felt-tip pens can’t be trusted. Voters stole them from at least two polling locations on primary election day.

Gail Golec, a Republican running for a seat on the county’s board of supervisors, received the letter from Attorney General Rachel Mitchell on Tuesday, urging her to stop her “call to steal the pens” and “immediately tweet a retraction, acknowledging that no one should steal pens from voting locations and urging that no one should do so.”

The use of Pentel felt-tip pens became the center of conspiracy theories in recent years that raised concerns about ink bleeding through the ballots and causing inconclusive results.

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The Michigan Republican Party has canceled its primary election night watch party, citing the receipt of “several death threats” in the days leading up to Tuesday’s contest.

A female employee with the Michigan GOP received several “violent threats” outside the party’s headquarters on Tuesday morning, prompting party leaders to cancel the event. The woman had encountered a man who said he “was planning on shooting up the building and burning it down,” the party said in a statement.

The Michigan GOP said it filed a report with the Lansing Police Department.

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Ten days ago, Rep. Haley Stevens held a 27 percentage point lead over opponent Rep. Andy Levin in the Democratic primary to represent Michigan’s newly drawn deep-blue 11th Congressional District.

In the poll conducted by Target Insyght from July 18-20, Stevens led Levin 58% to 31% among likely Democratic primary voters. But the ground has shifted in the race’s final days, with Levin narrowing the gap considerably, according to Ed Sarpolus, founder and executive director of the firm behind the poll.

“The race is much tighter,” Sarpolus told the Washington Examiner. “She’s leading — but not by much.”

Sarpolus, whose firm has published some of the only public surveys in the multimillion-dollar Democrat-on-Democrat race, has slashed his estimates of a Stevens win. It is black voters who could prove crucial in determining who comes out ahead on Tuesday.

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A trio of House Republicans who risked their political careers to support the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump will face voters on Tuesday amid primary challenges from opponents backed by the onetime commander in chief.

Their races are among several key primaries being held Tuesday as the election calendar heats up, just three months out from the general election.

Reps. Peter Meijer (MI), Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA), and Dan Newhouse (WA) were among the 10 House Republicans who crossed the aisle to vote in favor of impeachment last year. Four of those Republicans chose not to seek reelection this year. Only one, Rep. David Valadao (CA), has survived a primary so far, and he faces a tough general election fight in his Central Valley district.

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Former President Donald Trump endorsed “Eric” in a race for Missouri’s open Senate seat that features two top candidates with that first name.

The message from Trump’s Save America PAC on Monday, which does not specify whether Trump actually supports state Attorney General Eric Schmitt or scandal-ridden former Gov. Eric Greitens, came just one day before Republican voters are set to head to the polls in the Show Me State.

“There is a BIG Election in the Great State of Missouri, and we must send a MAGA Champion and True Warrior to the U.S. Senate, someone who will fight for Border Security, Election Integrity, our Military and Great Veterans, together with having a powerful toughness on Crime and the Border,” Trump said. “We need a person who will not back down to the Radical Left Lunatics who are destroying our Country. I trust the Great People of Missouri, on this one, to make up their own minds, much as they did when they gave me landslide victories in the 2016 and 2020 Elections, and I am therefore proud to announce that ERIC has my Complete and Total Endorsement!”

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Kansans will vote Tuesday on whether to remove abortion protections from the state constitution, making it the first such ballot test in the post-Roe v. Wade United States.

The ballot measure posed to voters asks whether the Republican state legislature should have the authority to regulate state abortion laws, paving the way for significant restrictions or an all-out ban. The June demise of a constitutional guarantee to an abortion in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has opened the door to a wave of anti-abortion legislation in red states, which now have the authority to regulate access to the procedure within their borders.

Abortion is currently legal in Kansas, per the state constitution, which the state Supreme Court determined in 2019 implies a right to abortion that can’t be overruled by state lawmakers. But the state has regulated the procedure. An abortion cannot be performed beyond the 22-week mark, patients must receive state-authored information pamphlets and wait 24 hours after undergoing an ultrasound, and minors requesting abortions must have parental consent. Telemedicine for abortion as well as taxpayer funding for abortions are banned.

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