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Last week's primary in Pinal County was marred by ballot issues, giving both Republicans and Democrats opportunity to push their respective narratives about election administration.

Trump’s influence elevates weak candidates while deterring other conservatives from seeking office.

Measures that track confidence in the economy are being skewed downward by politically disgruntled Americans.

Meijer was one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump last year.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) clinched a victory on Wednesday when the Senate — including 48 of the chamber’s 50 Republicans — voted overwhelmingly to admit Finland and Sweden to NATO. The resolution, which cleared the chamber in a bipartisan 95-1 vote, was a top priority for the Republican leader, who wanted to send a signal…

The Democrats are making an important and timely show of competence, success and 'winning.' President Biden is at the helm of all this winning.

The Party has an opportunity to seize the mantle as the defender of long-established individual rights.

In the congressional race, Ogles scored Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's endorsement and overcame a fundraising advantage from his top opponents.

The Maury County mayor won Tennessee's crowded Republican primary for an open congressional seat in Nashville.

Republicans on Friday unanimously chose Milwaukee in swing state Wisconsin to host the 2024 national convention, beating out Nashville in deep-red Tennessee.

The president has kept Republicans on board by not attacking Trump’s initiatives.

A backlash against the Supreme Court could create a breakwater against a Republican red wave in November.

Dana Milbank identifies Gingrich as the culprit who began steering the GOP away from Reagan and toward Trump.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake prematurely claimed victory in the primary GOP for Arizona governor on Aug. 3 while alleging possible voter fraud. Lake would win the primary the next day.

Lake will advance to the general election, where she will face off against Democrat Katie Hobbs, currently Arizona's secretary of state.

Both got Trump's endorsement. Only one is a Trump-style candidate.

Republican state lawmakers this year have been losing in primaries at nearly twice the average rate of the past decade.

Republican Jamie Thompson will face Democrat Robert Kull in November's midterm election for District 28 in the Michigan House of Representatives.

Republican Dale Biniecki will face Democrat Reggie Miller for District 31 of the Michigan House of Representatives in the November 2022 primary.

Far-right candidate Andy Ogles has won Tennessee’s crowded Republican primary for an open congressional seat in Nashville.

The opposition coalition mobilized a large swath of the state’s electorate –including Republican and independent voters – to turn out in historic numbers.

The Arizona outcome is especially consequential given the role the state played in the 2020 election and its aftermath.

They criticized the current Republican county leaders for not doing enough to stop the school mask mandate instituted by the county health director. And, during Tuesday’s primary election, voters overwhelmingly supported the right-leaning Ottawa Impact group over the more moderate Republican incumbents. Ottawa Impact candidates won big in the Aug. 2 Republican primaries for Ottawa County Board of Commissioners, sweeping eight out of nine primaries they ran in. Bergman previously framed the primary as a battle for the county’s Republican party, pitting “far-right” Ottawa Impact challengers against incumbent moderate conservatives. Curran was the only Ottawa Impact candidate not facing an incumbent county commissioner.

A new cadre of election deniers in swing states, and new punishment meted out for holding Trump to account.

Multiple Trump-backed winners in key primary elections have cast doubts on the 2020 election results.

Bowers testified that a scheme to replace Biden electors with a fake slate for Trump was a "tragic parody."

Michigan Republican Rep. Peter Meijer lost Tuesday to a primary challenger backed by former President Donald Trump as he and two other Republican U.S. House members who voted to impeach Trump fought to hang onto their seats.

Kansas voters turned out in droves to resoundingly reject an anti-abortion ballot measure, the first nationwide since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Matt Hall is headed toward victory in the Republican primary for the 42nd District in the Michigan House of Representatives, according to unofficial election results in Tuesday’s primary election. The Associated Press called the 42nd House District race for Hall at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday, with 65.5% of votes counted. The 42nd Michigan House District was newly redrawn this year, and includes several townships within Kalamazoo and Allegan Counties. See the map below for the newly defined boundaries for state House Districts 40, 41, 42 and 45 in Kalamazoo County. More on MLive:Kalamazoo County election results for Aug. 2, 2022Michigan U.S. House election results for Aug. 2, 2022Michigan State Senate election results for Aug. 2, 2022Michigan State House districts election results for Aug. 2, 2022

Tudor Dixon, a conservative news commentator from Norton Shores, decisively won the Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday, according to a projection by the Associated Press. Trump, in the endorsement, called Dixon a “conservative warrior” and later phoned into a telephone rally to boost her campaign. Though the presumptive Republican nominee for attorney general, Matt DePerno, has declined to endorse a candidate in the primary. That morning the DeVos family, billionaires who cast a long shadow of influence in Michigan Republican politics, endorsed her campaign. The candidates who were betting their success on grassroots enthusiasm — particularly Soldano and Kelley — had a foil in Dixon from that point onward.

"Our party won't be deterred," Gustavo Portela, communications director for the Michigan GOP, said in a statement.

As we await the official results from Tuesday’s primary, we spoke to political experts about the influence former President Donald Trump has on the race.

First, five candidates for governor were disqualified from the ballot. Then, the FBI arrested another one. After Tuesday, Michigan Republicans still face the biggest challenge yet — Gov. Whitmer.

Trump's influence on the GOP, abortion and resentment over COVID-19 restrictions are all on the ballot on Tuesday.

The Grand Rapids Republican called the scheme ‘political jiu-jitsu’

I no longer believe in the Republican Party’s policies on guns, civil rights and women's rights.

That group of candidates, called Ottawa Impact, has fielded nine Republicans to challenge eight same-party county board incumbents and one open seat on the board in the Aug. 2 Republican primary. Joe Moss, the executive director of Ottawa Impact and a candidate in the District 5 primary, did not return multiple calls for comment. Incumbent County Commissioner and Board Chair Matt Fenske said the county GOP is already splintered, “commandeered and taken over” by Ottawa Impact with the goal of unseating all Republican county board incumbents except county commissioner Kyle Terpstra. Fenske and Bergman were among six Republican county board incumbents recently censured by the Ottawa County Republican Party Executive Committee for allegedly encouraging Democrats to vote in the hotly contested Aug. 2 Republican Primary. The challenged Ottawa County commissioners, she said, haven’t done anything to combat it.

Former president Donald Trump has endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon just days before Michigan’s primary election.

It’s true that US voters dislike Democrats and Republicans. But Americans dislike each other even more, and disagree fiercely about what the alternative should be.

Many of the Republicans running for local, state, and federal elections in Michigan this year continue to peddle conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud

With “Three Johns” aspiring to succeed McConnell, Republicans keep tabs on how their caucus splits on big votes.

Despite a discredited election review and false claims about the 2020 election, this year's primary, coming up on Tuesday, isn't all that different in Arizona's biggest county.

There's been a slight drop in support for Trump running again — but Trump's party is otherwise forgiving of his effort to retain power.

Desperate to retain control of Congress, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee becomes the latest party entity to aid a Trump-endorsed Republican in a contested primary.

Also on the Republican ticket is ex-commissioner Tony Peraica and Todd Thielmann, who lost his county job because of a nepotism ban.

Meddling in GOP primaries to boost weak general-election candidates can sometimes be smart politics, but not when it could hurt a Michigan congressman who voted to impeach Trump.

The absence of these exemptions is a sign of the anti-abortion-rights movement’s distrust of women and the medical establishment.

Buffalo Rep. Chris Jacobs was once considered a rising star in the GOP. But his support of an assault weapons ban cost him.

The sharpest opinions on the debate from around the web

The following is a transcript of an interview with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez that aired Sunday, July 24, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

The Republican is now opposite former friends like Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

The GOP, certainly in the Grand Canyon State, is not moving on from the former president. At least not yet.

In Moore v. Harper the Supreme Court will decide if anyone besides itself should be able to adjudicate American election law.

The Senate has unexpectedly launched a new push to protect same-sex marriage in federal law.

The House has overwhelmingly approved a bill tp protect same-sex and interracial marriages.

A new poll shows where Republican voters in Michigan stand on the governor’s race in the upcoming GOP primary election in August.

Former President Donald Trump and Maryland's Republican governor, Larry Hogan, aren’t waiting until 2024 to fight over the future of the GOP.

Brian Dahle is the California Republican Party's longshot hope to defeat Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court handed Republicans their newest weapon to weaken any Democratic governors in the battleground state.

Sen. Mike Lee has won Utah’s Republican primary by brushing off attacks from two challengers who didn’t vote for former President Donald Trump in 2020.

Seven states are set to host primary elections Tuesday as the nation comes to terms with last week’s stunning Supreme Court ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.

Tens of thousands of suburban voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party’s gains of recent years are suddenly becoming Republicans.

Federal agents have searched the Virginia home of a Trump-era Justice Department official who championed efforts by President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Katie Britt has won the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama, defeating six-term Congressman Mo Brooks in a primary runoff after former President Donald Trump endorsed and then un-endorsed him.

Facebook has removed a campaign video by Republican Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens that shows him brandishing a shotgun and declaring that he's hunting RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only.

South Dakota senators are staying silent on how they will vote as they weigh whether to remove Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg from office for his conduct surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash.

For families divided along red house-blue house lines, summer's slate of reunions, group trips and weddings poses another exhausting round of navigating divides.

Dozens of Republican candidates who sought Donald Trump’s endorsement have spent months parroting the former president's baseless claims of 2020 election fraud.

President Joe Biden has told the largest federation of labor unions that he’s rebuilding the U.S. economy around workers.

Nevada Republicans have selected a former state lawmaker who has been repeating the false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen as their nominee to oversee future elections in the state.

New York congressional candidate Carl Paladino says he was wrong to invoke Adolf Hitler when he said in an interview last year that he was “the kind of leader we need today” because of his ability to rally crowds.

Republicans are pushing an anti-Big Tech message in the midterm campaigns as they look to tap into the resentment toward large technology companies that increasingly courses through their party.

Democrats are defending their record on crime a day after an election for district attorney in California exposed lingering vulnerabilities.

The public hearings of the House committee investigating the insurrection pose a challenge to Democrats seeking to maintain narrow control of Congress.

An Arizona judge has declined a request by the state Republican Party to block most mail ballots for the 2022 election, preserving the voting method used by the overwhelming majority of voters.

Even the staunchest defense hawks in the Republican Party stood virtually united by Donald Trump’s side when the then-president was impeached in late 2019 after pressuring Ukraine’s leader for “a favor” and withholding $400 million in military aid.

When Philadelphia’s election board prepared to count ballots last year that were mailed-in without the voter’s handwritten date, Republicans threatened impeachment.

A former Mike Pence aide seeking to oust Indiana’s Republican secretary of state is fending off criticism about twice leaving jobs in that office after being written up for poor job performance.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger probably would not have won last week’s Republican primary without Democrats.

Two more Republican candidates for governor are suing to get on the Aug. 2 primary ballot, just days before the Michigan lineup must be settled.

Georgia still struggles with its history of slavery, segregation and racial injustice, but voters in the Deep South state have for the first time selected two Black candidates to represent the major parties in a U.S. Senate race.

The Michigan Bureau of Elections says five GOP candidates for governor are ineligible for the August ballot, including former Detroit Police Chief James Craig and Quality Guru Perry Johnson.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has defeated five Republican challengers in a Georgia primary that tested conservative voters’ tolerance of her divisive politics.

Georgia's Stacey Abrams has benefitted from being unopposed in the state's Democratic primary for governor by using the period to spread her message while Republicans have fought.

Kansas’ highest court has upheld a Republican redistricting law that improves the GOP's chances of flipping the state's only congressional seat held by a Democrat.

Former President Donald Trump’s influence was enough to elevate his Senate candidate to victory in North Carolina on Tuesday.

The last full day of campaigning in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested primaries for governor and U.S. Senate is under way, with a top Senate candidate in the hospital and establishment Republicans trying to stave off victories by candidates they view as too toxic to win in the fall.

Republicans running for Michigan governor have met in their first debate.

The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

A New York judge says he’s close to releasing Donald Trump from a contempt finding, but only if the former president meets certain conditions, including paying $110,000 in fines accrued for failing to turn over documentsin a state civil investigation. Judge Arthur Engoron said Wednesday he will conditionally lift Trump’s contempt finding if, by May 20, Trump submits additional affidavits detailing efforts to search for records and explaining his and his company’s document retention policies, a company he hired to aid the search completes its work and he pays the fines. Engoron ruled Trump in contempt on April 25 and fined him $10,000 per day for not complying with a subpoena.

University of Nebraska regent Jim Pillen has won the state’s crowded Republican primary race for governor over a candidate endorsed by Donald Trump.

Bridge Michigan’s Lauren Gibbons speaks on how the republican party is responding to the possibility of Roe V. Wade in Michigan.

Primary elections in Ohio have set the stage for a more competitive phase of the midterm primary season, with closely watched races in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia scheduled for later this month.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kevin Rinke says his “bold” proposal to eliminate Michigan’s personal income tax would help residents and sets him apart in a 10-person primary field.

Voters across a dozen states are set to decide primary elections this month that will determine the people and priorities leading the GOP into the fall midterms and beyond.

Petitions filed by three Republicans seeking to run for Michigan governor this year are being challenged due to alleged forgery and other signature and form issues.

A group tied to Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon is challenging nominating petitions submitted by rival candidate James Craig, saying he likely did not turn in enough valid signatures to qualify for the GOP primary.

Dozens of Republican leaders in Ohio are mounting a last-minute effort to urge former President Donald Trump not to endorse JD Vance in the crowded upcoming primary for an open Senate seat.

Three Republican senators are breaking from their party to support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic nomination to the Supreme Court.