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Donald Trump hopes to avoid embarrassment in the Georgia governor’s race on Tuesday as Republican primary voters decide the fate of his hand-picked candidate to lead one of the nation’s chief political battlegrounds.

Georgia's Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday could bring an end to the faceoff between Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and former U.S. Sen. David Perdue.

One of the last remaining anti-abortion Democrats in Congress faces the political fight of his life in Texas.

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.

Five of the 10 Republican candidates for governor don’t have enough valid signatures to make the ballot, according to a report from the Michigan Bureau of Elections after a thorough review. The five candidates without enough valid signatures are James Craig, Perry Johnson, Michael Brown, Michael Markey Jr. and Donna Brandenburg. The Michigan Board of State Canvassers will vote Thursday, May 26, to determine which candidates have enough valid signatures. Governor candidates need at least 15,000 signatures, and 100 from each congressional district, to qualify for the primary ballot. RELATED STORIESDeVos family endorses GOP governor candidate Tudor Dixon5 takeaways from Republican candidates for governor in first 2022 debateMichigan governor candidates ‘can’t read Trump’s mind,’ but many think he will endorse themGOP governor candidate boycotts debate, cites ‘extremist’ COVID policy

The Ethics probe into Rep. Madison Cawthorn is the latest in a series of setbacks for the North Carolina Republican, who lost a GOP primary last week.

Former Vice President Mike Pence is making an in-person push for Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

Manchin went back and forth with GOP Sen. Roger Wicker. He also raised fresh hope of striking a deal on Biden's stalled agenda.

House Republicans are threatening to release Capitol Police video taken on Jan. 5 in order to clear the name of a colleague accused of leading tours the day before the deadly riot – but they do not yet have the footage. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol last week asked…

"In retrospect, it's hard to understand David's campaign, and it's certainly not the campaign those of us who were for him expected," Gingrich told The New York Times of Perdue's race.

Rep. David Valadao (R-Hanford) infuriated Central Valley conservatives when he voted to impeach Trump. But Trump is silent on Valadao's reelection bid.

Redrawn congressional maps pit two Democratic incumbents against each other in the Atlanta suburbs.

Georgia takes center stage in Tuesday’s primary elections as Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger try to fight back challengers endorsed by Donald Trump.

“White supremacy shouldn’t be the main target,” said Greene, instead urging panic over the "invasion" at the border.

South Fant will close for K3-K4 school students on June 2. The name dates back to 1870, the first public school for Black people in Anderson County.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson is Arkansas' top Republican and is entering the final stretch of his term with strong approval ratings.

Based on the barrage of television ads and mailers leading up to Tuesday's primary election in Arkansas, it's obvious who the most influential Republicans in the state are. Tom Cotton's making the case for fellow Sen. John Boozman, talking up his conservative bona fides while the two-term senator fends off challenges from the right. Donald Trump's image appears in ads for Boozman and for Sarah Sanders, who served as the former president's White House press secretary and is now running for governor.

President Biden has played a central role in the unsuccessful efforts to enact significant gun control legislation amid thousands of mass shootings.

A Florida appeals court reinstated a new and controversial congressional map backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, who calls the map "race-neutral." CBS News anchor Lana Zak spoke with William March, a Florida political reporter and analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, about what sparked the controversy.

The current national average for a gallon of gasoline is $4.59 a record high price, according to AAA.

MAGA world would rather sit out the Georgia governor's race in November than vote for the incumbent who certified President Joe Biden's 2020 win.

The Russian Foreign Ministry's publication of a list of banned Americans is a largely symbolic move in response to U.S. support for Ukraine and historic sanctions on Russia.

An independent report commissioned by the National School Boards Association details communications with the Biden administration ahead of a controversial call for the federal response to help stop violence at school board meetings.

Pence edges up the list as he places a big Georgia bet against Trump — one that seems likely to pay off.

For some female incumbents running for reelection in Congress this year, holding their seats comes with a new challenge.

“Hi Rep. Boebert — Ask Rep Cawthorn about us. We look forwarding [sic] to getting to know you," American Muckrakers PAC wrote in an ominous tweet.

Summer and election season tend to be unproductive.

Tesla chief Elon Musk denied claims he engaged in sexual misconduct against a SpaceX flight attendant as he critized the Biden administration and Democrats.

Georgia's senior congressman is facing his toughest challenge from Republicans in more than a decade.

Ryan Kelley is backing out of a June 2 governor debate for Republican candidates due to a disagreement over COVID-19 policies. Kelley was one of five Republican candidates invited to the debate at the Mackinac Policy Conference. Kelley said he would participate in the debate if the conference removes the COVID vaccine/test requirement for all attendees. The governor debate is just one component of the Mackinac Policy Conference, which is hosted at Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel. 8 northern Michigan counties see cases double: Michigan COVID data for Thursday, May 19Democrat challenge could disqualify top GOP candidates for Michigan governor5 takeaways from Republican candidates for governor in first 2022 debate

Conservative judicial activists are showing scant respect for precedent or the prerogatives of other parts of the government. Expect the elected branches to fight back.

The Senate has whisked a $40 billion package of military, economic and food aid for Ukraine and U.S. allies to final congressional approval.

“The next time you turn on the light, think of the incinerators," Catherine Glenn Foster told Congress while under oath on Wednesday.

In this edition: Lessons from Tuesday's primaries, a Democratic war over gerrymandering, and an interview with Mallory McMorrow.

The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection sent a letter to another House Republican in an effort to learn more about a tour he led of the building the day before the deadly attack.

Reps. Cheney and Thompson requested a meeting with Loudermilk next week — just weeks ahead of public hearings scheduled to start on June 9

Red state officials are coming out swinging against growing Wall Street efforts to consider environmental risk in investment decisions.

All Democrats and most Republicans rallied behind the latest, and possibly not last, U.S. financial salvo against Russia’s invasion.

The aftershocks of Tuesday’s big primaries are still rumbling across Pennsylvania, but one impact is already clear: Republican voters’ choice of Doug Mastriano in the governor’s race is giving the GOP fits. Conversations with Republican strategists, donors and lobbyists in and outside of Pennsylvania in recent days reveal a party seething with anxiety, dissension and score-settling over Mastriano’s nomination. In the run-up to Tuesday night, Republicans openly used words and phrases such as “sui

Seven-in-10 U.S. adults say they support some restrictions on abortions, and Americans are split on 15-week bans and whether abortion-inducing medication should be allowed to be mailed to homes.

From 2013 to 2018 Hunter Biden and his firm earned about $11 million via legal work, as board member for a Ukraine firm, and via work with Chinese businessmen.

The former Attorney General suggested he was opposed to Democratic maps in New York and Maryland, but his phrasing is passive and parsed.

Both bills, which now head to the Senate, are Congress' first legislative step toward alleviating the baby formula shortage.

The Senate Republican primary race in Pennsylvania is still too close to call as Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick are neck and neck. Robert Costa has the latest.

Oregon’s November gubernatorial election, which is usually a one-sided victory for the Democratic party, is setting up to be a competitive and contentious three-way race.

The US House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the nation’s Capitol is nearing a more public phase of its work. A series of eight prime-time televised hearings will begin on June 9. Afterward, the committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans will report its findings sometime before the midterm elections on Nov. 8. Former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies continue to call the probe a witch hunt focused on scoring political points.

Their reaction to the Buffalo shooting shows that the racist theory has now entered the GOP mainstream.

Can a DeSantis-style base play win a statewide election in Pennsylvania?

A far-right election denier, backed by Donald Trump, won the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania governor.

Mehmet Oz and David McCormick's neck-and-neck GOP Senate contest will come down to absentee ballots — and they're both OK with that.

Liberals have hoped and Republicans have feared that the politics of immigration would give Democrats the upper hand. Reality is proving different.

The House is expected to take up the emergency spending measure later this week.

Trump's high-profile endorsements had mixed results on Tuesday night and Republicans advancing candidates who questioned the eleciton results.

The North Carolina Republican narrowly lost to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, who had received the backing of some Republicans who had tired of Cawthorn's controversies.

House Democrats have unveiled a $28 million emergency spending bill to address the shortage of infant formula in the United States.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill into law making it a second-degree misdemeanor to picket or protest outside private homes.

There was no finding of wrongdoing, according to an attorney for the CEO of Blue Star Strategies, whose work became a flashpoint in the debate over Hunter Biden's role on the oil and natural gas company's board.

Former U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador has won Idaho’s Republican attorney general primary, beating a longtime incumbent who'd been criticized by the far right for not taking a more activist role.

Insider asked McConnell if he believes Democrats are seeking to change the electorate through immigration. He pivoted to talking about Title 42.

The Republicans who attempted to cast Wisconsin's electoral ballots for Donald Trump in 2020 are being sued by plaintiffs who allege they engaged in a conspiracy after Joe Biden won the battleground state.

With its gubernatorial primary set for Tuesday, Pennsylvania is one of a handful of states where a new governor could protect or drastically restrict abortion access.

A racist conspiracy theory is believed to have motivated the suspected gunman in the Buffalo attack. It was once a fringe belief, but it's found its way into the mainstream.

The Republicans, an independent and a self-proclaimed "outsider" are among the candidates hoping to win over Oregon voters who say they're pessimistic about the future of the state.

The maps would help Republicans by creating five districts that lean GOP and at least four others where Republicans would be competitive.

The senators bucked their leaders -- including Mitch McConnell -- who traveled to Kyiv over the weekend to meet with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The Federal Election Commission has decided not to take action against former President Donald Trump after commissioners deadlocked over whether his campaign broke the law by masking how it was spending cash during the 2020 campaign.

Multiple recent polls show even lots of Pennsylvania Republicans don't like Oz — nearly half, in one poll. What happens if he becomes their nominee?

A court-appointed expert released a draft of new congressional maps for New York that are more favorable to Republicans than the original gerrymandered political maps drawn by Democrats.

Upcoming primary elections for state supreme court seats in North Carolina and Arkansas are putting the spotlight on how such races across the U.S. have grown in importance in recent years and led to high-dollar, partisan battles for control.

The nationwide shortage of baby formula is quickly becoming the GOP's latest election-year attack on President Joe Biden.

Eight GOP Gubernatorial hopefuls had a chance to woo primary voters at the Livingston County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner. A debate, of sorts, was the feature of the evening.

Multiple campaigns that used the same paid signature gatherers appear to have the same petition problems, starting with forged signatures.

Congressional Democrats are preparing a plan that would boost President Joe Biden’s requested $33 billion Ukraine aid package to nearly $40 billion.

With anti-immigrant rhetoric bubbling over in the leadup to this year’s critical midterm elections, about 1 in 3 U.S. adults believes an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gains.

For the first time in decades, this year’s race for Wisconsin secretary of state means something.

Republicans who embraced discredited conspiracy theories about Donald Trump's 2020 defeat and preached skepticism about elections now need their supporters to trust the system enough to vote for them.

A GOP House race between incumbents in West Virginia pits a Donald Trump-endorsed congressman against one who voted with the Democrats for infrastructure funding.

What could be the final primary debate between Republicans running for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat devolved into a string of attacks.

The Republican-led Michigan Senate has approved a 5% increase in base funding for K-12 schools but pared back Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposals to recruit and retain teachers and didn't include her proposed $1 billion fund for school infrastructure projects.

The traditionally insular Supreme Court is about to face the full force of public pressure and abortion politics.

A Democratic legislative candidate in Michigan has won a special election for a heavily Republican seat over a GOP opponent who made controversial comments about rape, Russia’s war in Ukraine and other issues.

The Michigan Senate has overwhelmingly approved a spending bill that would fund new college scholarship program for high school graduates and increase operations funding for state universities by 11% overall.

Furious Senate Democrats are vowing to vote on legislation to protect abortion access for millions of Americans.

A Senate hearing on Wednesday is likely to produce fireworks as Republicans and Democrats square off over the role that foundations and nonprofits are playing in elections.

The bombshell leak of a draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the landmark Roe v.

Frustrated Indiana conservatives fell short in several primary races in their drive to push the Republican-controlled state Legislature further to the right and saw one of their movement’s leaders lose his reelection bid.

The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has asked three more House Republicans to voluntarily testify about their involvement in the effort to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.

We’re diving into what the Republican Party in Michigan is about right now.

Add one more group of contests to the white-hot races for Congress and governor that will dominate this year’s midterm elections: secretaries of state.

Conservatives in GOP-dominated Indiana are trying to push the Republican-controlled Legislature further to the right on issues like abortion and guns.

In Nebraska, the winner of a crowded Republican primary race for governor will be the overwhelming favorite to win in November.

Democratic leaders have announced an effort to give the Federal Trade Commission increased authority to crack down on oil and gas companies that engage in price gouging.

The ruling by New York's top court striking down Democratic-drawn congressional maps is the start of what could be a rough road for the party in redistricting.

President Joe Biden wants Congress to provide $33 billion to bolster Ukraine’s fight against Russia.

A group opposing Donald Trump’s endorsement of JD Vance in Ohio’s contentious Republican Senate primary is making the former president the target of a new ad campaign.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has assured colleagues he never asked then-President Donald Trump to resign over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.

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.

The Senate confirmed the nomination of Lael Brainard to a four-year term as vice chair of the Federal Reserve, elevating her to the Fed’s No. 2 post in the midst of the central bank’s toughest fight against inflation in four decades.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is downplaying secretly recorded remarks he made about Donald Trump shortly after last year’s attack on the Capitol.

Republicans are laying the groundwork to make Hunter Biden and his business dealings a central target of their investigative and oversight efforts.