Tuesday’s election also set the stage for several major House races in Virginia and Georgia. And in Washington, Mayor Muriel Bowser won her Democratic primary and is now poised to win a third term. Here are four suggestions from Tuesday’s qualifiers and runners-up in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia and Washington: Alabama MP Mo Brooks had the backing of much of the Fox team in prime-time, a number of Conservative activists, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, a number of Conservative members of the House of Representatives. and others in the Alabama Republicans qualifying round to replace retired Sen. Richard Shelby. But he had lost Trump. The former president had backed Brooks only to cancel it later and then finally backed Brit in the second round, as soon as it became clear that she was the first. And on Tuesday, Britt – and Trump – prevailed, CNN aired. Britt, a former Selby chief executive who continued to lead the Alabama Business Council, and Brooks, a six-term lawmaker and member of the hardline House of Representatives Freedom Party, finished in the top two of the state qualifiers in May. to advance to the second round. Brooks’ strong appearance last month came as a surprise. Trump said the reason he canceled his support was because Brooks urged Republican voters to go through the 2020 election to focus on 2022 and 2024 – a deadly sin for Trump, who continues to spread lies about previous election fraud. . But Trump also fired Brooks while the lawmaker was lagging behind in opinion polls. Now, Britt is the undisputed favorite against Democrat Will Boyd in the November elections in the deep red state.
Georgia GOP voters again ignore Trump’s wishes
Weeks after Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger passed Republican challengers in the Trump-backed primaries, still angry over his rejection of his 2020 election fraud scandal, G two more candidates approved by the former President. congressional qualifying rounds on Tuesday, according to CNN forecasts. Rich McCormick, an emergency physician and retired Marine, will win the Republican nomination for Georgia’s 6th District by defeating Trump-backed lawyer Jake Evans in Tuesday’s second round of the T-shirt for Tuesday. And Mike Collins, a businessman and son of the late MP McCollins, defeated Vernon Jones, a former Republican who backed Trump in the 10th District of Georgia. Jones, a longtime ally of Trump, had initially sought to run against Kemp in the primary. Trump planned to step down from that race, paving the way for former Sen. David Perdue to become a Trump-backed Kemp challenger, while the former president backed Jones in the House race he lost Tuesday. (Perdue lost his fight to Kemp in May.) However, while Trump’s preferred candidates lost, the signal of his policy won: McCormick ran as a MAGA conservative and Collins embraced Trump’s election lies.
Bowser is preparing for a third term as mayor of DC
After winning the Democratic primary in Washington on Tuesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser is now sure to become the first DC mayor to win a third term since Marion Barry did so in 1986. (Barry would eventually serve four non-consecutive terms.) Bowser defeated DC board members Robert White and Trayon White and 2018 mayoral candidate James Butler in a race focused on violent crime. Bowser said she would increase the size of the DC police force. The nation’s capital is largely Democratic, so the party qualifiers essentially determine the winner of the mayoral race.
Mainstream House Rally matches in Virginia and Georgia
Tuesday’s election also set the stage for several competitive home games. The Virginia Republicans have selected state Sen. Jen Kiggans to face Democratic MP Elaine Luria in the 2nd District of Virginia Beach, setting the stage for one of the nation’s most competitive CNN races. Keegans, who has the backing of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and New York’s Eliz Stefanick’s political organization, as well as the National Rifle Union, was the front-runner in the by-elections. businessman Jerome Bell. The Virginia GOP also selected Yesli Vega, a Prince William County supervisor, and assistant sheriff backed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, conservative activist and wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. a wide open qualifier for the seat of the 7th District of the Democratic Republic of Abigail Spanberger in northern Virginia. The hopes of the National Republicans in the 2nd District of Southwest Georgia, represented for three decades by Democrat Sanford Bishop but considered more competitive after last year’s restructuring, were in Jeremy Hunt, a 28-year-old graduate of the US Military Academy in West Point. and a black candidate in the pluralistic black and rural neighborhood. But CNN predicted on Tuesday that Hunt had lost to Chris West, a 38-year-old lawyer and former Georgia National Guard officer who is White.
