The runoff was one of the few races this year featuring both candidates endorsed by President Trump. His picks have had mixed results in governor’s contests.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has been projected to win the GOP primary runoff for South Carolina Governor. Trump double-endorsed in the race after initially endorsing Lt. The post JUST IN: Trump Endorsed Alan Wilson Wins GOP Runoff for South Carolina Governor appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Sens. Mike Lee and Rick Scott have teed up what could be a tense, confrontational lunch Wednesday with President Trump and Senate Republicans.The two spent months pressuring Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on the SAVE America Act. Now Trump will be in the room with them.Why it matters: Trump is fixated on passing the SAVE Act to help Republicans in the midterms. But Thune is insistent that Republicans don't have the votes."There are not the votes to nuke the filibuster, and there aren't going to be 10 Democrat votes to all of a sudden support the SAVE America Act," Thune told reporters on Tuesday.SAVE would require voter ID and proof of citizenship, while imposing new restrictions on mail-in voting.Zoom in: Scott (R-Fla.) invited Trump to attend the weekly lunch put on by the conservative Senate GOP Steering Committee.Thune laughed when asked whether Scott checked with him before extending the invite. "Well, he told me he did it," Thune told reporters.Scott sent a letter to senators Monday outlining what he thinks the chamber's focus should be — including passing the SAVE America Act or parts of it, according to a copy Axios obtained.Between the lines: Senate GOP leadership has largely learned to negotiate with and work around staunch conservatives like Lee (R-Utah) and Scott. But some senators are losing patience."I never speak ill of members when they want to be professional," Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) told reporters Tuesday after accusing Lee of "naivete" or wanting "to get more likes on social media posts.""But when you do some of the bullshit [Lee has] done on social media, that's why he gets these comments out here," he added."I think Mike Lee is contributing to this fantasy that somehow it's going to happen," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told reporters.The big picture: The SAVE Act got 48 votes earlier this month when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tried adding it as an amendment to the budget reconciliation bill.Former GOP leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Tillis voted against it.The closest the GOP got was 53 votes for a narrower amendment requiring photo ID to vote. Three other amendments requiring IDs for registering to vote or requiring proof of citizenship failed to get more than 50 votes when they came up in April and June."The will is not there, and the votes aren't there. ... I'm into reality," Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) told Axios when asked about Lee and Scott's efforts.But Scott and Lee are publicly pushing leadership to use aggressive procedural tactics until the bill passes."Let's pass the SAVE America Act now," Lee replied Monday to a post from Thune's X account. "As I've been asking you to do for months, please bring it up now and announce that we will debate it until it passes."Thune retorted Tuesday: "Sometimes when something hasn't been done in 100 years there's a reason for that."
Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson are duking it out Tuesday in the Republican runoff to succeed South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R). Wilson secured a last minute endorsement from the president, who previously supported Evette ahead of the state’s June 9 primary. Evette is backed by McMaster. “I can’t hurt one…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is minimizing the significance of New York's congressional primaries, telling reporters the ideological direction of his party won't rest on a few House seats.Why it matters: It is all part of a careful balancing act in which Jeffries is trying to stop a democratic socialist takeover while avoiding open conflict with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani."I don't think we're on opposite pages. You can ask him whether he thinks we're on opposite pages. He doesn't believe we're on opposite pages," Jeffries said Tuesday when asked about his dueling endorsements with Mamdani.He added: "A handful of primaries that go in one direction or the other in a given state or two aren't going to reshape who we are as House Democrats."Driving the news: Jeffries and Mamdani are on opposite ends of two House primaries set to come to a head Tuesday night.NY-10: Mamdani is behind progressive former NYC comptroller Brad Lander in his primary challenge to Jeffries-backed Rep. Dan Goldman.NY-13: Mamdani has endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier, a left-wing challenger to Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair Adriano Espaillat, also supported by Jeffries.What they're saying: Jeffries pointed reporters to his policy of supporting his incumbents for reelection in all but the most extraordinary circumstances."There are multiple races that I've gotten involved in, supporting House Democratic incumbents, which is what I have done and will continue to do," he said.He added of Mamdani: "We have agreed to strongly disagree, and we put it in the hands of the people of New York to decide what's the best path forward."The intrigue: Jeffries gave a wink to Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in his fight with Mamdani-backed State Assembly member Claire Valdez despite not endorsing in that race.Democratic leadership hasn't intervened "by custom," he said, but "a coalition of very progressive Democrats ... and many of the unions that we've worked closely with are on one side of that race, with DSA on the other."He added that the 7th district is "the most gentrified district in the nation, by far," a nod to the establishment criticism that democratic socialists are strongest among wealthy, well-educated transplants.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has won the Republican nomination to be the state’s next governor, positioning him to take on Democratic state Rep. Jermaine Johnson in the general election. Wilson defeated Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in the Republican primary runoff after the two candidates advanced from the seven-candidate June 9 primary. With 9% […]
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Wilson defeated Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, NBC News projects, after a campaign in which President Donald Trump initially endorsed Evette and then backed Wilson, too.
Voters in Utah are heading to the polls Tuesday to vote in the state’s House primary elections. There is one open seat up from grabs after Blake Moore opted to not seek reelection in the 1st Congressional District, which now favors Democrats following court-ordered redistricting. The move set off a heated primary as Utah Democrats…