Today, on the eve of another round of key primaries, former vice president Mike Pence is slated to campaign with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), who faces a primary challenge from David Perdue after the former senator was recruited to run by former president Donald Trump. Trump plans to hold a “tele-rally” for Perdue on Monday night. The race, in which Kemp is heavily favored, could be among Trump’s biggest defeats of the cycle. On Tuesday, there are also races on the ballot in Alabama and Arkansas, as well as runoffs in Texas.
Meanwhile, President Biden continues his first trip to Asia since becoming president. In a news conference Monday, Biden said the United States would defend Taiwan militarily if it came under attack by China, comments the White House immediately sought to clarify. He also said he did not believe a quarantine to prevent the spread of monkeypox in the United States would be necessary.
When Rep. Mo Brooks (R) was disowned by former president Donald Trump in March, many thought his campaign for the GOP nomination in the Alabama Senate race was over.
Brooks is running to replace retiring Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R) and, in doing so, is rallying the support of Republicans who are delicately working to stake competing claims to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement without antagonizing the former president himself, writes Isaac Arnsdorf.
The Republican lawmaker is promoting himself as a top backer of Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020...
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Education Association (IEA) is working to pass Senate Bill 2914 this session, a bill that would put an end to a long-time practice of school administrators keeping accus...