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Politics tamfitronics From Boebert’s fate to control of Congress, much at stake in Colorado primaries
Who is the opposite of Jamaal Bowman? A good case could be made for that person being Lauren Boeberta far-right Republican congresswoman from Colorado who is on the other side of pretty much every issue from the progressive New Yorker.
But there’s one thing they have in common: both will be fighting to return to Congress in today’s primaries, though Boebert appears to have a better shot than her Democratic counterpart.
After almost losing re-election to a Democrat in 2022 and then being tarred by a series of personal scandals that put her further at risk of being dumped by voters, Boebert has moved to an even more staunchly Republican district than the one she previously represented, an appears to have a path to victory.
Her race will be one of several in Colorado that could play a part in deciding whether Republicans are able to maintain their majority in the House of Representatives in the forthcoming Congress, which kicks off in January 2025.
Here’s more from the Guardian’s Lois Beckett on why today’s primaries in the Centennial state are so important:
Colorado’s primary elections on Tuesday will choose the winners in several bitter intraparty fights between the state’s Republicansincluding in two competitive House districts that could help determine control of Congress in November.
Despite a series of personal scandals, Lauren Boebert, a hard-right Republican who narrowly avoided defeat in 2022, is favored to win out over a crowded field of other Republican primary candidates in Ken Buck’s former congressional district, the fourth, which leans more heavily Republican.
In Boebert’s former district, Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came within 546 votes of defeating her in 2022, is likely to face a tighter race against the winner of the Republican primary there. Voters in the district supported Trump with 53% of the vote in 2016 and 2020.
Frisch’s potential opponents include Jeff Hurd, who is seen as a more old-school and mainstream Republican, and Ron Hanks, a self-described “pro-Trump warrior” who attended the 6 January 2021 rally that preceded the attack on the US Capitol and went on to claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Hanks has said publicly that he did not participate in the breaching of the US Capitol. His Republican colleagues declined to censure him for his actions on that day, Colorado Public Radio reported in 2021, and his current primary bid for Congress has been endorsed by the state Republican party.
Colorado’s most competitive US House race this fall will probably be in the eighth congressional district, where first-term congresswoman Yadira Caraveo is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. Her Republican opponent will be either state representative Gabe Evans, an army veteran and former police officer, or former state representative Janak Joshi, a retired physician who has the state party’s endorsement.
Colorado’s primary landscape was reshaped by the sudden resignation this March of Buck, a former Republican congressman and staunch conservative. Buck cited his frustration with his own party in his resignation, telling CNN: “Instead of having decorum – instead of acting in a professional manner – this place has really devolved into this bickering and nonsense.”
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The race for its Senate seat is perhaps the most important of the day, as it will determine whether Republican senator and Trump foe Mitt Romneywho is retiring, is replaced by moderate congressman John Curtisor one of several challengers who have vowed to support the ex-president’s preferred policies. Curtis is perhaps most notable for being one of the few Republicans in Congress who supports some measures to fight the climate crisis.
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Elsewhere on the ballot, Utah Republicans will decide whether to renominate governor Spencer Coxanother moderate, and who should take over Curtis’s seat in Congress.
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Here’s more from the Associated Press on what we can expect from the Beehive state (yes, that’s it’s nickname):
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The primary duel between GOP factions will test whether Trump’s influence and appeal have grown among Republican voters in Utah, a rare Republican stronghold that half-heartedly embraced the former president in past elections.
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A suburban mayor, Trent Staggs, who rode Trump’s endorsement to a GOP convention nomination for Romney’s seat, is hoping it will also propel him past U.S. Rep. John Curtis, the more moderate front-runner in Tuesday’s primary.
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Curtis has pitched himself as the alternative to Staggs, the mayor Riverton, and two other contenders who have spent much of the race arguing over whose policy positions most closely align with Trump’s.
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Curtis, the former mayor of Provo who started out as a county-level Democratic Party official, is the only Republican in the race who has not outright endorsed Trump’s reelection bid. He has been compared to Romney for pushing back against more extreme members of his party, particularly on climate change.
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Another candidate for the seat, former state House Speaker Brad Wilson, has the financial advantage after loaning his campaign $3 million. He was considered a strong contender before a loss to Staggs at the April convention relegated him to a long shot in the primary. Jason Walton, who has pitched himself as a businessman in the style of Trump, is also running.
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Who is the opposite of Jamaal Bowman? A good case could be made for that person being Lauren Boeberta far-right Republican congresswoman from Colorado who is on the other side of pretty much every issue from the progressive New Yorker.
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But there’s one thing they have in common: both will be fighting to return to Congress in today’s primaries, though Boebert appears to have a better shot than her Democratic counterpart.
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After almost losing re-election to a Democrat in 2022 and then being tarred by a series of personal scandals that put her further at risk of being dumped by voters, Boebert has moved to an even more staunchly Republican district than the one she previously represented, an appears to have a path to victory.
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Her race will be one of several in Colorado that could play a part in deciding whether Republicans are able to maintain their majority in the House of Representatives in the forthcoming Congress, which kicks off in January 2025.
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Here’s more from the Guardian’s Lois Beckett on why today’s primaries in the Centennial state are so important:
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Colorado’s primary elections on Tuesday will choose the winners in several bitter intraparty fights between the state’s Republicansincluding in two competitive House districts that could help determine control of Congress in November.
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Despite a series of personal scandals, Lauren Boebert, a hard-right Republican who narrowly avoided defeat in 2022, is favored to win out over a crowded field of other Republican primary candidates in Ken Buck’s former congressional district, the fourth, which leans more heavily Republican.
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In Boebert’s former district, Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came within 546 votes of defeating her in 2022, is likely to face a tighter race against the winner of the Republican primary there. Voters in the district supported Trump with 53% of the vote in 2016 and 2020.
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Frisch’s potential opponents include Jeff Hurd, who is seen as a more old-school and mainstream Republican, and Ron Hanks, a self-described “pro-Trump warrior” who attended the 6 January 2021 rally that preceded the attack on the US Capitol and went on to claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Hanks has said publicly that he did not participate in the breaching of the US Capitol. His Republican colleagues declined to censure him for his actions on that day, Colorado Public Radio reported in 2021, and his current primary bid for Congress has been endorsed by the state Republican party.
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Colorado’s most competitive US House race this fall will probably be in the eighth congressional district, where first-term congresswoman Yadira Caraveo is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. Her Republican opponent will be either state representative Gabe Evans, an army veteran and former police officer, or former state representative Janak Joshi, a retired physician who has the state party’s endorsement.
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Colorado’s primary landscape was reshaped by the sudden resignation this March of Buck, a former Republican congressman and staunch conservative. Buck cited his frustration with his own party in his resignation, telling CNN: “Instead of having decorum – instead of acting in a professional manner – this place has really devolved into this bickering and nonsense.”
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Jamaal Bowman may be the first member of the Squad group of progressive Democrats to be ousted from office, as polls show him trailing centrist George Latimer in a race that has become the most expensive House primary ever.
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Looming over the New York lawmaker’s primary challenge is his opposition to aiding Israel, driven by concerns over civilian deaths in its invasion of Gaza. That has sparked the ire of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has poured millions into defeating Bowman, who has himself raised millions more to keep his seat.
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Polling of such small areas as Bowman’s suburban New York City congressional district can be unreliable, but one of the surveys that is out there shows Bowman trailing Latimer by a big margin. Here’s the latest on the clash, from the Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt:
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Voters will render their verdict on Tuesday in what has become the most expensive House primary in history, as a progressive incumbent Democrat faces a primary challenge from a candidate backed by pro-Israel groups.
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Jamaal Bowman, the congressman for New York’s 16th district, has faced a vigorous challenge from George Latimer after Bowman criticized Israel’s war on Gaza.
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) and an affiliated group have spent almost $15m to defeat Bowman, a former school principal elected in 2020, and the organization has said it will spend $100m this year on trying to oust politicians it deems to be anti-Israel.
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Local polling can be unreliable, but a survey in early June had Bowman trailing Latimer, a longtime local politician and vocal advocate for Israel, by 17 points – suggesting that Aipac’s strategy might be working.
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Bowman, whose heavily Democratic district includes parts of the Bronx in New York City and half of Westchester county, just to the north, appeared with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders at a rally on Sundayas progressive Democrats launched a last-ditch attempt to drive people to the polls.
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Good morning, US politics blog readers. Today is primary day in New York, Colorado and Utah, where voters will cast ballots in races that could help determine the ideological bent of the next Congress. The outcomes of these contests could, in turn, determine how contentious issues such as military aid to Ukraine are handled by lawmakers next year, and how prone the next Congress is to getting into standoffs that result in government shutdowns – a favorite tactic of recalcitrant Congress members in recent years. Of all the offices up for grabs, there are two that will be getting a lot of attention. In New York City’s suburbs, progressive Democrat Jamaal Bowman is fighting for his seat against centrist George Latimerin a race where Bowman’s opposition to aiding Israel has become a major issue. In rural Colorado, far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert is looking to win the Republican primary in a different, more conservative district than the one she currently holds, to shore up support rocked by a series of missteps and questionable deeds.
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South Carolina will also hold runoffs today, and we’ll get the first results there, beginning at 7pm ET. We’ll tell you more about the races to be decided as the day goes on.
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Politics tamfitronics Utah Republicans search for their Romney replacement in Senate primary
Utah is one of those deep-red bastions in the United States, where the winner of the Republican primary is seen as almost certain to win the general election. That makes today’s primaries in the state all the more important, as they pit candidates aligned with Donald Trump against those who are less friendly to the former president, and could frustrate his agenda, should he return to the White House.
The race for its Senate seat is perhaps the most important of the day, as it will determine whether Republican senator and Trump foe Mitt Romneywho is retiring, is replaced by moderate congressman John Curtisor one of several challengers who have vowed to support the ex-president’s preferred policies. Curtis is perhaps most notable for being one of the few Republicans in Congress who supports some measures to fight the climate crisis.
Elsewhere on the ballot, Utah Republicans will decide whether to renominate governor Spencer Coxanother moderate, and who should take over Curtis’s seat in Congress.
Here’s more from the Associated Press on what we can expect from the Beehive state (yes, that’s it’s nickname):
The primary duel between GOP factions will test whether Trump’s influence and appeal have grown among Republican voters in Utah, a rare Republican stronghold that half-heartedly embraced the former president in past elections.
A suburban mayor, Trent Staggs, who rode Trump’s endorsement to a GOP convention nomination for Romney’s seat, is hoping it will also propel him past U.S. Rep. John Curtis, the more moderate front-runner in Tuesday’s primary.
Curtis has pitched himself as the alternative to Staggs, the mayor Riverton, and two other contenders who have spent much of the race arguing over whose policy positions most closely align with Trump’s.
Curtis, the former mayor of Provo who started out as a county-level Democratic Party official, is the only Republican in the race who has not outright endorsed Trump’s reelection bid. He has been compared to Romney for pushing back against more extreme members of his party, particularly on climate change.
Another candidate for the seat, former state House Speaker Brad Wilson, has the financial advantage after loaning his campaign $3 million. He was considered a strong contender before a loss to Staggs at the April convention relegated him to a long shot in the primary. Jason Walton, who has pitched himself as a businessman in the style of Trump, is also running.
Meanwhile, in Florida, a hearing that could determine the trajectory of Donald Trump’s prosecution on charges of concealing classified documents is ongoing, with the former president’s lawyers making potentially pivotal arguments. Here’s more, from the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell:
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case for retaining classified documents is expected on Tuesday to weigh a brazen attempt by the former president to prevent special counsel prosecutors from using some of the most incriminating evidence against him at trial.
The Trump lawyers will first argue at a sealed hearing that prosecutors’ access to transcripts of voice memos made by Trump’s ex-lawyer Evan Corcoran – which constitute key evidence of obstruction – should be entirely revoked, according to people familiar with the matter.
And the Trump lawyers will later argue to the US district judge Aileen Cannon that prosecutors should be barred from using the 101 classified documents the FBI found at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 because the search warrant used to seize them was improperly obtained.
The two-part request in federal district court in Fort Pierce, Florida, amounts to an audacious attempt by Trump’s lawyers to suppress evidence that would face serious difficulty in front of any other judge.
Donald Trump has been handing out endorsements left and right in congressional primaries across the country, but there’s one big choice he has not yet publicly made. That would be his pick of running mate, but as the Guardian’s David Smith reports, there have been some hints as to who he may choose:
The guessing game is nearly over. Donald Trumpthe presumptive Republican nominee, has said he has made a decision about who his running mate will be in November – but has yet to tell anyone who it is. Trump is expected to make the announcement any time between now and the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, starting on 15 July.
Once again, the Republican primaries demonstrated Trump’s strength among white men in rural areas, leading to speculation that he will choose a woman or person of colour to broaden his appeal in November. But media reports suggest that he is leaning towards North Dakota’s governor, Doug Burgum, and the Ohio senator JD Vance – both white men. Then again, Trump loves nothing more than suspense and the element of surprise.
Here are some factors to consider and a look at the likely contenders.
Donald Trump’s influence looms large in Republican politics, with Lauren Boebert’s primary race no exception.
The Colorado congresswoman has been eager to point out that she has the former president’s endorsement:
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert is a Proven Conservative and Effective Leader who delivers for Colorado, and our America First agenda. She has led the fight to Impeach Joe Biden, Stop Illegal Immigration, Defend the Second Amendment, Protect our Wonderful Ranchers and… pic.twitter.com/xnB9HAQwD9
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Congresswoman Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert is a Proven Conservative and Effective Leader who delivers for Colorado, and our America First agenda. She has led the fight to Impeach Joe Biden, Stop Illegal Immigration, Defend the Second Amendment, Protect our Wonderful Ranchers and… pic.twitter.com/xnB9HAQwD9
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) June 22, 2024
Politics tamfitronics From Boebert’s fate to control of Congress, much at stake in Colorado primaries
Who is the opposite of Jamaal Bowman? A good case could be made for that person being Lauren Boeberta far-right Republican congresswoman from Colorado who is on the other side of pretty much every issue from the progressive New Yorker.
But there’s one thing they have in common: both will be fighting to return to Congress in today’s primaries, though Boebert appears to have a better shot than her Democratic counterpart.
After almost losing re-election to a Democrat in 2022 and then being tarred by a series of personal scandals that put her further at risk of being dumped by voters, Boebert has moved to an even more staunchly Republican district than the one she previously represented, an appears to have a path to victory.
Her race will be one of several in Colorado that could play a part in deciding whether Republicans are able to maintain their majority in the House of Representatives in the forthcoming Congress, which kicks off in January 2025.
Here’s more from the Guardian’s Lois Beckett on why today’s primaries in the Centennial state are so important:
Colorado’s primary elections on Tuesday will choose the winners in several bitter intraparty fights between the state’s Republicansincluding in two competitive House districts that could help determine control of Congress in November.
Despite a series of personal scandals, Lauren Boebert, a hard-right Republican who narrowly avoided defeat in 2022, is favored to win out over a crowded field of other Republican primary candidates in Ken Buck’s former congressional district, the fourth, which leans more heavily Republican.
In Boebert’s former district, Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came within 546 votes of defeating her in 2022, is likely to face a tighter race against the winner of the Republican primary there. Voters in the district supported Trump with 53% of the vote in 2016 and 2020.
Frisch’s potential opponents include Jeff Hurd, who is seen as a more old-school and mainstream Republican, and Ron Hanks, a self-described “pro-Trump warrior” who attended the 6 January 2021 rally that preceded the attack on the US Capitol and went on to claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Hanks has said publicly that he did not participate in the breaching of the US Capitol. His Republican colleagues declined to censure him for his actions on that day, Colorado Public Radio reported in 2021, and his current primary bid for Congress has been endorsed by the state Republican party.
Colorado’s most competitive US House race this fall will probably be in the eighth congressional district, where first-term congresswoman Yadira Caraveo is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. Her Republican opponent will be either state representative Gabe Evans, an army veteran and former police officer, or former state representative Janak Joshi, a retired physician who has the state party’s endorsement.
Colorado’s primary landscape was reshaped by the sudden resignation this March of Buck, a former Republican congressman and staunch conservative. Buck cited his frustration with his own party in his resignation, telling CNN: “Instead of having decorum – instead of acting in a professional manner – this place has really devolved into this bickering and nonsense.”
Over the weekend, some of the most prominent progressive Democrats in the country rallied to Jamaal Bowman’s aid in the Bronx, and the Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt was there. We’ll find out later today if it is enough for him to win his primary:
It was one of the hottest days of the year in New York City on Saturday – but as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the stage in the Bronx, you wouldn’t know it.
At a rally to support Jamaal Bowman, the progressive Democrat facing a primary campaign that has seen pro-Israel lobbying groups pump more than $15m into the race, Ocasio-Cortez was amped up.
Bowman’s fellow progressive member of Congress – one of America’s most recognizable politicians – sprinted on to the stage and jumped around to a Cardi B track, drawing cheers and applause from the crowd.
“Let’s go, Bronx!” she shouted.
“Are you ready to fight? Are you ready to take this borough back? Are you ready to win this country back? Are you ready to fight for peace on earth and ceasefire in Gaza?”
The reception from the crowd of more than 1,000 people suggested that the crowd was very ready.
Politics tamfitronics Progressive Democrat Jamaal Bowman makes potential last stand in New York primary
Jamaal Bowman may be the first member of the Squad group of progressive Democrats to be ousted from office, as polls show him trailing centrist George Latimer in a race that has become the most expensive House primary ever.
Looming over the New York lawmaker’s primary challenge is his opposition to aiding Israel, driven by concerns over civilian deaths in its invasion of Gaza. That has sparked the ire of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has poured millions into defeating Bowman, who has himself raised millions more to keep his seat.
Polling of such small areas as Bowman’s suburban New York City congressional district can be unreliable, but one of the surveys that is out there shows Bowman trailing Latimer by a big margin. Here’s the latest on the clash, from the Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt:
Voters will render their verdict on Tuesday in what has become the most expensive House primary in history, as a progressive incumbent Democrat faces a primary challenge from a candidate backed by pro-Israel groups.
Jamaal Bowman, the congressman for New York’s 16th district, has faced a vigorous challenge from George Latimer after Bowman criticized Israel’s war on Gaza.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) and an affiliated group have spent almost $15m to defeat Bowman, a former school principal elected in 2020, and the organization has said it will spend $100m this year on trying to oust politicians it deems to be anti-Israel.
Local polling can be unreliable, but a survey in early June had Bowman trailing Latimer, a longtime local politician and vocal advocate for Israel, by 17 points – suggesting that Aipac’s strategy might be working.
Bowman, whose heavily Democratic district includes parts of the Bronx in New York City and half of Westchester county, just to the north, appeared with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders at a rally on Sundayas progressive Democrats launched a last-ditch attempt to drive people to the polls.
Politics tamfitronics Voters to decide fates of progressive and far-right lawmakers as states hold primaries nationwide
Good morning, US politics blog readers. Today is primary day in New York, Colorado and Utah, where voters will cast ballots in races that could help determine the ideological bent of the next Congress. The outcomes of these contests could, in turn, determine how contentious issues such as military aid to Ukraine are handled by lawmakers next year, and how prone the next Congress is to getting into standoffs that result in government shutdowns – a favorite tactic of recalcitrant Congress members in recent years. Of all the offices up for grabs, there are two that will be getting a lot of attention. In New York City’s suburbs, progressive Democrat Jamaal Bowman is fighting for his seat against centrist George Latimerin a race where Bowman’s opposition to aiding Israel has become a major issue. In rural Colorado, far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert is looking to win the Republican primary in a different, more conservative district than the one she currently holds, to shore up support rocked by a series of missteps and questionable deeds.
South Carolina will also hold runoffs today, and we’ll get the first results there, beginning at 7pm ET. We’ll tell you more about the races to be decided as the day goes on.
Here’s what else is happening:
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Joe Biden remains at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland, with nothing public on his schedule. Reports say that he has been spending his time preparing for his debate against Donald Trump on Thursday.
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Julian Assangethe founder of WikiLeaks, is on his way to Saipan to complete the terms of the plea agreement that will end his lengthy legal saga. Follow our live blog for the latest.
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Two years agoCongress passed a bipartisan law making some modest gun safety reforms in the wake of the Uvalde shooting. Gun violence remains common and deadly in the United States.
