Tag: TrumpBacked
Nebraska Lawmakers Block Trump-Backed Changes to Electoral System
The state awards an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district. Former President Donald J. Trump and allies want a “winner take all” [...]
DeSantis’s Candidate for Kentucky Governor Loses to Trump-Backed Rival
On Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida went out on a limb. On Tuesday, it snapped.A day after he swooped into the Republican primary for Kentucky gov [...]
East Palestine Crisis Tests a Trump-Backed Senator
J.D. Vance, the freshman senator from Ohio, is in the spotlight for the first time in his tenure as he responds to the train derailment and its afterm [...]
Lisa Murkowski Wins Re-election in Alaska, Beating a Trump-Backed Rival
Ms. Murkowski was the only Senate Republican up for re-election this year who voted to convict former President Donald J. Trump in his impeachment tri [...]
Voters Reject Trump-Backed Election Deniers in Several Key States
Democrats won races for top election posts in several political battlegrounds where their Republican rivals had cast doubt on the 2020 contest and sig [...]
These Trump-Backed Candidates Won’t Promise to Accept Election Results
Six Republican nominees for governor and the Senate in key midterm states, all backed by Donald Trump, would not commit to accepting the November outc [...]
Liz Cheney Loses Wyoming Primary to Trump-Backed Harriet Hageman
JACKSON, Wyo. — Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming conceded defeat to Harriet Hageman in her Republican primary on Tuesday, handing Donald J. Trump [...]
Trump-Backed Conspiracy Theorist Vies to Take Over Arizona Elections
He speaks in sober and serious tones and presents himself as a common-sense family man. When asked about his family life by one interviewer, he said h [...]
A Trump-Backed Veteran Ran Hard to the Right, Only to Be Outflanked
Joe Kent, a decorated retired Green Beret and House candidate in Washington State, is discovering just how far the modern far right will go.
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Mike Collins Beats the Trump-backed Vernon Jones in Georgia Runoff
ATLANTA — Mike Collins, the owner of a trucking company, easily won the Republican runoff election on Tuesday for Georgia’s 10th Congressional Distric [...]
Trump-Backed Republicans Take on mainstream conservatives in South Carolina and Nevada primaries.
Representatives Tom Rice and Nancy Mace of South Carolina were hoping to avert defeat on Tuesday at the hands of Republican primary challengers endors [...]
Tom Rice Loses South Carolina Primary to Trump-Backed Rival
Representative Tom Rice, a staunch conservative who voted to impeach former President Donald J. Trump for fomenting the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, [...]
Brian Kemp trounces Trump-backed David Perdue in a Republican primary battle for Georgia governor.
ATLANTA — In a landslide victory that represented a resounding rebuke of Donald J. Trump, Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia won the Republican nomination for [...]
Trump-Backed Morgan Ortagus Is Removed From Tennessee House Primary
“We don’t want carpetbaggers coming in here with lots of money,” Mr. Niceley told a local television station last month. He also told NBC News that he [...]
Voice of America journalists: Trump-backed CEO “failing” US
The tenure of the Steve Bannon ally who President Donald Trump appointed to run the huge international community of stories businesses operated [...]