Month: August 2022

Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes has won Wisconsin’s Democratic Senate primary, NBC News projects, officially setting up a pivotal state showdown with Republican Ron Johnson in a race that could determine control of the Senate. Barnes’ victory was all but certain after his three main competitors dropped out of the race in recent weeks. Barnes and the groups supporting him have already targeted Johnson, who also easily won his primary, with a barrage of television and digital announcements in anticipation of the November game. Wisconsin’s Senate race will be one of the closest and most closely watched in the country, and…

Some voters in New York’s 23rd Congressional District will vote in two congressional races on August 23. The race between Nick Langworthy and Carl Paladino for the Republican nomination for the new NY-23 has been well publicized. The winner of that primary will face Democrat Max Della Pia in the November general election. The other race is a special election for current NY-23. The winner will end the term of former U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, who left office in May to work for a PR firm’s lobbying group. There are two candidates for the chance to finish Reed’s term, which…

BEIJING (AP) – China on Wednesday reaffirmed its threat to use military force to bring self-ruled Taiwan under its control, amid threats of Chinese military exercises that have raised tensions between the sides to new heights. highest in years. The statement issued by the cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office and its news department followed nearly a week of missile launches and incursions into Taiwan’s waters and airspace by warships and aircraft the Chinese Air Force. The actions have disrupted flights and shipping in a region crucial to global supply chains, prompting sharp condemnation from the US, Japan and others. An English…

Meanwhile, in Minnesota, Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of the progressive “squad,” survived a surprisingly close contest for her Minneapolis House seat. In Vermont, state Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint is on track to become the first. woman to represent the state in Congress. And in Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont and Sen. Richard Blumenthal swept their GOP rivals in re-election races they are expected to win in November. Here are four takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries: Trump wins as Wisconsin Republican establishment falls Former President Donald Trump again demonstrated his influence over the Republican Party on Tuesday as Trump-backed construction…

Tim Michels’ defeat of former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch comes as Republicans seek to unseat Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in November in a critical battleground state that went from Trump to Joe Biden in 2020. Michels, a construction company owner and political neophyte, won Trump’s endorsement by more aggressively expanding on the former president’s 2020 campaign lies, notably in the intra-party debate over whether Wisconsin should seek to decertify the victory of Biden there for almost two years. Kleefisch was widely considered the favorite at the start of the campaign. She spent eight years as former Gov. Scott Walker’s second-in-command…

A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation led to the lynching of black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an outstanding warrant and a recent memoir disclosed by the woman, a prosecutor said Tuesday. What you need to know A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation led to the lynching of black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago. Tuesday’s news comes on the heels of revelations about an outstanding warrant and a newly released memoir by the woman Leflore County District Attorney Dewayne…