Democrats face a significant challenge in Michigan's Senate primary, with U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens competing against progressive Abdul El-Sayed. The tight race, still unresolved early Wednesday, tests the party's willingness to move away from moderate candidates. Winning this seat is crucial for Democrats to regain control of the Senate. Meanwhile, Republicans chose their nominee for Michigan governor, going with Trump-endorsed John James over wealthy outsider Perry Johnson. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is trying to remain influential, spending heavily in Michigan to support Stevens. In Virginia, Democrats aim to recover seats after a failed redistricting effort. Primaries in other states will shape November's matchups.
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Virginia Democrats picked establishment candidates to take on Republican incumbents in two congressional districts the party hopes to flip in November. It's part of a broader fight for control of the U.S. House after Democrats’ failed redistricting initiative. The commonwealth typically holds its primaries in June but this year moved them to August to accommodate a push approved by voters to redraw congressional districts. The effort was later overturned by the state Supreme Court. Shannon Taylor, a prosecutor, and former congresswoman Elaine Luria are the party's nominees in the 1st and 2nd Congressional District, races that will be among the most closely watched in the nation.
Missouri’s top election official has rejected a petition for a statewide referendum on new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump. Supporters submitted hundreds of thousands of signatures to try to force a November election on a new U.S. House map approved by the Republican-led state Legislature. But Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins asserted Tuesday that the petition is unconstitutional because congressional redistricting plans cannot be subject to voter referendums. A group backing the referendum effort plans to challenge Hoskins’ decision in court. Missouri was the second Republican-led state, after Texas, to respond to Trump’s call to redraw congressional districts to the GOP’s advantage.
Maryland voters will decide in November whether to clear the way for a new congressional map that would favor Democrats in all eight of the state’s U.S. House districts. If voters approve the constitutional amendment that lawmakers voted Tuesday to put on the ballot, a redrawn map could kick in for 2028. Democrats now hold seven of the House seats. Maryland is moving more slowly than the 10 states that have passed new district boundaries for this year’s elections. States usually make new maps only after new Census counts are released early each decade.
Maryland lawmakers approve ballot measure for voters to clear way for new congressional maps that would boost Democrats.
Missouri election chief rejects petition seeking a public vote on new congressional districts backed by Trump.
The Republican leader of the Indiana Senate is giving up his position after six GOP incumbents who opposed President Donald Trump on his congressional redistricting push in the state lost their primaries. Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray drew the ire of Trump in December when he voted against the redistricting plan after saying for weeks that it didn’t have enough support to pass. Bray announced Friday that he would not seek reelection to the post when Senate Republicans choose their leaders in November. His current Senate term runs through 2028 and he will remain in office, albeit not in a leadership position.
Vance's visit is at least the third time he has talked to Indiana Republican lawmakers about the possibility.
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The request comes about three weeks after a circuit judge ruled that the congressional and state House maps crafted by the GOP-dominated legislature did not violate the state constitution.
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Holcomb said in a statement he believed that legislators completed the redistricting work in “an orderly and transparent way."