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The Associated Press projects that Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan will survive a Republican primary runoff election challenge by David Covey. Phelan’s victory in a state House district east of Houston is seen as a political setback for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and former President Donald Trump, and to a lesser degree for Gov. Greg Abbott. Phelan oversaw the …

Former President Trump endorsed a primary challenger against Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good, R-Va., on Tuesday, saying the congressman’s attempts to make amends with him were “too late.” “Bob Good is BAD FOR VIRGINIA, AND BAD FOR THE USA,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. Both Good and his primary challenger, Virginia state Sen. John McGuire, recently traveled to …

Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan is warning Republicans in Washington, D.C., that he won’t be a reliable vote if Maryland chooses to send him to the Capitol. In a new TV ad aired Tuesday, the former Maryland governor stressed his bipartisan bona fides. “In the Senate, Republicans can’t count on my vote. But then again, neither can Democrats,” he said. …

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is preparing to nominate President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party nominees via virtual proceedings before Ohio’s Aug. 7 deadline, and before its in-person convention this summer in Chicago. Ohio requires its parties to certify presidential candidates at least 90 days before Election Day. The DNC won’t certify Biden until …

State Rep. Craig Goldman secured the Republican nomination for the open 12th Congressional District in Texas in a runoff Tuesday, a seat opening up due to the retirement of Rep. Kay Granger, according to the Associated Press. Goldman won in a runoff after neither candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the March primary. Granger has held the …

Jay Furman defeated Lazaro Garza in the Republican runoff primary race to decide who will square off against Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, who was indicted by the federal government on conspiracy and bribery charges earlier this month. The GOP runoff primary for the 28th Congressional District was called Tuesday night for the winner, just after 8 p.m. local time Tuesday …

Former President Trump reportedly told a private gathering of New York donors earlier this month that he will stop the “radical revolution” happening at American college campuses if elected president again.The presumptive Republican nominee also vowed that he would throw foreign students protesting against Israel “out of the country,” The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing donors who spoke on …

Multimedia mogul Charlamagne tha God said he is in lockstep with liberal Hollywood icon Robert De Niro and acknowledged that he, too, suffers from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” De Niro made a surprise appearance outside the Manhattan courthouse Tuesday on behalf of the Biden campaign to bash former President Trump, who he referred to as a “tyrant,” as closing arguments in …

FIRST ON FOX: A Republican looking to flip a House seat from blue to red in Indiana says his Democratic challenger has abandoned the “hardworking” constituents of his district and aligned himself with “the far left” and the “D.C. political machine” after joining Congress more than three years ago. Randy Niemeyer, the Republican nominee to represent Indiana’s 1st Congressional District …

New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik sent a letter to New York officials on Tuesday arguing there may have been “misconduct” within the New York Supreme Court system to ensure Judge Juan Merchan presided over the unprecedented NY v. Trump trial. “One cannot help but suspect that the ‘random selection’ at work in the assignment of Acting Justice Merchan, a …