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By Eric Bradner, CNN Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will overcome a Republican primary challenge from US Rep. Jody Hice, a Donald Trump ally whose campaign was centered on false claims about the 2020 election, CNN projects. Raffensperger’s victory caps a Georgia primary election in which Republican voters roundly rejected Trump’s attempts at retribution

By Maeve Reston, CNN Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will defeat Trump-backed primary challengers, CNN projected Tuesday — a blow to the former President’s efforts to punish them for refusing to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election results. The losses of election deniers backed by Trump in the Peach

By Eric Bradner, CNN Georgia Republicans have nominated former football star Herschel Walker to take on Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, CNN projects, in what’s expected to be one of the most important US Senate races of the 2022 midterm elections. Walker, 60, who was urged to run by former President Donald Trump, is a political

CNN, POOL, GETTY IMAGES, SENATE TV, REV RAPHAEL WARNOCK, WJCL, WSB By Eric Bradner, CNN Georgia Republicans have nominated former football star Herschel Walker to take on Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, CNN projects, in what’s expected to be one of the most important US Senate races of the 2022 midterm elections. Walker, 60, who was

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Five Republican candidates for Michigan governor could be deemed ineligible to appear on the primary ballot after the Michigan elections bureau found invalid signatures on their nomination petitions. The development could scramble the fast-approaching primary on August 2 and winnow the crowded field of 10 Republicans jockeying for the nomination to

WXYZ By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Five Republican candidates for Michigan governor could be deemed ineligible to appear on the primary ballot after the Michigan elections bureau found invalid signatures on their nomination petitions. The development could scramble the fast-approaching primary on August 2 and winnow the crowded field of 10 Republicans jockeying for the nomination

WISH By Devan Cole, CNN Indiana banned transgender women and girls from competing on public school sports teams consistent with their gender after the state’s Republican-led legislature voted Tuesday to override a veto issued earlier this year by their GOP governor in order to enact the controversial law. Indiana’s House of Representatives voted to override

By Devan Cole, CNN Indiana banned transgender women and girls from competing on public school sports teams consistent with their gender after the state’s Republican-led legislature voted Tuesday to override a veto issued earlier this year by their GOP governor in order to enact the controversial law. Indiana’s House of Representatives voted to override Gov.

By Phil Gast, CNN One led the South in a war against the United States. Another objected to welcoming African Americans into White society. All fought on behalf of the cause of enslaving Black people. The proposal announced on Tuesday by a congressionally appointed commission that would replace the names of Confederate commanders from nine

CNN By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is being swept into another sensitive political matter, the latest in a series of headline-grabbing incidents for an official whose day-to-day duties typically render the position obscure. The Republican who serves as Georgia’s top elections official on Friday accepted a state judge’s recommendation that

By Marshall Cohen, CNN A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a post-Civil War amnesty law doesn’t protect future insurrectionists, a legal victory for the liberal activists who have tried to disqualify Republican lawmakers based on their role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of

By Oren Liebermann, Devan Cole, Barbara Starr and Ellie Kaufman, CNN The congressional naming commission which was set up to remove Confederate names from military bases has unveiled proposals to rename nine bases on Tuesday. The proposed names include women, African-American, Native American and Latino service members, a nod to the diverse ranks the US

CNN By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A group of more than 80 senators across both parties have committed to expediting the approval of Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership applications in the Senate and called on President Joe Biden to do the same in the executive branch. In the letter to Biden sent Tuesday, the senators also