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...And there are signs that voters — especially independents who make up a larger share of the Arizona electorate than either of the main parties — could turn away from Republican candidates over abortion....
...This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Swamp Notes — What’s the Republican party’s position on abortion?’...
...Ruben Gallego, the Democratic congressman who is running for the US Senate in Arizona, said his Republican opponent Kari Lake and other “extremist politicians” were “forcing themselves into doctors’ offices...
...A $95bn US aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan is set for a final vote on Saturday afternoon after Democratic lawmakers backed the plan put forward by the House of Representatives’ Republican Speaker...
...Unions and even some members of Biden’s Democratic party have been critical of the White House move this year to halt new exports of liquefied natural gas, saying it could hurt local industry....
...So yes, I agree with you, Rana: a law passed before Arizona was even a state that all but bans abortion will undoubtedly energise Democrats and the libertarian wing of Arizona’s Republican party in November...
...“Biden has had the benefit of leading his party and all its apparatus.” The prosecutions against Trump helped him in the Republican presidential primary, as even his rivals came to his defence....
...“In both Nevada and Arizona, Trump’s election denialism has become the primary plank of the Republican party platform, putting them at odds with a large number of independent and swing voters,” the aide...
...The Democratic and Republican nominees are joined by the dynastic Robert F Kennedy Jr and leftist academic Cornel West running as independents, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein....
...Biden has also come under fire from parts of the Democratic party for his support for Israel during its war in Gaza....
...Republican party, told the FT’s Christopher Grimes....
...[Free to read] Trump’s allies are brainstorming how to elevate third-party candidates in swing states to deter would-be Biden voters....
...Sonja Hutson Now, with a little help from Democratic party donors, he’s the GOP nominee for Ohio’s Senate seat....
...After the two parties’ nominees are chosen and the general election campaign begins in earnest, the ad battle is expected to shift to battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania...
...“American voters know that Donald Trump and the Republican party overturned Roe vs Wade,” said Timmaraju, referring to the legal precedent protecting abortion rights prior to 2022....
...Two polls on Sunday showed Joe Biden trailing Donald Trump as concerns over the economy and splits within the Democratic party over the Israel-Hamas war drag down the US president’s 2024 re-election prospects...
...Half a mile away at the Maverick County Democratic party headquarters, local party chair Juanita Martinez juggles calls from her roster of candidates as she pushes back on disquiet over Biden’s policies....
...The jockeying of the Republican presidential candidates and the rise of climate-sceptic Johnson to the head of the party in the House also mark a shift within the Republican party itself....
...Barkan’s profile grew in 2017 after he confronted Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake on a flight to Phoenix that, by chance, both men were on....
...’s failure to back the second impeachment process; and the “lawfare” strategy pursued by zealous Democratic party prosecutors who have turned Trump into a political martyr....
...polling in many cases ahead of the current Democratic President Joe Biden....
...Some say they are a Republican version of the Democratic party’s “squad” of leftwing representatives....
...He may also have to grapple with a third-party candidacy that could split the vote in unpredictable ways....
...But Ed Goeas, a Republican strategist and pollster, says the party’s candidates are trying to exploit an “underlying weakness” with Harris and the role she plays....
...The vast, democratic success of the Wannabe took Cox by surprise....
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