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They have lost a crucial seat in their razor-thin House majority, putting the squeeze on their ability to pass legislation for the rest of the year.

Republican Mayra Flores will become the first Republican to represent her South Texas district in modern history.ĭemocrats’ nightmare here is twofold. House Republicans made huge inroads in their effort to turn South Texas red, capturing a heavily Latino - and historically Democratic - district on Tuesday night. And in a sign that Republicans will not likely abandon the culture wars anytime soon, the GOP is up with ads criticizing Mills for a video that was on the state Department of Education website of a teacher explaining transgender identity to kindergarteners. LePage is pummeling Mills - as Trump is Biden - over the state of the economy. And with the primary settled, we’re already getting a look there at how Republicans will run against an incumbent chief executive.

But the cost of living and inflation are weighing just as heavily on Mainers as they are voters nationwide. Mills has a better public approval rating than Biden. The Maine election won’t draw a perfect line to 2024. Paul LePage, Republican candidate for governor, speaks to reporters outside Dysart's Restaurant and Pub, Thursday, May 19, 2022, in Bangor, Maine. He said, “Just like at the national level, we’re seeing those forces clash again.”

And Mills has governed with no drama, like Biden in a sense.” Flamboyant, maybe?” said David Farmer, a Democratic political operative who was deputy chief of staff to LePage’s predecessor, Gov. “LePage, I’m not even sure what the right word might be for his attitude toward governing. He has boasted that he was “Donald Trump before Donald Trump.”Īnd then there’s Mills, who is … not that. Janet Mills, could hardly be more Trump-like – the kind of brash, vulgarity-prone politician who told former President Barack Obama to “ go to hell,” and blamed the state’s heroin epidemic on drug dealers with names like “ D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” who, LePage said, come to Maine and return home after impregnating a “young white girl.” Paul LePage, the former Republican governor back to challenge Democratic Gov. Teeing up a Trump-Biden preview in Maineįew states will offer a better preview of a potential Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch in 2024 than the gubernatorial race that got set up Tuesday in Maine. While Trump remains wildly popular with the Nevada GOP - some 89 percent of Republican voters there view him favorably, according to the latest Nevada Independent poll - he still isn’t clearing most GOP primary fields in 2022. Republican Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt waits to speak at a campaign event June 11, 2022, in Las Vegas.Īnd for all of Laxalt’s big-name national support, he and Brown raised similar amounts throughout the primary, with Brown finding success with small-dollar donors. Ron DeSantis out to campaign with him in Nevada, and he received support from Trump last week in the form of a tele-town hall. In just the last three weeks, the Club for Growth has spent roughly $750,000 on television ads attacking Brown in an effort to shore up Laxalt’s support among Republicans. Sam Brown, the wounded Afghanistan veteran and anti-establishment outsider, secured the endorsement of the Nevada Republican Party this spring, and Laxalt and his allies were forced to scramble. But no matter what the final tally may be, it wasn’t expected to be this hard for a former state attorney general with a political pedigree.

Trump’s the establishment nowĪdam Laxalt had the backing of Trump and a host of prominent national GOP leaders and groups, and he may be fine in his bid to represent Nevada in the Senate. “He voted to impeach, and Mace did not,” said one South Carolina Republican familiar with the Mace and Rice campaigns. Rice had to face an angry GOP base with little buffer.