Republican Jerry Evans was ahead in the Republican primary for the 11th District late Tuesday, with 50 percent of the vote, compared with 37.3 percent for Susan Hathaway-Altman and 12.8 percent for Kent Mercado. In the 12th District – a conservative downstate district that covers the southernmost...
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CNN Projection: Catalina Lauf will win Republican primary in Illinois 11th Congressional District From CNN staff Beating out five other candidates, Catalina Lauf will win the Republican nomination in the 11th Congressional District in Illinois, CNN projects. Lauf worked at the US Department of Commer...
Only three of the eight Republican women we were tracking won their primary races: Two of them were uncontested and are in deep blue districts, where they are unlikely to win in November. One, Miller in Illinois's 15th, is the incumbent. On the...
In Illinois, Democrats spent the long weekend coaxing Republican legislators to join their suicide pact to raise taxes to plug a $6 billion deficit… And don’t forget the $130 billion unfunded pension liability—none of which will be solved by the $5 billion tax hike. …The state legislat...
Looking ahead to the general election, the winner of today’s Republican primary matters not just in deciding who might be Ohio’s next senator, but in deciding control of the Senate come 2025. Since West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin decided to retire, prognosticators largely expect th...
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Since Irvin jumped into the Republican primary earlier this year, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and lawmakers have criticized Irvin for touting a crime-busting reputation while ignoring his 15 years of work as a defense attorney. In a Feb. 20 tweet, Irvin said, “In my first year in offi...
This decision swayed the election in favor of Republican candidate George W. Bush. [Pictured: Texas newspapers reporting on the presidential race dated Nov. 27, 2000.] 2001: USA PATRIOT Act U.S. National Archives // Flickr 2001: USA PATRIOT Act Just a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist ...
In the Republican primary for Attorney General, Harvard Law graduate and Champaign-Urbana attorney Erika Harold, well known in Republican political circles, leads the lesser-known Gary Grasso, a DuPage County board member, 18 percent to 14 percent, with almost two-thirds (65 percent) undecided....