Republican White House candidate Ron DeSantis is plowing ahead with efforts to portray himself as his party’s staunchest national conservative leader, even as the 2024 GOP race had been overshadowed by the federal indictment for mishandling classified documents against former President Donald Trump.
So-called model legislation has been used in statehouses for decades. Now, critics say model legislation allows a handful of far-right groups to create a false narrative around gender-affirming care for minors that is based on distorted science.
As Joe Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, embarks on his reelection campaign, he is increasingly musing aloud about his advanced age, cracking self-deprecating jokes and framing his decades in public life as a plus.
In the days since President Joe Biden formally launched his 2024 campaign, key members of the sprawling political coalition that lifted him over former President Donald Trump in 2020 are far from excited about the prospect of four more years.
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Republican House candidates nationwide won the support of 38% of independent voters in last month's midterm elections, VoteCast showed. That's far short of the 51% that Democrats scored with the same group in 2018 when they swept into power by picking up 41 seats.
Votes for Democrats Dana Allmond of Marana and Brian Radford of Tucson are close with Republicans Rachel Jones of Tucson and Cory McGarr of Marana as of Wednesday morning.
Arizona House legislative district 18 covers the Catalina Foothills, Casas Adobes and a swath of Tucson north of Broadway, east of Country Club Road and west of Camino Seco.
Both incumbents automatically assume their posts in January.
Arizona House LD 21 encompasses western Pima County, about half of Santa Cruz County and the city of Bisbee in Cochise County.
The districts cover mostly southern and eastern Arizona, except for one that stretches mostly west of Tucson from the international border on north to Yuma and on up to Phoenix.
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