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North Carolina G.O.P. Picks Replacement for Candidate Plagued by Scandal

Representative Chuck Edwards dropped his re-election bid amid sexual harassment allegations. His replacement, Jennifer Balkcom, has about 80 days to campaign.

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Representative Chuck Edwards dropped his re-election bid after the House Ethics Committee recommended that he be censured.
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Trump Stokes Islamophobia by Calling Democratic Candidates ‘Jihadists’

Along with his comments about Muslim candidates, Mr. Trump spoke disparagingly of Somalis in the United States, saying “they’re not smart.”

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President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that “we have jihadists being elected all over the place.”
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Yabloko, Russian Antiwar Party, Is Banned From Parliament Elections

The party, Yabloko, has navigated a delicate balancing act with an increasingly heavy-handed Kremlin, but its pro-peace manifesto turned out to be the red line.

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Nikolai Rybakov, right, the Yabloko party’s leader, and his lawyer, second from right, listening to the court decision after a hearing on a lawsuit to bar the party from upcoming parliamentary elections on Monday in Russia’s Supreme Court in Moscow.
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Wisconsin’s Roller Coaster of a Democratic Primary Race for Governor Crashes to an End

Democrats appear likely to nominate a democratic socialist for governor. How did they get here?

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Francesca Hong is a democratic socialist and candidate for governor in Wisconsin.
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Will Wisconsin Voters Think Francesca Hong Is Too Radical? Here’s Where She Stands.

The democratic socialist is the front-runner to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday.

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Francesca Hong at a candidate forum in Prairie du Sac, Wis., in July.
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Minnesota’s Democratic Senate Primary Pits Angie Craig Against Peggy Flanagan

The Senate primary race in Minnesota will be the latest test of left-wing energy in the party, in a state that was convulsed by the Trump administration’s deadly immigration crackdown this winter.

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Ms. Flanagan, third from left, has been backed by Minnesota Democrats and national progressives including, from left, Senator Tina Smith, Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison, the Minnesota attorney general.
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The Campaign Tactics Helping Progressives Win Primaries Ahead of the 2026 Midterms

Progressives are being outspent and are receiving little support from the Democratic Party. Their tactics show a different way to succeed.

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The campaign of Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist running for governor of Wisconsin, has recruited about 7,000 volunteers, knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors and hosted roughly 500 canvassing events.
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