The GOP's congressional hopes once again hinge on Trumpism — if not Trump himself.
is scheduled to meet with a man widely seen as wanting his job -- on a day the former and perhaps would-be-future president also appears in another part of the state.
Meanwhile, Trump is standing by Walker -- his longtime friend and hand-picked Senate candidate -- even while Walker's son Christian makes clear he thinks his father isn't telling the truth. That son, for what it's worth, is a conservative influencer who has long been a public booster of DeSantis -- himself hardly a Trump favorite at the moment.
"They know they are on the verge of losing the Senate and they know that Herschel Walker is winning, so they have cranked up the smear machine," Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs the GOP's campaign arm in the Senate, said Tuesday. The accusations of mudslinging from the right are complicated, of course, by Walker's own son slamming him publicly via social media.
A group of Black Alabama residents challenged the configuration, saying the map violates the Voting Rights Act, which requires states to provide minority voters with "an equal opportunity to participate in the political process." The group says the map dilutes the voting power of Black citizens and that the state is obligated to create another majority-Black district.
Although LaCour replied that the effort was meant "to make sure that no one is being harmed," the case heightens the stakes of the existing power of the Voting Rights Act. Civil rights groups have already expressed concerns about the future of the landmark law following a series of decisions by the Supreme Court's conservative majority addressing racial discrimination in the voting process.
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