Category: 2022 mid-term primaries

Sabatini Rejected, Trump-Backed Luna Wins in GOP Bids for Open Congressional Seats in Central Florida

LAKELAND, Fla.—A Trumpian firebrand, a former Florida secretary of state, and an Iraq/Afghanistan war veteran running in his first election are among Republicans advancing to likely victories in November elections for open seats in three central Florida congressional districts. Air Force veteran Anna Paulina Luna, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, edged two challengers to…


Wyoming’s Disappearing Democrats Not Shy About ‘Crossover’ Voting

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.—There is no secret cabal of Democrats working in cahoots with Rep. Lynn Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) campaign to reelect former President Donald Trump’s most ardent Republican critic. Many Wyoming Democrats will tell you openly they are switching parties on Aug. 16 to cast ballots for Cheney in her Republican Party primary against Fort Laramie…


All Politics Is Local in Wyoming, No Matter Which Way the Wind Blows

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.—The late-afternoon thunderstorm barreled down the chalky face of White Mountain and rolled east into the Red Desert, where it would dissipate and disappear in the expanse of the Great Divide Basin’s sagebrush steppe. In the blow’s wake returned the sun and the wind—the flag-snapping, bush-bending winds of Wyoming that scrape the land…