Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* While there are some closely watched contests in Ohio and Michigan, Tuesday’s marquee elections are in Indiana, where several GOP state senators are facing White House-backed primary rivals after they defied Donald Trump’s demands on gerrymandering.
* Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices did another favor for GOP officials and candidate on Monday. As The New York Times reported, the conservative majority agreed to “immediately transmit to the lower courts its opinion striking down Louisiana’s congressional map, rather than wait 32 days, as would have been routine.”
* As expected, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law the gerrymandered congressional map approved by his fellow Republicans. Voting rights advocates filed suit against the legally dubious gambit immediately.
* With just three weeks remaining before Texas’ closely watched Republican Senate primary, the latest University of Houston poll found state Attorney General Ken Paxton with a narrow advantage over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, 48% to 45%.
* Speaking of closely watched Republican Senate primaries, the latest poll from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in Georgia found Rep. Mike Collins leading the GOP field with roughly 22% support, though more than half of the state’s primary voters remain undecided. Primary Day in the state is two weeks away.
* In Louisiana’s Republican Senate primary, Trump has continued to go after his party’s incumbent. “Hopefully all of the Great Republican People of Louisiana, which I won, BIG, three times, will be voting Bill Cassidy OUT OF OFFICE in the upcoming Republican Primary!” the president wrote on his social media platform late last week.
* And in California’s gubernatorial race, Republican Steve Hilton, widely seen as his party’s top contender, appeared on MS NOW and was asked whether he accepts the fact that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. He refused to answer, despite multiple attempts to solicit a straight answer.
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