Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* It was close, but Denise Powell prevailed in Nebraska’s Democratic congressional primary in the state’s so-called blue dot, Omaha-area district. She will now face the Republican nominee, Omaha City Councilman Brinker Harding, in November.
* J.D. Vance is traveling to Maine, where the vice president is expected to do some campaigning in support of former Republican Gov. Paul LePage, who’s currently running for the House. Vance will not, however, be campaigning for Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who’s spending the week on Capitol Hill.
* Louisiana Republicans are moving forward with a new congressional map that will eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black districts. The next step is a vote in the state Senate, which could come as early as Thursday.
* Similarly, in South Carolina, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster is expected to call a legislative special session focused specifically on erasing the state’s only majority-Black district.
* Meanwhile, in Georgia, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is also calling the state legislature back for a special session, also focused on redistricting, though unlike South Carolina and Louisiana, this plan would not take effect until after this year’s election cycle.
* In Maryland, Democratic state Senate President Bill Ferguson played an integral role in killing his party’s redistricting gambit earlier this year. Now, as Ferguson faces a primary rival and loses intraparty backing, he’s decided to take a fresh look at possibly overhauling the state’s congressional map.
* And The New York Times published an interesting report this week on money in politics: “The biggest donor in the midterm elections is not Elon Musk, or George Soros, or any of the other billionaires who are often thought to wield the fattest wallets in politics. It is a venture capital firm: Andreessen Horowitz.”
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