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Pennsylvania GOP launches ‘super MAGA Trump’ primary
Never mind Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Palm Beach, Fla., is where the Republican nomination figures are to be decided.
Multiple former Trump administration officials are eyeing the Senate seat in Pennsylvania. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo
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PHILADELPHIA The likely GOP candidates in Pennsylvania’s open Senate race come in three familiar flavors: anti-Trump, Trumpy and Trumpiest.
Though President Donald Trump lost Pennsylvania in 2020 and will have been out of office for nearly two years by the time voters cast their ballots in the Senate election, the Republican primary here is already revolving around him creating a potential dilemma for the GOP in one of the nation’s most important races next year.
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Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate race raises simmering divisions inside the party
In the beginning stages of Pennsylvania’s high stakes Democratic Senate primary, even the most progressive of candidates are downplaying the label.
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey’s decision to retire next year means that for the first time in more than a decade, voters in what has become one of the country’s most hotly contested swing states will not see an incumbent senator on the ballot in 2022. The opening has gifted Democrats both a chance to expand their narrow advantage and depending on who captures the nomination the opportunity to introduce a pathbreaking new lawmaker to the Senate’s mostly wealthy and buttoned-down, White male ranks.
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