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California Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy won the Republican nomination for Speaker of the House.
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"He only needed to secure support from a majority of his conference — including incumbents, newly elected members, and candidates in uncalled races — in a secret-ballot vote held behind closed doors at the Capitol.

In a vote of 188-31, Mr. McCarthy easily defeated a challenge on his right from Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona, a former chairman of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus who ran as a protest candidate."

McCarthy overwhelmingly won G.O.P. backing for speaker, but the vote signals he still faces a tough fight. The challenge indicates a potentially rough fight ahead of him to secure the job at the start of the new Congress.

Murkowski closes on Tshibaka as votes are counted in U.S. Senate race Republican Kelly Tshibaka was leading Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski after early returns were posted Tuesday night. But Murkowski said she was confident she could overtake Tshibaka once second-choice votes are tallied in the ranked choice election.

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The Primary Election is Tuesday, August 16th, 2022.
Things are heating up.

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“In a year when control of Congress is at stake and the Republican Party is dominated by the reactionary right, Ms. Murkowski is attempting something almost unheard-of: running for re-election as a proud G.O.P. moderate willing to defy party orthodoxy.

For Ms. Murkowski, 64, it amounts to a high-stakes bet that voters in the famously independent state of Alaska will reward a Republican centrist at a time of extreme partisanship.

She has good reasons to hope they will. Though it leans conservative, Alaska is a fiercely individualistic state where the majority of voters do not align with either major political party. And under a new set of election rules engineered by her allies, Ms. Murkowski does not have to worry about a head-to-head contest with a more conservative opponent. Instead, she will compete in an Aug. 16 primary open to candidates of any political stripe, followed by a general election in which voters will rank the top four to emerge from the primary to determine a winner.

Despite her penchant for defecting from the party line, Ms. Murkowski also has powerful help from the Republican establishment; Senator Mitch McConnell’s leadership political action committee announced last week that it had reserved $7.4 million worth of advertising in Alaska to support her candidacy.

So she has embarked on a re-election campaign that is also an effort to salvage a version of the Republican Party that hardly exists anymore in Congress, as seasoned pragmatists retire or are chased out by right-wing hard-liners competing to take their places.”
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Later, at a pizza party at a local bar to benefit her campaign, Ms. Murkowski talked to supporters about her friendship with Mr. Manchin and long-gone titans of the Senate in both parties, name-dropping former Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and quoting former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska as she recalled a bygone era when camaraderie and common purpose tempered partisanship on Capitol Hill.

Perhaps her own candidacy could prove there was still hope for that kind of politics.

“You’ve got to demonstrate that there are other possibilities, that there is a different reality — and maybe it won’t work,” Ms. Murkowski said in the interview. “Maybe I am just completely politically naïve, and this ship has sailed. But I won’t know unless we — unless I — stay out there and give Alaskans the opportunity to weigh in.”

Shunned by the Right, Murkowski Bets Big on the Center in Alaska The Republican senator is leaning into her centrist credentials and bipartisan ties in her re-election race, hoping that voters will reward moderation as the G.O.P. has lurched to the right.