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Friday May 24, 2024 · 6:00 AM PDT

2024/05/24 · 06:00

The Daily Kos Elections team is taking Friday off for Memorial Day weekend. The Live Digest will return on Tuesday, and the Morning Digest will resume on Wednesday. Have a great holiday!

Please note: The Weekly Open Thread is a Democratic presidential primary-free space.

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Morning Digest: How the Supreme Court's new ruling shreds voting rights—again

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Friday May 24, 2024 · 5:00 AM PDT

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_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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The Daily Kos Elections team will be taking Friday off for Memorial Day weekend. The Morning Digest will return on Wednesday. Have a great holiday!

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● SC Redistricting: The Supreme Court's right-wing majority upheld South Carolina's congressional map in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines issued Thursday, reversing a lower court ruling that found Republicans had violated the Constitution by racially gerrymandering the 1st District to protect Rep. Nancy Mace, a white Republican.

The majority ruled that politics—not race—was the predominant factor in the GOP's gerrymander, which shifted Black voters from the 1st District to the neighboring 6th to ensure conservative white voters would still dominate in the 1st.

This latest decision all but eliminates one of the few remaining tools that voters of color had left to challenge racism in redistricting. Because the court's Republican-appointed majority ruled in 2019 that federal courts cannot adjudicate partisan gerrymandering challenges, allowing Republican mapmakers to claim partisan motives as a defense against racial gerrymandering only entrenches both kinds of gerrymanders.

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Thursday May 23, 2024 · 12:10 PM PDT

2024/05/23 · 12:10

We're heading across the pond for this week's episode of "The Downballot" after the UK just announced it would hold snap elections—on July 4, no less. Co-host David Beard gives us Yanks a full run-down, including how the elections will work, what the polls are predicting, and what Labour plans to do if it finally ends 14 years of Conservative rule. We also take detours into Scotland and Rwanda (believe it or not) and bear down on a small far-right party that could cost the Tories dearly.

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But don't worry, we haven't forgotten about the Stars and Stripes! We also recap some of Tuesday's top election results, including one Democratic primary in Oregon that has D.C. Democrats breathing a sigh of relief. And we circle back to several big stories that we've covered recently, including a huge triumph for Missouri Democrats in the fight to protect direct democracy and restore abortion rights.

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Thursday May 23, 2024 · 11:31 AM PDT

2024/05/23 · 11:31

Brandon Herrera, Republican candidate for Texas — Brandon Herrera is hoping his social media following and far-right base will propel him to an upset win

Voters in Texas return to the polls on Tuesday for primary runoffs in contests where no one earned a majority of the vote in the first round on March 5.

Lone Star Republicans will decide whether to eject several incumbents who've run afoul with the base—including a prominent West Texas congressman and the speaker of the state House— in favor of more hardline options. They're also selecting nominees in another pair of congressional districts, including one where a longtime Democratic congressman was recently indicted.

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Thursday May 23, 2024 · 9:27 AM PDT

2024/05/23 · 09:27

The Supreme Court's right-wing majority upheld South Carolina's congressional map in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines issued Thursday, reversing a lower court ruling that found Republicans had violated the Constitution by racially gerrymandering the 1st District to protect Rep. Nancy Mace, a white Republican.

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Thursday May 23, 2024 · 6:00 AM PDT

2024/05/23 · 06:00

Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. You can find our collection of public data at dailykosdata.com.

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Thursday May 23, 2024 · 5:00 AM PDT

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● NJ-08: New Jersey Rep. Rob Menendez is pushing back on Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla's attempts to link him to his scandal-ridden father, Sen. Bob Menendez, in a new commercial ahead of their June 4 Democratic primary for the dark blue 8th District.

"My opponent wants to run against my father because he's scared to run against me," the congressman tells the audience. "That's on him."

Menendez doesn't say anything more about the senator, who is currently on trial for corruption, or Bhalla, whom he does not mention by name. The incumbent instead argues he's an ardent liberal, declaring, "I'm protecting health care coverage for pre-existing conditions, and I'm defending abortion rights from the MAGA Republicans."

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Wednesday May 22, 2024 · 6:00 AM PDT

2024/05/22 · 06:00

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● SC-04: South Carolina Rep. William Timmons' newest ad accuses his primary opponent of being too hardline on abortion, a line of attack that GOP candidates almost never use against one another. Timmons, though, is betting that even Republican primary voters in the conservative Greenville area have limits on what they're willing to tolerate.

The spot shows footage of state Rep. Adam Morgan, who is challenging Timmons for renomination on June 11, raising his hand in support of what a female narrator describes as "legislation that would send rape and incest victims to jail for up to two years who ended their pregnancy."

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Tuesday May 21, 2024 · 3:00 PM PDT

2024/05/21 · 15:00

Downballot primaries continue tonight with races in Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, and Oregon, plus a special election in California! The first polls close at 6 PM ET in eastern Kentucky, while the last polls close at 11 PM ET in California and most of Oregon.

You can find our guide to all the key races here.

Results: Associated Press | New York Times (CA, GA, ID, KY, OR) | Politico

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Tuesday May 21, 2024 · 6:00 AM PDT

2024/05/21 · 06:00

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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. You can find our collection of public data at dailykosdata.com.

Please note: The Live Digest is a Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy.

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Tuesday May 21, 2024 · 5:00 AM PDT

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● Election Night: The battle for a seat on the Georgia Supreme Court occupies center stage on Tuesday night, with former Democratic Rep. John Barrow hoping that his focus on abortion rights will help make conservative incumbent Andrew Pinson the first justice to lose in 102 years. But as Jeff Singer details in our coast-to-coast preview, it's not the only contest with major implications.

Both parties are paying close attention to the Democratic primary for a key House seat in Oregon, where D.C. Democrats have weighed in heavily on behalf of their preferred candidate—and where Republicans appear to be boosting her opponent.

There's also another expensive Democratic battle for a safely blue seat in the Portland area, while the Rose City's district attorney is fighting for reelection four years after criminal justice reformers hailed his initial victory at the ballot box.

Singer has the details on all these races and more, including how redistricting and health concerns could send a moderate congressman's primary into overtime. Polls close in Georgia at 7 PM ET. We'll have an open thread to discuss the results at Daily Kos Elections.

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