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Republicans outnumber Democrats in Arizona but that advantage hasn’t helped in recent statewide elections and candidates are banking on staking out a middle ground to win
Arizona’s turning blue, but it still feels very red D. Hunter Schwarz © Photo Illustration by Alex Cochran On paper, Arizona has become one of America’s newest blue states, as Democratic candidates ended yearslong Republican winning streaks in Senate and presidential elections over the past two years. On the ground, though, many parts of the state still feel very red. Drive around the Phoenix metro area, and you’ll spot plenty of Trump 2020 bumper stickers and maybe a “Don’t California My Arizona” decal. On Tuesday morning at a coffee shop in Gilbert in the state...
By Staff Reporter A ZIMBABWEAN-born woman Nicolle Nkazimulo Moyo, now based in the United Kingdom, was Friday elected councillor for Peterborough’s Hargate and Hempsted ward. Moyo stood on a Conservative Party ticket against three other candidates from the Green Party, Labour, and Liberal Democrats. She polled 664 votes against Kevin Tighe (Liberal Democrats) – 316 votes, Timothy Kujiyat (Labour) – 311 votes, and Samantha Godley (Green) – 113 votes. Meanwhile, senior MDC official Elliot Pfebve lost in the same UK council elections in Short Heath ward. Pfebve representing the Labo...
Delaware County killer's sentence reduced by 50 years © Photo provided Matt Stidham MUNCIE, Ind. — Delaware County court officials made it official Monday; a 138-year sentence a local killer received nearly three decades ago was reduced by 50 years. The Indiana Supreme Court last November had ordered the sentence reduction for Matthew Stidham, who was 17 when he participated in the February 1991 slaying and robbery of Daniel Barker, a 31-year-old Eaton man. Stidham, then also of Eaton, was twice convicted of murder, robbery and criminal confinement in the case, first at the conclusion ...
Anti-Trump Republicans face life ’in the wilderness’ POLITICO 2/22/2021 By David Siders © Danny Johnston/AP Photo Sen. Jim Hendren, a longtime Arkansas state legislator, has announced that he is leaving the GOP. When Jim Hendren, a longtime Arkansas state legislator, announced on Thursday that he was leaving the GOP, it marked the latest in a flurry of recent defections from the party. Tens of thousands of Republicans across the country have changed their registrations in the weeks since the riot at the Capitol — many of them, like Hendren, becoming independents. Ot...