Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary is still a few weeks away, but the state’s Democratic presidential primary is tomorrow. President Joe Biden is expected to win by a wide margin.
* Ten Republican state senators in Oregon last year staged a record-long walkout in the hopes of derailing bills on abortion, transgender health care, and gun rights, despite a voter-approved measure aimed at stopping such boycotts. The Oregon Supreme Court has now ruled that the GOP legislators cannot legally run for re-election.
* While latest national Quinnipiac University poll found Biden leading Donald Trump by six points in a hypothetical general-election match-up, a new national poll from CNN found the former president leading the Democratic incumbent by four points, 49% to 45%.
* Speaking of 2024 polling, the latest surveys from Fox News found Trump leading Biden by six points in Georgia — a state that narrowly voted Democratic in 2020 — and found the two tied in Wisconsin.
* Kristina Karamo and Pete Hoekstra both claim to be the chair of the Michigan Republican Party, and both attended the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting this week — though neither one was invited, and neither received official recognition. * In New Jersey’s U.S. Senate race, a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University found Rep. Andy Kim leading First Lady Tammy Murphy in a Democratic primary, 32% to 20%. Incumbent Sen. Bob Menendez was further back with 9% support. The indicted senator hasn’t yet said whether he intends to run for re-election or not. * Republican voters in Nevada hoping to participate in a presidential nominating contest will discover there’s a GOP primary and caucus. The result is predictable: widespread confusion.
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
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