Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* When it comes to Republicans running for president, the race to the bottom is well underway: Former Ambassador Nikki Haley told voters this week that she believes it’s “likely” that President Joe Biden will die within five years.
* As expected, Gov. Jim Justice launched a U.S. Senate campaign in West Virginia yesterday, but he’s not running unopposed in the Republican primary: Rep. Alex Mooney has already launched a new campaign ad, reminding GOP voters that Justice was a Democrat until 2017.
* A federal judge rejected voting restrictions approved by Florida’s GOP-led legislature in the wake of the 2020 elections, but Republican-appointed judges on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals endorsed the voting restrictions and sent the case back to the district court for review.
* On the campaign trail in New Hampshire yesterday, Donald Trump embraced a woman convicted of defying police orders on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6. The former president also agreed to sign the backpack she said she carried to the Capitol complex. Micki Larson-Olson, who served months in jail for her actions on Jan. 6, told NBC News that lawmakers who certified the results of the 2020 election deserve to be be killed for treason.









