Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* There are quite a few primary races in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming this week, and as is usually the case, Bolts has a very helpful rundown on the contests worth watching.
* On a related note, there’s a closely watched contest in the Tampa area, where Andrew Warren is trying to regain his old job as the city’s top prosecutor after being pushed aside by Gov. Ron DeSantis last summer.
* Donald Trump promoted fake online content over the weekend, falsely suggesting he’d been endorsed by popstar Taylor Swift. As is usually the case, the former president was apparently trying to deceive the public.
* In theory, Republican officials are still eager to flip Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat from “blue” to “red” this year. In practice, as The Arizona Republic reports, GOP conspiracy theorist Kari Lake isn’t getting much in the way of intraparty backing: “Of the eight most competitive Senate races across the country, Lake has drawn the least Republican-supportive money in future television ad reservations, a key data point widely viewed in political circles as a sign of serious competition.”
* Speaking of key U.S. Senate races, the latest survey in Montana from American Pulse Research and Polling found Republican Tim Sheehy with a six-point lead over incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. (Click the link for information on the survey’s methodology and margins of error.)
* To the surprise of no one, GOP candidates — up and down the country, from coast to coast — are running campaign ads focused on immigration and border security. A detailed Washington Post analysis concluded, “Taken as a whole, the ads convey an unrealistic portrait of the border as being overrun and inaccurately characterize immigrants generally as a threat, of which there is little evidence.”
* And despite Donald Trump’s bizarre offensive against Gov. Brian Kemp, the Georgia Republican has confirmed that he’ll support the former president’s candidacy in the fall anyway, even after Trump targeted Kemp’s wife.
