Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* As expected, Republicans successfully flipped a U.S. House seat yesterday, with Mayra Flores defeating Dan Sanchez in a Texas special election. The GOP candidate will fill a vacancy left by former Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela, who stepped down in March to take a job with the law and lobbying firm Akin Gump.
* Among the many interesting primary results yesterday was in Nevada, where former Assemblyman Jim Marchant became the Republican Party’s secretary of state nominee, despite — or perhaps because of — his election-related conspiracy theories.
* In Pennsylvania, a new USA Today Network/Suffolk University poll found Lt. Gov. John Fetterman as the apparent frontrunner in this year’s open U.S. Senate race: The Democrat leads celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in the survey, 46 percent to 37 percent.
* The same poll found a more competitive gubernatorial race in the Keystone State: Democratic state Attorney General Josh Shapiro leads Republican Doug Mastriano in the survey, 44 percent to 40 percent.
* On a related note, Oz has already faced difficult questions about his ties to his adopted home state, and it won’t help that he appears to have misspelled the name of a Pennsylvania town as part of his official statement of candidacy. It didn’t take long before Fetterman, drew attention to Oz’s error, having a little fun at the Republican’s expense. * In Georgia’s closely watched statewide races, a new poll from East Carolina University found incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp with a five-point advantage over Democrat Stacey Abrams, 50 percent to 45 percent. * As for Georgia’s U.S. Senate race, the same poll found Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock tied with former football player Herschel Walker, with both candidates garnering 46 percent support. * It says something interesting about Republicans politics that Ryan Kelley, the far-right real-estate agent running for governor in Michigan, has launched a fundraising campaign based on the FBI arresting him last week.
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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