The Wyoming Freedom Caucus had ambitions for a total takeover of elected state government. But its candidates were rejected from the governor’s mansion to the Legislature.
Wyoming, one of the most conservative states, has a legislature divided between a hard-right House and a merely right Senate. Ultraconservatives want a complete takeover in the Aug. 18 primaries.
Democrats have real hope for candidates for governor in red states like Iowa and Ohio, but if Republicans seize supermajorities in the legislatures, their power would be limited.
State Representative Alexander Kolodin will take on Adrian Fontes, the incumbent Democratic secretary of state, after defeating a more moderate Republican in the primary.
State Representative Tim Fleming defeated an ardent denier of the 2020 election results, Vernon Jones, in the Republican runoff to be Georgia’s top election official.
Penny Brown Reynolds, a former judge, defeated Dana Barrett ahead of a potentially fraught general election to see who will succeed Brad Raffensperger as secretary of state.
Michael Perry says he is pragmatic, but Democrats fear he would advance the agenda of President Trump and the New Mexican nominated to head the Bureau of Land Management, Steve Pearce.
The tightly fought contest to control 9 million acres of state land revolved around which candidate could beat back President Trump and his public land chief, New Mexico’s Steve Pierce.
