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By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) – Dozens of U.S. lawmakers urged President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday to roll back any plans to ship to unsafe third countries Afghan nationals who worked with U.S. forces during the war in their homeland.

In a letter seen by Reuters, more than 80 House of Representatives members, including at least three Republicans as well as Democrats, appealed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reconsider plans for 1,100 Afghans who have been stranded in Qatar awaiting relocation.

“It’s both a moral and a national security imperative that our country live up to its promise and watch out for those who put themselves in harm’s way to help keep us safe,” Democratic Representative Jason Crow of Colorado, a former Army Ranger who led the letter, said in a statement.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration was in talks to send the Afghans to the Democratic Republic of Congo, as they remained in limbo more than four years after the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul.

The situation for Afghans in particular has been more difficult since late 2025, after an Afghan immigrant was accused of an attack in Washington that killed one National Guard member and wounded another.

After the shooting, Trump’s administration pointed to a lack of vetting of Afghans and other foreign nationals during the term of former President Joe Biden, a Democrat, although the suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal was granted asylum under Trump.

Trump signed an executive order preventing Afghan refugees, including those who worked with the military, from entering the U.S.

Many of Trump’s fellow Republicans in Congress have stepped back from what was once bipartisan support for efforts like the Special Immigrant Visa program to clear Afghans who had worked with American forces to come to the United States.

Rubio was queried at congressional hearings last week about whether the administration still planned to send the Afghans to the DRC, despite an Ebola outbreak in the war-torn African nation. Rubio responded that the U.S. was talking with “multiple countries” about taking them in.

‘ALONGSIDE OUR SERVICEMEMBERS’

In the letter, the lawmakers stressed the service the Afghans had provided U.S. forces. “In our nearly 20-year mission in Afghanistan across four administrations, Afghan allies served in essential roles in support of U.S. operations, fighting alongside our servicemembers as interpreters, contractors and security personnel,” the letter said.

“We urge the prioritization of secure, stable and cost-effective pathways that uphold U.S. national security interests and honor our commitments,” the letter said.

The letter also suggested that Afghans who have cleared enhanced vetting and are approved for travel be considered for entry to the United States.

The lawmakers asked for a briefing on the issue by June 24, seeking information including an update on the status of negotiations for third-party relocations and the legal authority for compelling Afghan evacuees to move to a third country.

The letter was also sent to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Nia Williams)

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At first glance, a recent Democratic primary in California’s Central Valley was just another skirmish between the party’s progressive wing and its more moderate establishment.

This time, the contest was won by populist insurgent Randy Villegas. But what sets the outcome apart from similar primary battles is the stakes.

This wasn’t a fight over a safe Democratic seat. Villegas will be the standard bearer against Republican Rep. David Valadao, one of the most promising targets for Democrats desperate to retake the U.S. House majority and slow down President Donald Trump.

The November race will test the theory, popular on the left, that voters will flock to progressive, anti-establishment candidates even in places that have traditionally favored Republicans.

“A populist message isn’t just for blue districts or certain parts of the country,” said Ravi Mangla, a spokesperson for the Working Families Party, one of the progressive groups that backed Villegas. “It can win anywhere people feel like politics is not working for them.”

“More than ever, voters across the political spectrum want candidates who are willing to stand up to power,” Mangla said.

The National Republican Congressional Committee dismissed Villegas’ chances, even though the state’s Democratic leaders recently redrew the district to make it easier to flip this year.

“Democrats know Villegas can’t beat Congressman David Valadao, as he embraces the same failed policies that have made California more expensive, less safe, and harder for working families in the Central Valley,” said spokesperson Christian Martinez.

The Villegas victory comes during an election season in which substantial parts of the Democratic base are rejecting the candidates that party bosses see as their best shot at winning power in Congress.

Graham Platner overwhelmingly won the Democratic Senate primary in Maine this week after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s preferred nominee, Gov. Janet Mills, dropped out with lackluster support weeks before the election.

A combat veteran and oyster farmer, Platner has never held elected office before, and he’s endured controversies over past relationships with women, inflammatory online posts and a since-covered tattoo recognized as a Nazi symbol.

In Michigan, Rep. Haley Stevens is entangled in a three-way contest for the Democratic Senate nomination against state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and progressive favorite Abdul El-Sayed. The primary is Aug. 4, and El-Sayed recently scored a major endorsement from the United Auto Workers union, a political powerhouse in the state that is home to the U.S. auto industry.

And in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race, progressive Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is in a fierce battle with U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, who is backed by labor unions, LGBTQ groups and moderate Democrats ahead of the primary on Aug. 11.

Another test will come on June 30 in Colorado, where progressive Manny Rutinel faces establishment-backed Shannon Bird in the Democratic primary to take on Republican Rep. Gabe Evans. Like Valadao, Evans is a top target for Democrats. And like the California race, the Colorado contest hinges on questions about who is most electable in November.

Valadao finished first and Villegas second in California’s primary, in which the top two candidates move on to the general election.

When early voting began about a month before the primary, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee took the unusual step of publicly signaling support for Jasmeet Bains, a doctor and state Assembly member who had lined up support from a bevy of elected officials, unions and health care groups.

“Dr. Jasmeet Bains has fought on the frontlines of health crises and built a track record of delivering for the Central Valley,” DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene said in a statement at the time. She did not criticize Villegas, but the public support for his rival was a powerful signal to Democratic donors and activists that the party believed Bains was a stronger candidate. Congressional leaders and the party apparatus they control rarely wade overtly into contested primaries for open seats.

The decision to back Bains infuriated many on the left, who saw it as another example of Washington insiders being out of touch with both the Democratic base and disaffected voters who helped power Trump’s victories.

“I think the moderates are wrong. People don’t want status quo, pro-corporate candidates,” said Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution, a progressive group that grew out of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. “They want people who are going to shake things up.”

Now that Villegas won, Democrats in Washington now insist he’s a strong candidate who is well-positioned to defeat Valadao. They point to the grassroots support that propelled him through the primary and the combined 59% that the Democrats got in the primary, significantly more than the 41% who voted for Valadao, though many more voters will turn out for the general election.

If the snub created tension between Villegas and his party, both sides buried it by Wednesday and presented a united front. California members of Congress, including some who had backed Bains, issued effusive statements, and he was magnanimous in return.

“We’re all in to elect Randy and flip this seat,” said Anna Elsasser, a spokesperson for the DCCC, the arm of the Democratic Party focused on winning House races. The district is “a must-win seat for the House majority, and we are confident in winning with Randy as the Democratic nominee,” she added.

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By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked a request to temporarily halt President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “weaponization” fund, citing Justice Department statements and court filings that said the administration was abandoning the fund. 

• U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled the request, made by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, was moot because the government had made clear it was not moving forward with the fund, even as Trump has repeatedly said he loves the idea of creating a pool of money to pay supporters who say they are victims of government abuse. Leon called the case “highly unusual.”

• The fund emerged from a settlement agreement between Trump and the Justice Department over the president’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. Leon asked Justice Department attorney Andrew Block why department leaders would not formally rescind the fund. “I don’t know,” he said.

• Leon also asked Block to reckon with Trump’s statements of support for the fund and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche telling lawmakers the fund was not moving forward. Block argued the administration could view payouts and rectifying past government wrongs as important while also saying the fund would not move forward. “Don’t play possum with this court,” Leon told Block before ending the hearing.

• The ruling does not affect a separate order from a federal judge in Virginia who issued a temporary halt to the fund last week. That temporary order is set to expire on Friday, when the judge in the case is scheduled to hear oral arguments.

(Reporting by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff; Editing by Jamie Freed)

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By Mike Stone

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – The Trump administration plans to meet executives from the biggest U.S. defense contractors at the White House as soon as next week to discuss accelerating production, as U.S. strikes on Iran and other military operations draw down supplies, sources said.

The meeting would mark the second White House gathering with chief executives of major defense firms on ramping up weapons production. A March meeting included the CEOs and other officials from BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX Corporation, Boeing, Honeywell Aerospace and L3Harris Technologies, along with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The war with Iran, as well as supplies sent to Ukraine in recent years, have depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles. 

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said, “The United States military has more than enough munitions, ammo, and stockpiles to serve all of President Trump’s strategic goals and beyond, and Operation Epic Fury has exposed what happens when you mess with the United States. Even still, the President has urged our defense contractors to constantly produce more made-in-America weapons, which are the best in the world. Democrats destroyed our military, but President Trump rebuilt it.”

The meeting comes as Pentagon negotiators press contractors to move much faster, with production agreements struck earlier this year at the center of those efforts. 

The agreements reached include a multiyear deal with Lockheed Martin to triple production of PAC-3 interceptors – missiles used by the Patriot air defense system to shoot down incoming threats – and quadruple output of THAAD interceptors, designed to destroy ballistic missiles at higher altitudes.

Separate multiyear deals with RTX aim to boost production of Tomahawk cruise missiles and AMRAAM air-to-air missiles. The deals, announced as “framework agreements,” have yet to translate into contracts.

Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing and L3Harris did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

(Reporting by Mike Stone in Washington; Editing by Mark Porter and Sanjeev Miglani)

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NEW YORK, June 10 (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Raja Krishnamoorthi have flagged concerns to Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon over his reported plans to keep top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler as an adviser despite her links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Goldman’s legal officer Ruemmler resigned this year after documents published by the U.S. Justice Department showed she accepted gifts from Epstein and advised him on how to address media inquiries regarding his crimes. Her resignation will be effective June 30, a source told Reuters.

Solomon has asked her to stay at the firm as an adviser, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

Goldman Sachs declined to comment on the report.

In the letter, U.S. Senator Warren and U.S. Representative Krishnamoorthi raised concerns that the material released by the DOJ and other reporting suggest Ruemmler maintained extensive contact with Epstein years after his conviction.

“The information uncovered in recent months not only raises serious questions as to whether Goldman Sachs either failed to conduct proper due diligence or viewed Ruemmler’s relationship with Epstein as appropriate when appointing her as the firm’s top lawyer, but now calls into question your professional judgment and fitness to continue leading one of the largest banks in the United States,” the letter said.

The lawmakers asked Solomon to explain if “Ruemmler is no longer departing the bank, please provide the reasoning, her new title, duties associated with her new role, and details regarding her compensation package.”

“Did you ‘press’ Ruemmler to stay at the firm? If so, why?” it said.

Ruemmler did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Her external spokesperson declined to comment.

The departure of Ruemmler, who was among the top executive officers of the Wall Street firm, is the most high-profile banking exit after the release of the latest Epstein documents by the DOJ earlier this year.

Krishnamoorthi and Warren requested responses from Solomon by June 26 regarding Goldman’s prior knowledge of Ruemmler’s relationship with Epstein, the firm’s due diligence and defense of its top lawyer following the DOJ document release, the letter said.

   Goldman CEO Solomon said in February he had reluctantly accepted her resignation, telling CNBC he respected her decision to leave.

Scrutiny has intensified on the ties between major financial institutions and Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. His death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City was ruled a suicide.

(Reporting by Saeed Azhar, editing by Pete Schroeder and David Gregorio)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump laced into Graham Platner on Wednesday, calling the Senate candidate from Maine a “thug” and a “pig” and suggesting that the Democratic Party was hypocritical for lining up behind someone with so many questions about his past personal conduct and treatment of women.

Trump also has endorsed a parade of Republicans with their own personal baggage — but that didn’t stop him from faulting the other side for doing the same.

“He’s a thug, and they’re trying to make excuses for him,” Trump said of top Democrats. “I mean, he’s worse than any human being that’s ever run for office, probably.”

Platner, who clinched the Democratic nomination on Tuesday night, has faced criticism over numerous issues, including past inflammatory online posts, a tattoo he had covered up that is widely recognized as a Nazi symbol and sexually explicit texts he sent to women after getting married. He will face five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the November election.

Asked about Trump’s comments, Platner’s campaign said the candidate remained focused on issues facing Maine.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, in response, issued a statement focused on Collins, who is considered one of the most vulnerable senators up for reelection this year.

“Susan Collins is facing backlash in Maine after voting with Trump 96 percent of the time, being the decisive vote for the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, and selling out to the special interests that fund her campaigns after three decades in the Senate, and that’s why Trump praised her today in the Oval Office,” spokesperson Josh Marcus-Blank said in a statement.

The White House defended Trump’s comments by noting Platner’s past social media posts.

“Graham Platner proudly referred to himself as a ‘communist,’ called all police ‘bastards,’ and said rural White Americans ‘actually are’ racist and stupid. President Trump is absolutely correct that Platner is both a thug and a pig. Attempting to compare President Trump to Graham Platner is exactly why trust in legacy media outlets like the failing Associated Press is at an all-time low,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement.

Trump, when speaking about Platner to reporters at the White House during an event to sign an immigration and deportation funding bill, said, “Nobody’s ever had a record like that.”

“He’s like a pig,” the president said, adding that perhaps “pigs would be very upset” to be associated with Platner, drawing laughter from assorted Republican lawmakers in the Oval Office with him.

Trump then brought up another scandal that has swirled around him dating back to his first term as president: his former friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump sought to paint Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer as a hypocrite, saying he “goes crazy over this or that or Epstein, Epstein, Epstein” but instead should be concerned about Platner.

Later, Trump offered, “Can you imagine if the Republicans had him?”

Setting aside the allegations Trump has faced over the years, Republicans have had candidates who were accused of serious misconduct who nonetheless won Trump’s backing.

The president this year endorsed Republican Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton over incumbent GOP Sen. John Cornyn, though Paxton had faced state and federal corruption investigations and a 2023 state impeachment trial in which he was acquitted but publicly exposed his extramarital affair. Paxton has said allegations of wrongdoing were politically motivated.

Trump also didn’t back away from endorsing 2017 Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who was accused of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls decades earlier. Trump, at the time, noted Moore’s denials and said his vote was needed for Republican priorities. Moore’s eventual loss gave way to the first Alabama Democratic senator in a quarter-century.

He endorsed 2024 North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson and declined to rescind the backing after CNN reported that the candidate had made lewd and racist comments on a pornography website — though he did try to distance himself. Robinson, who later acknowledged making the posts, handily lost the general election in the swing state.

He similarly decided not to revoke his support for Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this year after the congressman acknowledged an affair with a staff member who later died by suicide. Gonzales ended his reelection bid, and Trump later endorsed someone else.

Trump also picked officials for his second-term Cabinet and other key offices who had been accused of some form of sexual misconduct.

That includes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was accused of sexual assault and denied it, and Trump’s initial choice for attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who faced a Justice Department sex trafficking investigation and a House Ethics Committee investigation into sexual misconduct.

Gaetz denied wrongdoing and withdrew his name from consideration. The DOJ investigation ended without federal charges against him.

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WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated former financial regulator Brian Johnson to lead the federal government’s top watchdog for consumer financial protection, according to a notice from the White House.

Johnson, currently a senior executive at Capital One, previously served as the number two official at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during Trump’s first term. In 2022, he joined the politically connected Washington consultancy Patomak Global Partners.

Last year, Trump and senior officials sought to abolish the agency and the White House is now moving to reduce it to a fraction of its former size.

Regarded as an expert in consumer financial law, Johnson was also a vocal conservative critic of the CFPB. He has testified before the U.S. Congress in favor of efforts to end the agency’s financial independence and reduce its funding, while also criticizing the agency’s regulations and enforcement actions.

Efforts to reach Johnson on Wednesday were unsuccessful. The Consumer Bankers Association, a principal industry lobby group, welcomed Johnson’s nomination, saying he had a “tenured background” steeped in policy.

Republicans have accused the CFPB of being a politicized burden on free enterprise while Democrats and agency defenders say damaging the agency amounts to a giveaway to industry at the expense of consumers.

The CFPB is currently led on an interim basis by Russell Vought, President Trump’s budget director, who has openly denounced the CFPB and initially vowed to shut it down. As those efforts have stalled in court, the administration now says it expects to reduce the CFPB workforce substantially. 

Congress created the CFPB in 2010 to protect consumers from predatory practices in the financial services sector that also helped underpin the 2008 financial crash.

(Reporting by Douglas Gillison, Costas Pitas and Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by Jasper Ward and David Gregorio)

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By Joseph Ax

June 10 (Reuters) – Florida’s Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block a new Republican-drawn congressional map ahead of November’s midterm elections, giving the party a boost in its effort to retain a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The decision all but guarantees that the map, which is aimed at flipping as many as four Democratic seats, will remain in place for this fall’s elections. The filing deadline for congressional candidates is on Friday, and the primary contests are scheduled for August.

In a 6-1 decision, the court ruled that it did not have the jurisdiction to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the map while it remains pending before a lower appeals court.

Democrats have challenged the new map as unlawful based on a state constitutional prohibition on drawing district lines to benefit one party over another, a process known as partisan gerrymandering. The plaintiffs had asked the high court to put the map on hold and order state officials to use the previous map until the lawsuit is resolved.

Redistricting typically occurs at the start of each decade following the decennial U.S. Census count. But President Donald Trump set off an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting fight last summer, when he pushed Texas Republicans to install a new, more friendly map.

Since then, both Republican- and Democratic-led states have sought to redraw their districts for partisan advantage.

Florida Republicans approved the state’s new map in late April, on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling hollowing out the Voting Rights Act’s protections for districts with significant racial minority populations. Several Republican-led Southern states rushed to capitalize on that decision by eliminating majority or near-majority Black districts, which typically favor Democrats.

Those efforts have helped Republicans build an advantage overall in the redistricting war, though Democrats may still capture a House majority given Trump’s weak approval ratings.

In a statement, Genesis Robinson, the executive director of advocacy group Equal Ground, which filed the lawsuit, said, “The Florida Supreme Court’s failure to stop this brazen partisan power grab is not only an assault on democracy, but an abdication of its duty to the people of Florida.”

Republicans already hold 20 of Florida’s 28 U.S. House seats.

(Reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Sonali Paul)

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By Jonathan Landay

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he is directing loyalist Bill Pulte to downsize the top U.S. intelligence office while he looks for a permanent head of the office, an apparent bid to placate lawmakers opposed to Pulte’s interim appointment.

But Trump said he was unwilling to meet a demand to withdraw Pulte by Democrats, whose votes are needed to extend a foreign surveillance program that expires on Friday.

The standoff on Capitol Hill over Trump’s choice of Pulte as acting head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has stalled renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

“I have named William Pulte to be Acting Director of National Intelligence, who will take over on June 19th, and have asked him to execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office, reverting staff to their home agencies,” Trump wrote.

“At the same time, I am looking for a permanent ODNI Nominee with experience in National Security.”

Trump called on Congress to send him a short-term extension of Section 702 to provide time to install a permanent director. 

Section 702 allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect emails, texts and cellphone data of foreigners believed to be located outside the United States without individual judicial warrants.

All but one Senate Democrat last week voted to block renewal of the warrantless foreign surveillance authority, citing Pulte’s lack of national security experience.

They also cited his use of confidential mortgage data to promote mortgage fraud investigations of several of Trump’s perceived political foes, expressing concern he could do the same with top-secret intelligence.

Seven Republicans also voted against proceeding with renewal of Section 702.

Some of those lawmakers seek greater protections for Americans’ information inadvertently collected when foreigners’ communications are monitored without warrants, while others have long voiced concerns about surveillance programs in general.

(Reporting by Jonathan Landay and Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by Andy Sullivan, Ryan Patrick Jones; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Nia Williams)

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Retired Air Force Lt. Col. David Flippo has won the Republican primary in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District after securing President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the closing weeks of the campaign.

The race, which was called Wednesday, put Trump opposite Republican Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo and retiring Rep. Mark Amodei, who both backed former state Sen. James Settelmeyer. Amodei announced he was retiring after 15 years, opening up a competitive primary for Nevada’s only Republican-held House seat.

Flippo said he will fight “relentlessly” for secure borders, American energy, tax cuts, national defense and “the America First agenda our country needs.”

“Nevada deserves a fighter, and that’s exactly what I will deliver,” he said in a statement.

Democrats had hoped for a Flippo victory, thinking it would make it easier for them to win over less partisan voters in November in the conservative-leaning district. They nominated the chief of staff to state Attorney General Aaron Ford, former majority floor leader Teresa Benitez-Thompson.

“I will ensure that Nevada families have an authentic Nevadan voice fighting for their needs in Washington DC,” Benitez-Thompson said in a Wednesday morning statement.

The 2nd District race is one of several Nevada contests that will be watched closely this year. In southern Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, Democratic Rep. Susie Lee will face Marty O’Donnell, a composer known for writing the soundtrack to the video game “Halo.”

Trump won the 3rd district in 2024 and backed O’Donnell, who thanked Trump in his victory statement.

Tuesday’s primary also set the general election contest for governor, with Ford defeating a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary and moving on to face Gov. Lombardo. The incumbent, a former Clark County sheriff, is running on his record of public safety and job creation while pledging to work on housing affordability in a second term.

Ford is tying Lombardo to Trump in placing blame for soaring prices across the state and has pledged to lower costs for families. He would be the state’s first Black governor if elected in November.

In other races for statewide offices, Republican primaries for attorney general and secretary of state included several candidates who had pushed election conspiracy theories or been skeptical of election operations. Adriana Guzmán Fralick, who has expressed concerns about voting security, won the GOP nomination for attorney general and will face Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro.

The Republican primary for secretary of state, the office that oversees elections, included Jim Marchant, a former state lawmaker who has said the 2020 election “ was probably stolen,” and Sharron Angle, a former state lawmaker who was part of an effort to block the certification of Nevada’s 2020 election results. Another candidate who was competitive in the race, Shirley Folkins-Roberts, is an attorney who has denied that there is widespread voting fraud in Nevada.

In the 2nd District race, Flippo said he understands issues important to the region, including mining, water rights and fuel prices. He sought to turn Settelmeyer’s long political record into a liability, pointing to votes he said did not match conservative values.

He moved to the district this election cycle after losing a race in southern Nevada in 2024. The 2nd District covers all northern Nevada. It mostly rural but includes the major battleground county of Washoe, home to Reno.

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