What to Watch in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina –

WASHINGTON (AP) – Primary voters to decide their fate on Tuesday Two South Carolina Republicans remain in their seats in the United States House of Representatives after Nevada’s defiance of Donald Trump Favorite institution With the former president’s support, faced more difficult than expects US Senate challenge.

Meanwhile in Maine a militant former governor who once said he was “Trump to Trump” Retired to Florida Challenge the opponent to his previous job.

Major Competitions On Tuesday, South Carolina, Nevada and Maine will offer the latest test of Trump’s political brand. Elections will also be held in North Dakota, though U.S. Republican Senator John Howen has not faced a serious opponent.

Trump backed former U.S. Senate Attorney General Adam Laxalt and Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo as governor. How well they do on Tuesday will measure the strength of Trump’s endorsement, which led to mixed results during the middle of the campaign period.

Laxalt’s political heritage helped him build a front. His grandfather Paul Laxalt was governor and senator of Nevada. And Laxalt’s father is the late U.S. Senator Pete Domenic of New Mexico, who publicly acknowledged his fatherhood for the first time in 2013. In addition to Trump, Laxalt also has the support of a large majority of lawmakers in Washington as he supposedly voted against the First. in November. Term Democratic Senator Catherine Corte MastoWho is considered one of the most vulnerable senators.

But Laxalt, who grew up especially close to Washington and served as the Navy’s Attorney General, faced a stronger challenge than expected.

Retired Army Captain Sam Brown, a West Point alumnus and Purple Heart recipient who was badly burned in Afghanistan, plays a conservative outsider. He attracted people and gained the support of people who found Laxalt very welcome in the facility. It also has the support of the Republican Party of Nevada.

Addressing the governor, Lombardo, the head of the Las Vegas Police Department, hopes to meet with Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak in November. But he must first overcome the main challenge of the Republican Party, former U.S. Senators Dean Heller and Joey Gilbert, a lawyer and former boxer, who were not in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Beyond the contest, the Republican State Party will also offer Trump’s grip on the GOP as secretary of state.

Nevada Republican Secretary of State Barbara Chegavsky has resigned because of the time limit law. In 2020 he rejected Trump’s pressure campaign to reverse his defeat in the state presidential election and vowed that he would not raise his finger on the ladder of democracy.

Six Republicans are vying for the seat, including Jim Marshant, a former state congressman who admitted to Trump’s lies about widespread election fraud in the state. His website reflects his position: my “number one priority is to review Nevada’s rigged electoral system.”

Democrats rallied behind candidate for Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, a lawyer who previously worked with Harry Reid, a former Democratic Senate leader who died last year.

Loyalty to Trump can be unstable. And its lack is the driving force behind the intense primary challenge of the U.S. House of Representatives for two Republicans in South Carolina.

Congresswoman Nancy Macy worked on Trump’s campaign in 2016 and got her approval when, four years later, she ousted current Democrat Joe Cunningham from the Coastal Swing District.

But shortly after he was sworn in, a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and Macy’s show on national television to say that “Trump’s entire legacy was destroyed” in the attack. Trump got angry and took on a rival, former state legislator Katie Arrington, who helped oust Mark Sanford from the American home in 2018.

But he also voted former Trump campaign manager Steve Benson out of disgust in Congress for refusing to cooperate with the investigation on Jan. 6. And he is publicly at odds with Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Green, a far- far-right and Trump’s ally from Georgia.

Macy’s isn’t the only candidate in South Carolina who has caused outrage.

Trump also appealed to opponents of U.S. Prime Minister Tom Rice after voting to impeach the president in the Jan. 6 uprising. Rice now faces six other Republicans, all of whom cited the impeachment vote as the main motivator of their campaign.

Trump finally met with State Representative Russell Fry’s advocate, who aired TV commercials reminding Rice’s criminals, along with Satan. Fry told voters in a recent debate that “we will vote to impeachment Tom Rice at the polls.”

Rice, on the other hand, has focused on important but more mundane issues, such as his success in funding flood remedies and providing assistance to farmers in the region during his five terms.

The Maine Governor’s primer is a simple formality A Democrat and a Republican Seeking office. But they are stuck in what is shaping the general election that will face the two long -time rivals against each other.

Democratic President-in-Office Janet Mills is seeking a Second Term. He was a former district attorney, state legislator, and Maine attorney general who often quarreled with Republican Paul Lepage when he was governor. Now he will drive it.

The fact that these two are also competing with each other is quite surprising.

Lepage, who once called himself “Trump before Trump existed,” moved to Florida after resigning in 2019 after two difficult terms that often caught the nation’s attention with his unscrupulous statements.

But the chosen position in the lottery seems too big. By 2020, he was back in Maine and vowed to deal with his former enemy, who had “wasted spending” and “heavy” pandemic directives.

Associated Press authors Meg Kinard of Columbia, SC, David Sharp of Portland, Maine, and Scott Sonner of Reno, Nevada contributed to this report.