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Missouri GOP nominee Thomas Ross charged over plot to plant drugs on primary election rival

According to prosecutors, Ross spent weeks hatching a plan with his campaign manager to frame his opponent, Louise Secker, by surreptitiously placing a black nylon glove containing a bag of cocaine.

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The seal of the FBI hangs in the Flag Room at the bureau's headquaters.
Rep. Randy Fine, the Jewish Republican incumbent in Florida’s 6th Congressional District, won his primary against social media personality Dan Bilzerian on Tuesday. Here, Fine addresses The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York, June, 2026.

US Rep. Randy Fine attacks Muslim Democrats during speech at Republican Jewish Coalition summit

“We are constantly told that the problem is not mainstream Islam, but radical Islamism. But where are the so-called moderate Muslims in our political system?” Fine said to applause.

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(L-r) Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, joins Maryland U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin and Michigan U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell for a town hall in Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 26, 2026.

Abdul El-Sayed and Jamie Raskin sidestep Hasan Piker, and Israel, in Michigan campaign stops

Questions about Piker, and how close the movement he represents may come to remaking the Democratic Party’s values, hang over Michigan’s Senate race.

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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) with voters on July 4, 2026 in Sunrise, Fla.

Republican redistricting tests the strength of Florida’s pro-Israel Democrats

Among these solidly blue districts are those where veteran Democrats, Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Lois Frankel, are competing on Tuesday.

|BySHARON UDASIN/ JTA

Comparing COVID policies, Holocaust is justified - Minn. GOP gov. nominee

Although former state Sen. Scott Jensen is not the first GOP politician to compare mask mandates to Nazi rule, he seems to be more persistent in the belief.

AUGUST 25, 2022ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Former Minnesota State Sen. Scott Jensen

GOP nominee for Arizona governor denounces endorsee’s statement that Jews are ‘evil’

“Outline and detail the evil. Amen,” Jackson wrote. “The Jews. Illuminati. Covid shots kill. Rothschilds. Communists. Woke pastors. Social gospel. Christ will chuck a bunch of stuff in the fire.”

AUGUST 23, 2022ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
Arizona State Highway welcome sign

Controversial Texas GOP platform would ‘prohibit’ Palestinian state

The Texas platform also rejects Joe Biden's presidency and calls homosexuality an "abnormal lifestyle choice."

JUNE 22, 2022ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
Texas State Capitol.

Photos of far-right GOP Rep. Cawthorn partying in lingerie shared online

The 26-year-old lawmaker has been extremely vocal in the past about his devout and traditional Christian beliefs and has urged the US government to uphold Christian principles. 

APRIL 24, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rep. Madison Cawthorn arrives for a House Republican conference meeting in the US Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, DC, May 12, 2021.

Ex-wife of Jewish Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens accuses him of domestic abuse

GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens, 47, a former Navy SEAL and Missouri's first Jewish governor, had considered a presidential run prior to a 2018 sex scandal that led to his resignation.

MARCH 22, 2022ByHALEY COHEN
Missouri Governor Eric Greitens appears in a police booking photo in St. Louis

Idaho GOP tried to install antisemite in Democratic leadership

Idaho's Republican Party tried to elect a far-right extremist as Democratic Party leader of Kootenai county.

MARCH 15, 2022ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
A campaign photo of David Reilly, who ran for a school board in western Idaho last year.

Senate GOP Twitter account stops following virulently antisemitic account after reporter’s query

The most recent tweet from Nov. 1 2016 reads,"Obnoxious Jews Cause Decline in Bud Light Sales."

FEBRUARY 3, 2022ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
TWITTER’S LOGO is seen on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week.

GOP Sen. Linsey Graham is reliably unreliable - opinion

Graham defines being a Republican today as being unswervingly loyal to Donald Trump – not the party and certainly not the principles on which our democracy rests.

FEBRUARY 2, 2022ByDOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, then-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaks during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in 2020.

QAnon forces shut-down of butterfly center amid sex trafficking claims

A Republican congressional candidate, MAGA supporters and QAnon conspiracists blamed a butterfly center for trafficking sex workers across the border with Mexico.

JANUARY 28, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A US border patrol agent looks over the Rio Grande river at the border between United States and Mexico, in Roma, Texas, US, May 11, 2017

Bob Dole: A Republican who would never make it in today's GOP - opinion

Dole actively advocated for food stamps, child nutrition, persons with disabilities, veterans and international relief, all anathema in today’s GOP.

DECEMBER 8, 2021ByDOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD
THEN-US PRESIDENTIAL nominee Bob Dole addresses the B’nai B’rith International Convention in Washington in September 1996, pledging a stronger and closer relationship with the Netanyahu government.