Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: Congress President Kharge unveils next course of action as INDIA Bloc crosses 230-mark
This comes after the Election Commission of India declared results for 542 of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, with the BJP winning 240 seats and the Congress 99.
State Auditor Troy Downing wins GOP primary for Montana seat held by Rep. Matt Rosendale
State Auditor Troy Downing has won the Republican primary race for Montana’s 2nd Congressional District, a seat currently held by Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., who is not seeking re-election. Rosendale has held the seat for several terms, launching a long anticipated Senate bid in February before dropping out just one week later. Weeks after jumping out of the Senate race, the Republican announced he would not seek re-election – leaving the GOP seat open. ROSENDALE SUSPENDS HOUSE RACE, WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION IN MONTANA: ‘TAKEN A SERIOUS TOLL ON ME’ Downing, the state’s auditor, faced a large pool of GOP opposition, including a former congressman, Denny Rehberg. CONSERVATIVE FIREBRAND SPOTLIGHTS TRUMP CONVICTION IN ATTACK AD ON VULNERABLE DEM SENATOR Former President Trump endorsed Downing on Monday, just one day before Tuesday’s primary. “Troy Downing is running to represent the fantastic people of Montana’s 2nd Congressional District. As Montana’s very popular State Auditor, Troy is a Combat Veteran and successful entrepreneur who knows how to create jobs, protect our Military, and represent Montana values in Congress,” Trump posted on his Truth Social account. “Troy will fight to Lower Inflation, Secure our Border, Champion American Energy Independence, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment. Troy Downing has my Complete and Total Endorsement!”
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Results: How INDIA Bloc can form government, know scenarios here
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Results: The Opposition INDIA bloc has reversed all exit poll predictions, winning 232 seats and the BJP-led NDA winning 292 seats.
Rep. Miller-Meeks beats back conservative primary challenge in Iowa race
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, on Tuesday fended off a conservative GOP primary challenge, setting up what is expected to be a close race this fall with a Democratic challenger. Miller-Meeks won against David Pautsch, an advertising executive, former Army tuba player and Gold Star father in the race for the GOP’s nomination for the 1st congressional district. Miller-Meeks was first elected to Congress in 2020 by a slim margin of just six votes but expanded that advantage in 2022. TRUMP, BIDEN FACE TESTS IN FINAL 2024 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES She had racked up a sizable financial advantage over her challenger, entering the final stretch of the primary campaign with nearly $1.9 million in the bank, compared with just slightly more than $6,000 for Pautsch. She had touted endorsements from Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird. Pautsch, meanwhile, picked up the endorsements from Trump allies, including former Gov. Mike Huckabee and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell. By mid-May, Miller-Meeks had spent about $1.4 million on the race, nearly 50 times what Pautsch spent. Both had made conservative appeals in the primary race. Miller-Meeks described herself as a “proven conservative,” while Pautsch accused her of voting “against you and the Republican platform over 40% of the time.” REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS CHARGE BIDEN HAS ‘DONE NOTHING BUT ATTACK AMERICAN ENERGY’ Pautsch had criticized Miller-Meeks for not being tough enough on abortion, immigration and the national debt, according to The Des Moines Register. And he accused her of being a Republican in name only (RINO). He also criticized her for voting to certify President Biden’s presidential election. Miller-Meeks dismissed the criticism as something to be expected in a typical primary campaign and has also pointed to her A+ rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and her vote to pass the House border security bill in 2023. “I think the most important thing to realize about primaries is that, on the Republican side, your primary opponent is going to go to your right, and on the Democrat side, your primary opponent is going to go to your left,” she said, according to the Register. “And it’s up to you to be able to explain why you vote the way you vote.” Miller-Meeks will now face former state Rep. Christina Bohannan, who is unopposed in the Democratic primary. Miller-Meeks defeated Bohannan in the 2022 general election, 53% to 47%. The 1st district as a whole went for former President Trump in the 2020 election, voting for him by about three percentage points over President Biden. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Firearms executive wins Dem nomination in Montana gubernatorial primary
Former senior firearms sales executive Ryan Busse has won the Democrat nomination in the Montana gubernatorial race to unseat Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte in November. While most of Montana’s statewide leadership are currently Republican, the state’s governor’s seat was occupied by a Democrat for nearly a decade before being flipped red in 2020 by Gianforte. Busse detailed his views on what he described as the “climate crisis,” having a pro-abortion stance, his pro-Second Amendment viewpoint and access to public land on his campaign website. TRUMP, BIDEN FACE TESTS IN FINAL 2024 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES Busse worked as sales executive of a major firearms company for 25 years, saying on his campaign site that he supports gun ownership, but “also saw how unchecked extremism risks all gun owners’ rights—and how that extremism could take away American freedoms and even jeopardize our democracy.” Busse is running with candidate for lieutenant governor, Raph Graybill.
Former Navy SEAL Ryan Zinke wins GOP Montana primary
Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., has won the Republican primary against Mary Todd in the race to hold onto his Big Sky State seat in Montana’s 1st Congressional District. Zinke served as Secretary of the Interior under former President Trump for several years before launching a successful bid for Montana’s newly drawn district in the 2022 midterms. RILEY GAINES UNLEASHES ON RED STATE DEM CANDIDATE AFTER FOOTAGE REVEALS ‘IGNORANT’ STANCE ON SCHOOL SPORTS Zinke won the 2022 midterm race against Democratic opponent Monica Tranel, who is running again for the seat in 2024 despite her loss last cycle. The former Navy SEAL is a fifth-generation Montanan, serving 23 years in the military before entering politics to complete another mission of “upholding the Constitution and doing what is right for Montana and America.”
Montana’s GOP governor fends off challenge from the right, wins primary race
Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana., won the Republican primary in the state’s gubernatorial race. Gianforte was first elected to serve as governor of the Big Sky State in 2020, flipping the seat red and ousting the Democrat who occupied the seat for several years. Before becoming the state’s 25th governor, Gianforte was a businessman and spent decades working in the private sector. TRUMP, BIDEN FACE TESTS IN FINAL 2024 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES In securing the Republican nomination, Gianforte defeated state Representative Tanner J. Smith in the Tuesday night primary. The Governor was backed by former President Donald Trump in his 2020 race, but has not yet received an endorsement from the 2024 GOP presidential nominee at this point in the race.
Trump campaign opens office in blue city: ‘Good strides in the Black community’
PHILADELPHIA – First-term Republican Rep. Welsey Hunt was a long way from his home state of Texas on Tuesday. The military veteran and Donald Trump surrogate was in Philadelphia to headline the opening of the former president’s first campaign office in Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state in Trump’s 2024 election rematch with President Biden. “The person that’s going to come back and save this country from the brink is Donald John Trump,” Hunt, a Black Republican and rising star in the GOP, told supporters and reporters packed into a small office in the northeastern corner of the city.” While Trump’s fundraising has surged in the wake of his conviction last week in the first criminal trial of a current or former president, and while he holds the edge over Biden in the latest polling in most of the key swing states, Trump and the Republican National Committee are currently facing a large deficit to the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee when it comes to grassroots out reach and get-out-the-vote efforts. TRUMP LAUNCHES EARLY VOTING PUSH, IN MAJOR REVERSAL FROM 2020 STANCE The Biden campaign notes that they’ve hired over 500 staff and opened more than 175 coordinated offices across battleground states. And in Pennsylvania, which was one of six states Biden narrowly carried in 2020 to win the White House, the president’s re-election campaign and the DNC and the state party have 24 coordinated offices and hundreds of staffers. TRUMP GUILTY VERDICT IN CRIMINAL TRIAL FIRES UP HIS FUNDRAISING The president, a Pennsylvania native, has made numerous official and campaign stops in the state – and Philadelphia in particular – since launching his re-election campaign over a year ago. And last week, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in Philadelphia together for the first time. “We do need to catch up a little bit, but we are going to open offices all over the state of Pennsylvania,” Vince Fenerty, the GOP chair in Philadelphia and a ward leader for over 50 years, told Fox News. But Fenerty emphasized that “we have the time to catch up. People are going to jump on the Trump train and the locomotive is going to move fast.” “We did it in this part of the city because it’s ethnically diverse, racially diverse, and we want to start here because we want to build a very broad coalition of all Americans to be for President Trump,” Fenerty noted. Philadelphia is overwhelmingly blue. Biden carried the city 81%-18% four years ago over Trump. But Hunt, in an interview with Fox News, highlighted that “we are going bravely where no Republicans in the past 20-30 years have gone before. We are not playing catch up. We are actually fishing where the fish are.” “We know that we are making some very good strides in the Black community, and among Hispanic men and Hispanic women,” Hunt added. “So guess what – we are here right now not playing catch up, but to put the final nail in the coffin.” Kellan White, a senior adviser for the Pennsylvania Democratic coordinated campaign, fired back, telling Fox News that “Donald Trump is a convicted felon who couldn’t find an actual Pennsylvanian to headline his phony event.” And he charged that Trump has “spent years running racist campaigns, implementing a racist agenda, and hurting Black communities every chance he got as president. In stark contrast, Joe Biden is fighting and delivering for Pennsylvanians — especially for Black Pennsylvanians — by capping the cost of insulin at $35 per month for seniors, creating over 500,000 good paying jobs in Pennsylvania alone, and protecting our democracy and reproductive freedoms.” The office opening in Philadelphia came a couple of hours after the Trump campaign and the RNC announced the launch of what they call “Swamp The Vote USA,” a new push to encourage Republicans to vote early in person or by absentee ballot. The Trump campaign says the new effort to promote early voting is part of the recently announced Trump Force 47 program, the campaign and the RNC’s neighbor-to-neighbor grassroots organizing program “that focuses on mobilizing highly-targeted voters in critical precincts across the battleground states and districts.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Trump-endorsed Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy wins Republican nomination in Montana Senate race to unseat Jon Tester
Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy has won the Republican nomination in a field of three candidates in the highly anticipated Montana Senate race to unseat the red state’s Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. Sheehy secured the nomination during Tuesday’s primary, after strong support from conservative leadership in Congress made him the GOP pick to take on the three-term Democrat. “America is at a crossroads and we need a new generation of leaders to save our country. Joe Biden and Jon Tester’s reckless agenda has brought us skyrocketing food, housing, and energy prices and an open border allowing illegal immigrants, drugs, and crime to flood into our country,” Sheehy said in a statement after the race was called. WAPO ‘SMEAR’ OF HIGHLY-DECORATED IRAQ WAR VETERAN, SENATE CANDIDATE OMITS CRITICAL INFO “As a Navy SEAL, I’ve always put country before self and I’m running for the U.S. Senate to end Joe Biden and Jon Tester’s inflation, seal our border, secure our children’s future, and put America First! I am humbled and honored by all the support and look forward to finally retiring the #1 recipient of lobbyist cash and pro-Biden liberal Jon Tester,” he continued. The Navy SEAL defeated Montana’s former Secretary of State Brad Johnson in the primary race. The conservative, a Purple Heart recipient, was also endorsed by GOP presidential nominee and former President Trump, who said he is an “American hero.” DEM HIT WITH $15 MILLION BORDER-RELATED AD BLITZ IN ‘TOSS-UP’ SENATE RACE “I LOVE MONTANA!” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social account. “Tim Sheehy is an American Hero and highly successful Businessman from the Great State of Montana. He is strongly supported by our incredible Chairman of the NRSC, Steve Daines, and many other patriotic Senators and Republicans who have endorsed our Campaign to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Republicans are eyeing the Big Sky State as one of their best chances at taking back control of the Senate, as Democrat Tester attempts to hold onto his seat in the red state for a fourth term. Tester paints himself as a moderate in the Senate, but Sheehy has charged that he changes his positions in election years. “You know this is what he does. Five years out of every six he’s a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, firm progressive. Votes lockstep with Schumer, Biden and every other progressive in the country,” Sheey told Fox in November. “And then, for his election year, he tries to shift back to the center and act like he’s a moderate.” Sheehy quickly became the Senate Republicans’ choice to take on Tester on the November ballot, receiving endorsements from Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Ted Budd, R-N.C., Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and John Barrasso, R-Wyo. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The Navy SEAL was also endorsed by Montana’s Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte and Gov. Kristi Noem, R-S.D.
Three-term Sen. Jon Tester wins Montana Democrat primary in crucial race that could determine Senate control
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has won the Democratic primary over his opponent Michael Hummert in the Montana Senate race – a heated contest that could determine which party controls the chamber next cycle. Tester, a three-term senator, is running for re-election in red state Montana, and his seat has been eyed by Republicans as one of their best pickup opportunities of the 2024 cycle. Tester has painted himself as a more moderate Democrat, releasing a memo in May of “Tester’s long-standing track record standing up to President Biden,” laying out where he apparently disagrees with Biden on a variety of issues. CONSERVATIVE FIREBRAND SPOTLIGHTS TRUMP CONVICTION IN ATTACK AD ON VULNERABLE DEM SENATOR Tester is a three-generation Montana farmer, but faces strong 2024 opposition as the only Democrat to hold a statewide position in the state. Tester faces opposition from former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, who is seen by GOP leadership as the best candidate to take on Tester in the general election. Sheehy has been endorsed by most of the GOP leadership, including all statewide Republicans in Montana, such as Sen. Steve Daines, Rep. Ryan Zinke and Gov. Greg Gianforte. The 2024 Senate map sees Democrats defending 23 out of 34 seats up in 2024, making Montana one of the Democrats’ most vulnerable seats of the cycle.