Barletta wins Republican nomination for US Senate

PA-Sen Trump backing GOP candidate in PA primary in hopes of unseating Democratic incumbent in fall

PA-Sen Trump backing GOP candidate in PA primary in hopes of unseating Democratic incumbent in fall

Hazleton approved Barletta's measures in 2006, denying permits to businesses that hire people in the country illegally and fining landlords who rent to them, but they were never enforced before the U.S. Supreme Court struck them down in 2014.

Casey is the son of a former Pennsylvania governor and is among 10 Democratic senators seeking re-election in states won by Trump. The GOP contest for U.S. Senate was sleepier but could still play a role come November in deciding whether Republicans maintain control of the chamber.

From the Associated Press: Trump's pick for U.S. Senate, Rep. Lou Barletta, won the Republican nomination in Pennsylvania. Bob Casey in November's election.

Last week, Trump urged GOP Senate primary voters to support Rep. Jim Renacci in the Ohio Senate and oppose former coal company executive Don Blankenship in West Virginia. Trump asked Barletta to run for Senate and is expected to campaign for him. Barletta is a favorite of Trump, whom Barletta endorsed in 2016.

Barletta's campaign said Saturday it sent a recorded telephone call of Trump criticizing Casey and telling hundreds of thousands of registered Republicans why he supports Barletta "fully, strongly, and proudly", CNBC reported. Seven of these 18 seats are vacant, due largely to the departures of 5 Republican lawmakers who both have resigned or should not operating once more. Renacci received and Blankenship misplaced. Pennsylvania first started allowing lieutenant governors to serve a second term in the 1970s.

Fetterman had made a failed bid in 2016 for the U.S. Senate.

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State Rep. Knute Buehler has emerged from a crowded primary to capture the Republican nomination for OR governor.

Buehler, who ran for secretary of state in 2012, was the most centrist of the Republican front-runners. Brown in 2016 became the first openly bisexual person to be elected governor of a state.

OR is among eight states where Democrats control the governorship and both houses of the state legislature.

In Havertown - a Philadelphia suburb that used to be in a majority-Republican congressional district but is now in a newly reshaped majority-Democratic district - Republican voter Eileen McCormick cast her ballot at a Presbyterian church on Tuesday but seemed resigned to her party's chances in November.

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