I put Liberal in quotes, because it does not mean Classical Liberal here, but it is further repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Here is the story from NBC News.
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In another sign of the upcoming “weenies and beans” time for the Republican Party, the voters of Waukesha, Wisconsin, an affluent suburb of Milwaukee elected Alicia Halvensleben, the Democratic president of the city’s Common Council, as Mayort. She defeated State Representative Scott Allen, a Republican, which continues a succession of Trump-era mayoral wins for Democrats.
In your correspondent’s opinion, it is time to retire the saying “All politics is local.” If anything, the reverse is true. Another example: in November 2017, Virginia House of Delegates elections in Northern Virginia were nearly entirely swept by Democrats. Was that due to the incumbent delegates’ voting records in the Virginia House of Delegates? No, it was due to Donald Trump.
Clayton Fuller, the Republican candidate, won the Special Election in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. He will replace Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned during her third term in the US House of Representatives.
Fuller defeated Democratic candidate Shawn Harris by 55.9% to 44.1%. In the 2024 General Election for this seat, Marjorie Taylor Greene polled 64.4% of the vote in a two-way race, for a decline of 8.5 percentage points for Fuller in a strongly Republican congressional district.
According to this story, the Alabama Committee that handles election law bills will take up the bill to convert primaries from open to closed on April 7.
On April 6, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously that Maine can’t use Ranked Choice Voting for general elections for state office unless the Constitution is changed. Opinion of the Justices, 2026 ME 32. Here is the Opinion.