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Far right Idaho Republicans fight for control
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 76686315" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/07/idaho-gop-primary-elections-00030788?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark" target="_blank">Idaho GOP riven by primary civil war</a></strong></span></p><p>A charged-up version of the divisions playing out nationally set off primaries against the sitting governor, attorney general and a congressman.</p><p></p><p>“Some people would describe it as conservative, and then far-right conservative,” said Tom Luna, the chair of the state Republican Party.</p><p></p><p>It’s not just Gov. Brad Little, whose reelection campaign became national news when Donald Trump endorsed a primary challenge from Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin. The state attorney general is staring down a challenge from a former rabble-rousing member of Congress. The senior of Idaho’s two GOP House members is facing a primary that has drawn millions in spending. And contentious open races for lieutenant governor and the secretary of state — Idaho’s chief election official — echo some of the national divisions within the party.</p><p></p><p>The normally invisible secretary of state race illustrates the situation. Two of the three <a href="https://idahocapitalsun.com/2022/04/26/two-of-three-idaho-gop-secretary-of-state-candidates-deny-biden-won-2020-election/" target="_blank">candidates running in the GOP primary</a> — state Sen. Mary Souza and state Rep. Dorothy Moon — said they did not believe that President Joe Biden fairly won the 2020 election. Ada County Clerk Phil McGrane, who oversees elections in the state’s most populous county, said that Biden did win the election.</p><p></p><p>“It’s just this national rhetoric, and running to a narrative created by Trump that he started when he knew he was going to lose, and started telling the lie,” said Ahlquist, who is critical of the far-right slate of candidates. “And that filters down to Republicans in our state. And in a state as red as ours, that’s still the narrative because that’s what they do to get elected.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
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