Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, Virginia | September 30, 2021
Republican candidates tack toward right on abortion
Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, Virginia | September 30, 2021
Republicans across the country are working to appeal to the party’s anti-abortion voter base ahead of next year’s midterms elections by lurching further to the right on the deeply controversial issue than their primary competitors. In Nevada, former Sen. Dean Heller voiced his support for the near-total ban on abortion in Texas as he announced his campaign for governor. Meanwhile in Ohio, three Republican Senate candidates have very publicly thrown their support behind “fetal heartbeat” legislation. In New Hampshire, Gov. Chris Sununu (R), a potential Senate candidate, is facing backlash from Democrats for signing a state budget that included a ban on the procedure after 24 weeks of pregnancy and mandatory ultrasounds before abortions take place. The issue has also come up in other closely watched races, including in Virginia and Arizona. Despite facing backlash from Democrats on the issue, conservatives say the move to the right is essential for winning a Republican primary…. (Excerpts from The Hill)
Nevada | April 9, 2021
Pro-Life Democrat Mayor Becomes a Republican
Nevada | April 9, 2021
Another Democrat politician has left the party because of its increasingly radical pro-abortion agenda.
Fox News journalist Gregg Jarrett reports North Las Vegas, Nevada Mayor John Lee announced his switch to the Republican Party on Tuesday.
“When you’re a pro-life Democrat, a pro-gun Democrat, and you’re a very conservative person, that’s not really well known in the Democratic party anymore. And so for me to hang on as long as I did hoping the party would change, it didn’t. It got worse,” Lee told Fox & Friends.
Lee, a life-long Democrat up until now, became mayor of North Las Vegas in 2013. He was re-elected in 2017, according to the report.
The mayor expressed frustration with the Democratic Party’s increasing radicalism and its abandonment of working class Americans and small business owners as well as unborn babies.
“Though I’ve been a registered Democrat on paper my entire life, I made the switch in my heart a long time ago because, on some things, there’s simply no compromise,” Lee said in a statement. “It’s not the party that I grew up with 25 years ago in this environment, and it’s not the party that I can stand with anymore.”….
(Excerpts from LIFENEWS.COM)