republican

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An oyster farmer and Marine veteran, Platner had entered the race to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins as an outsider and was seen as riding an anti-establishment wave of support.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2026

Instead, since February, he has voted in Collin County twice: once in the March Republican primary and once in the May runoff.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2026

The weeks-long hospitalization of Mitch McConnell, the former Republican leader in the US Senate, was rattling his party's narrow majority on Tuesday as members awaited word on whether he would return.

From Barron's • Jul. 7, 2026

The votes of rural communities could be decisive in a key Senate race between former Democratic U.S. representative Mary Peltola and incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan that political observers expect will be tight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026

Throughout the Adams presidency, Jefferson and his Republican followers had been insisting that the French Revolution was the American Revolution on European soil and that France was therefore America’s major international ally.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis