Lisa Demuth's 30-second governor's ad stands outside Eden Prairie High School and says Minnesota needs 'safe communities, not Somali gang shootouts.' A University of Minnesota political scientist called it 'very racist.' Demuth didn't respond — and as House Speaker, she blocked a vote on an assault-weapons ban after the Annunciation shooting.
Mike Moyski and Jackie Flavin say House Speaker Lisa Demuth sat in their living room after their 10-year-old daughter Harper was killed at Annunciation Catholic Church and promised not to block a floor vote on an assault-weapons ban. When the Senate passed one, she kept it off the House floor — and later bragged to GOP activists that she 'led the effort to stop Democrats from taking our guns.'
Lisa Demuth's general-election pitch is bipartisan and pragmatic. To win her party's nomination, she told activists she 'fights and wins for the MAGA agenda.' She wrote a fetal-heartbeat abortion ban, blocked an assault-weapons ban after the Annunciation shooting, and still won't say Joe Biden legitimately won in 2020.
Vivek Ramaswamy says that as governor he would change Ohio law so 18- to 20-year-olds can buy handguns. He also dismisses the red flag laws and background checks most gun owners support, in a state where guns were the leading cause of death for kids in 2024.
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Brandon Herrera, the Trump-endorsed Republican running for Congress in Texas, attacked mothers organizing against school shootings after Sandy Hook by calling their children "cum trophies."
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Brandon Herrera turned the Uvalde massacre into gun content.
At this week's debate, Susan Collins answered a question about being out of touch by recalling a year without health insurance. Within weeks of that 1994 loss she was running a center funded by Bushmaster's owner, a donor. A decade later she voted for the law that shields gunmakers from lawsuits — a law he had pushed hard for.
The ATF's proposed rule would let gun buyers verify their identity online and get a gun shipped to their door. The gun industry's own trade group says its members are 'overwhelmingly opposed' — and the president's son sits on the board of a company built to profit from it.
A CNN review of Brandon Herrera's videos, podcasts and social media found years of comments mocking women's weight, looks and intelligence. He called them jokes. He is the Republican nominee in a district whose last congressman resigned during a House Ethics investigation into sexual misconduct allegations, and his opponent is a woman.