ELECTIONS 2024
“Even if it was one vote, that was all we really cared about.”
Fifteen incumbents lost on Tuesday. The Legislature appears poised to shift further to the right. And outside PAC money made the primaries more costly and more caustic.
INSIDE: A list of the 15 incumbents who lost Tuesday. Plus, one legislative race flipped in the middle of the night, and it’s potentially a big one for education.
Incumbent education leaders fared well in GOP contests — with one exception.
House Education’s anti-voucher wall may be coming down, while the Senate has lost its most powerful school choice proponent.
Measures pass in Salmon, Mountain View, and West Ada; McCall’s bond and West Bonner’s levy fail.
We asked candidates about their most important education priorities and where they stand on controversial education issues dividing the Legislature.
A complicated — and competing — network of outside groups has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into Tuesday’s legislative primaries. Let’s try to untangle the spider web.
Tuesday’s GOP primary represents yet another showdown between the Republicans’ mainstream and hardline factions. But the rift along the GOP’s right flank can’t be dismissed, either.
Several of the donations went to lawmakers who have sided with the U of I in its bid to buy the University of Phoenix.