JOHN HOEVEN

A Republican winning at an NDGOP convention, be it statewide or local, is a bit like a baseball team being the champion of the spring training league. It's not a bad thing. It also doesn't mean much.

Republican Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer both said they plan to oppose Jackson's confirmation. The Biden nominee has drawn the support of three other GOP members and is expected to win enough support in the Senate to become the country's first Black woman Supreme Court justice.

That last thing we need is another political leader with a god complex.

Rob Port and Chad Oban react to the outcomes at the NDGOP's 2022 convention.

Hoeven wins the NDGOP's convention endorsement.

From Rep. Madison Cawthorn's coke orgy fabulisms to the chaos in the NDGOP around Rick Becker's Senate campaign, we are seeing what happens when we reward spectacle over competence.

"This group has improperly used logos and images from the NDGOP’s official website on its website and press releases to mislead delegates into believing it is associated with the NDGOP," NDGOP Chairman Perrie Schafer wrote to delegates. "I want to make clear to you that these communications are not from the NDGOP and do not represent the NDGOP State Committee’s position on the applicable rules for this weekend’s Convention, and the NDGOP has not consented to or authorized this rogue group’s use of the NDGOP’s logos and images."

In true Trumpian form, U.S. Senate candidate Rick Becker's followers seemingly think they can ignore election law when it doesn't produce the results they want.

"My heart is beating so fast," one visibly agitated delegate told a candidate for the Democratic-NPL Senate endorsement in the process of accusing him of cultural appropriation.