2022 midterm election thread

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Conway Leading in Race to Fill Devin Nunes’ Vacant Congressional Seat
by Dustin Manduffie
June 7, 2022

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(Courthouse News) — Republican Connie Conway was poised to win the race to replace Devin Nunes in representing California’s 22nd Congressional District as of late Tuesday evening.

Former California Assembly leader Connie Conway, a Republican, faced off against California Department of Water Resources operations manager Lourin Hubbard, a Democrat, in Tuesday’s special runoff election to determine who will finish out Devin Nunes’ congressional term.

As of 10:30 p.m. Pacific Time Tuesday, Conway led second-place candidate Hubbard by 8,399 votes, 57.6% to 42.4%, with 34.2% of precincts partially reporting.

Whomever replaces Nunes will only spend a few months in Congress because District 22 is disappearing on January 3, 2023, after being redrawn based on the 2020 census and absorbed into neighboring districts. Governor Gavin Newsom scheduled a special primary election for April 5 to fill Nunes’ vacant seat, but no candidate in that race received a majority of votes, setting the stage for the June 7 runoff.
Read more here: https://www.courthousenews.com/special ... nal-seat/
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California Primary Election Results: Alex Padilla, Mark Meuser Advance in Both U.S. Senate Races
June 8, 2022

Introduction:
(KCRA 3) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This year's primary elections is something of a political anomaly for one of California's U.S. Senate seats.

Voters will decide on who they want to serve the rest of the Senate seat left vacant by Kamala Harris when she became vice president. Alex Padilla, who was appointed to temporarily fill the position, will advance to the November election for the seat that expires Jan. 3, 2023.
Republican Mark Meuser will also advance to the special election and general election.

The same seat is also on the ballot, the second one being a full six-year term that begins after the partial term expires. Padilla will advance for this race as well.
Read more here: https://www.kcra.com/ article/2022-ca ... 1adc69d319

Edit: Apparently, the KCRA link has been broken. For California primary election results, you can also visit this link: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/ ... 86022.html
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Gov. Newsom Cruises to Easy Primary Victory, Will Face GOP's Dahle
June 8, 2022

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(KCRA 3) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom cruised to an easy victory in Tuesday’s primary barely one year after surviving a recall attempt, advancing to the November general election where he will be an overwhelming favorite to defeat a little-known Republican state senator.

Early returns Tuesday showed Newsom receiving just over 60% of the votes. He'll face second-place finisher Brian Dahle, a Republican state lawmaker and farmer from the sparsely populated northeast corner of the state. He had about 15% of the votes.
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The Pa. Senate race recount is complete and the results show how accurate the vote count was
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania’s recount is over, and the results are clear: The vote count was accurate the first time. Mehmet Oz beat David McCormick by less than 1,000 votes in the Republican Senate primary — roughly the same margin as after the votes were first counted. The numbers budged ever so slightly in some counties. But they didn’t change in any significant way. The recount didn’t magically find new votes, or expose major errors or any fraud.

Elections officials and experts said the fact that the numbers barely shifted — in counties big and small, Democratic and Republican — should build public trust. “The recount tells us that we should absolutely have faith and confidence in our elections,” said Lisa Deeley, the Democratic chief of elections for Philadelphia, the state’s largest and bluest county. “Every election, I make sure that those numbers are right. So the recount’s really not going to change anything,” said Florence Kellett, the Republican elections director for Wyoming County, a red county that’s one of Pennsylvania’s smallest.

“People can be really confident that the results are the results, and they’re not going to change very much,” said Thad Hall, a registered independent who runs elections in Mercer County, a mid-sized Republican county. Oz gained one vote in Philly, none in Wyoming County, and two in Mercer. McCormick lost two votes in Philly and saw his numbers stay exactly the same in Wyoming and Mercer.

This was Pennsylvania’s second statewide recount in a row, but the two took place under very different circumstances. This one was a GOP primary, the other was a general election between Democrats and Republicans. This one was a high-profile U.S. Senate race, the other was a low-key judicial contest. Both recounts affirmed the initial results and underscored the accuracy of the system.
Read more: https://www.inquirer.com/politics/elect ... 20608.html
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2022 Generic Congressional Ballot Poll:

Democrats 39% (+2)
Republicans 37%

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This Christian Nationalist Won 3.4 Percent of the Vote in Georgia’s GOP Gubernatorial Primary — and Refused to Concede
by Alex Henderson
June 9, 2022

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(Alternet) In Georgia’s 2022 GOP gubernatorial primary, one of the candidates was even more extreme than former Sen. David Perdue: Christian nationalist and far-right conspiracy theorist Kandiss Taylor, whose campaign theme was “Jesus, guns and babies.” Taylor campaigned on ridding Georgia’s government of Satanic influence, winning only 3.4 percent of the vote when the primary was held on May 24. But Taylor, in true MAGA fashion, is claiming that the election results are false — and in order to prove it, she is asking Georgia residents to sign notarized affidavits saying that they voted for her.

The primary was a humiliation for former President Donald Trump and a colossal victory for incumbent Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who defeated Perdue by 52 percent. Perdue, endorsed by Trump, campaigned on the Big Lie, falsely claiming that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump and slamming Kemp for acknowledging that now-President Joe Biden legitimately won in Georgia.

But after his loss, Perdue wasted no time congratulating Kemp — and he is now urging Georgia Republicans to vote for the conservative Georgia governor, who is competing with Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams in the general election. Kemp narrowly defeated Abrams in Georgia’s gubernatorial election of 2018.
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For Some GOP Primary Losers, Total Loyalty to Donald Trump Wasn’t Enough
by Alex Henderson
June 9, 2022

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(Alternet) Former President Donald Trump continues to insist that he has the golden touch where GOP primaries are concerned, bragging that an endorsement from him is the key to victory.

Discussing some Republican primaries held on Tuesday, June 7, Petrizzo observes, “In New Jersey, MAGA-aligned candidates floundered in their quest to take down incumbent Republicans, who found victory without too many headaches from their fervently pro-Trump challengers. Nowhere was this more evident than in New Jersey’s 4th Congressional District, where former Right Side Broadcasting Network host Mike Crispi lost to long-time Republican Rep. Christopher Smith…. Elsewhere, in New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, Republican candidate and former State Sen. Thomas Kean, Jr. left both more-MAGA-loving candidates Phil Rizzo and former local Assemblyman Erik Peterson in the dust.”

“In California’s 40th Congressional District, which includes parts of Orange County, voters overwhelmingly supported Republican Rep. Young Kim (CA),” Petrizzo observes. “While the votes are still being counted, Kim is expected to pull out a win and clinch the run-off slot, which would knock off hardcore MAGA candidate Greg Raths. Raths campaign has been plagued by accusations that he made anti-Semitic comments.”

Mark Rozell, a dean of politics at George Mason University, discussed the June 3 primaries with the Beast, arguing, “There is a message here to many Republican incumbents to stop fearing being primaried, that the power of incumbency remains formidable, and that many voters in the party are looking past Trump now. Quite simply, the diminished ex-president doesn’t command the same power within the party that he did a few years ago.”
Read more here: https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/prima ... ld-trump/
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How Democrats Plan to Win Big in Georgia Again
by Nicole Narea
June 10, 2022


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(Vox) Grassroots groups have helped turn the once reliably red Georgia into a battleground over the course of the last two election cycles. Now, Democrats are hoping that they — and the multiracial coalition they assembled — can deliver another miracle in 2022.

Groups like the voter registration group New Georgia Project and Black Voters Matter have worked for years, some for more than a decade, to mobilize the political power of Black voters and other voters of color in the state. Those minority voters make up 40 percent of the electorate, but have historically been neglected by both parties. Grassroots groups have long struggled to draw investment from funders and campaigns, many of whom believed their efforts to be in vain.

In 2018, their years of work paid off when Democrat Stacey Abrams ran for governor, rewriting Democrats’ playbook in a narrow loss powered largely by nonwhite voters. Organizing modeled on Abrams’s run helped Joe Biden flip the state by a less than 12,000 vote margin in 2020, a critical win in his path to the presidency. And it assisted long-shot Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in surprise victories in their US Senate races, handing the party narrow control of Congress.

With Abrams’s second campaign for governor against incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, as well as Warnock’s reelection — and Democrats’ prospects of maintaining control of the Senate — in the balance, Democrats and their grassroots allies are hoping to once again organize their way to victory.

Inspired by the critical role that grassroots groups have played in turning Georgia purple, national Democrats launched what party officials say is their largest ever statewide coordinated campaign for a midterm election last month.
Read more here: https://www.vox.com/2022/6/10/23161142/ ... ack-voters
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Palin, Begich, Gross and Peltola are early frontrunners in Alaska's special U.S. House primary
Source: Anchorage Daily News
Early results in Alaska’s 48-candidate special primary election for U.S. House Saturday showed Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III taking the lead, followed by independent Al Gross. Democratic former state Rep. Mary Peltola, in her first statewide campaign, was in fourth.

Palin, in her first campaign since resigning as Alaska governor in 2009, was the clear leader with 30%. Begich, a businessman and investor who launched his campaign before the March death of longtime Alaska U.S. Rep. Don Young — which prompted Saturday’s special election — was in second with 19%.

Gross, an orthopedic surgeon who ran unsuccessfully as an independent for U.S. Senate in 2020, with the Democratic Party’s nomination, was in third with 12%.

Peltola, a former state representative from the Southwest Alaska rural hub of Bethel who’s on leave from her job in fisheries management, was in fourth with 7%. The top four candidates from the special primary will advance to an August special general election, which will be Alaska’s first using ranked choice voting.

Santa Claus is apparently in fifth place.

Read more: https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/06/11 ... e-primary/
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weatheriscool wrote: Sun Jun 12, 2022 6:23 pm Palin, Begich, Gross and Peltola are early frontrunners in Alaska's special U.S. House primary
Source: Anchorage Daily News
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Santa Claus is apparently in fifth place.

Read more: https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/06/11 ... e-primary/

First reaction was :lol:

Then, I checked out your link, so second reaction was "OMG", Weatheriscool is right! :lol: :lol:

I guess Alaskans have a good sense of humor about such things. Either that or... ;)
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