2022 midterm election thread

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The Economist/YouGov weekly tracker, July 30-Aug. 2, 1500 adults including 1325 RV

Adults:

Approve 38 (nc)
Disapprove 54 (nc)

Strongly approve 13 (-1)
Strongly disapprove 40 (nc)

RV:

Approve 40 (nc)
Disapprove 55 (+1)

Strongly approve 14 (-2)
Strongly disapprove 41 (nc)

GCB (RV only): D 44 (nc), R 39 (+1)
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Eric Schmitt and Trudy Busch Valentine win Missouri's Senate primary contests
Source: St Louis Post Dispatch
On the Democratic side, Zachary Stickann, 43, of Jefferson City, cast his vote for Lucas Kunce, about a mile away from where Kunce grew up in a “forgotten” house that has featured in his campaign. His wife, Laura Stickann, 43, voted for Spencer Toder.

“I’m not going to vote for an heiress if that’s one of their main claims to fame,” he said, referring to Valentine.

“She also didn’t do hardly any campaigning,” said Laura Stickann, also 43.

“I think he’s a breath of fresh air,” Stickann said of Toder. “It would be wonderful if he would win the primary; I don’t know if he will. I don’t know that enough people know about him.”
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Blake Masters wins Arizona's Republican Senate primary and faces Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly
Source: The Arizona Republic
Blake Masters, a protégé of billionaire Peter Thiel and former President Donald Trump’s pick for Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat, defeated his challengers and gives the state its first Trump-style Senate candidate on the November ballot.

Unofficial results were in line with recent public polling that showed the Tucson resident took command of a previously tight race after receiving Trump’s backing in June.

In Masters, Arizona Republicans picked a conservative more rhetorically combative than former Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., who lost consecutive races in 2018 and 2020 to give the state its first pair of Democratic senators since 1953.

Jim Lamon, the founder of Depcom Power, an Arizona-based solar company, finished in second place. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich narrowly edged out Michael “Mick” McGuire, the retired adjutant general of the Arizona National Guard. Arizona Corporation Commission member Justin Olson finished last.
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Tudor Dixon wins Republican gubernatorial primary, will face Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Source: Michigan Public Radio
Republican candidate Tudor Dixon will be facing incumbent Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer in November's gubernatorial election. With 19.4% of precincts counted, the Associated Press projected her as the winner of the race at 9:43 p.m. Tuesday.

Dixon bested a field of candidates that included Kevin Rinke, Ralph Rebandt, Ryan Kelley, and Garrett Soldano. Former President Donald Trump endorsed Dixon earlier this week.

The win sets up a tough general election race against Whitmer, who has millions in her campaign fund. Dixon defeated four male candidates in a race between little-known Republicans.

Dixon is the first woman to win the Republican nomination for governor, according to Gongwer.
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Kari Lake wins Arizona's Republican primary for governor, will face Katie Hobbs in November
Source: Arizona Republic

7:10 p.m.: Kari Lake wins primary

Kari Lake has won the Republican primary for Arizona governor, the Associated Press declared Thursday evening.


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Ron Johnson Targets Medicare and Social Security
by Meaghan Ellis
August 3, 2022

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( Alternet) Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) has suggested that he believes federal programs like Medicare and Social Security should be included in annual budget discussions; an initiative that could ultimately threaten to impact the lives of millions of benefit recipients.

On Tuesday, August 2, the Republican lawmaker made his remarks during an appearance on "The Regular Joe Show." During the discussion, show host Joe Giganti asked Johnson about the PACT Act — which was passed to provide aid for veterans who suffered from exposure to toxic burn pits — as well as the debates surrounding discretionary and mandatory spending.

The Wisconsin lawmaker, who is currently campaigning for a third Senate term, admitted that he seeks to shift the full federal budget toward discretionary spending. The proposed change would include Social Security and Medicare, programs he believes need to be re-evaluated and restructured.

"Defense spending has always been discretionary," Johnson said. "VA spending is discretionary. What's mandatory are things like Social Security and Medicare. If you qualify for the entitlement you just get it no matter what the cost. And our problem in this country is that more than 70 percent of our federal budget, of our federal spending, is all mandatory spending. It's on automatic pilot. It never ... you just don't do proper oversight. You don't get in there and fix the programs going bankrupt. It's just on automatic pilot.

"What we ought to be doing is we ought to turn everything into discretionary spending so that it's all evaluated so that we can fix problems or fix programs that are broken that are going to be going bankrupt," he said.
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Dick Cheney Blasts 'Coward' Donald Trump in Campaign Ad for Daughter Liz
by Brandon Gage
August 4, 2022

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(Alternet) Former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared in a new campaign ad for his daughter – Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) – who is facing a tough reelection fight ahead of her state's August 16th Republican primary.

Cheney serves as the co-chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, which has placed her at odds with the GOP.

The 60-second spot, which was released on Thursday, features the elder Cheney tearing into ex-President Donald Trump for his efforts to steal the 2020 election, as well as his pathological dishonesty.

"In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He is a coward. A real man wouldn't lie to his supporters. He lost his election and he lost big. I know it, he knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know it," Cheney said.

Cheney also praised the Congresswoman's willingness to put the country ahead of her party and her political career.
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In Tennessee, Jason Martin has apparently won the Democratic nomination for governor by a razor thin margin over opponent JB Smiley. Incumbent Republican Bill Lee won the nomination for governor on the Republican side and "is expected to cruise to reelection."

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https://www.politico.com/2022-election/ ... tennessee/
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Anti-abortion Extremism is Scaring Voters – It Should
by Mitchell Zimmerman
August 3, 2022

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(Otherwords) Our country may be divided on the issue of abortion. But when it comes down to it, most Americans believe that it’s a pregnant person’s right to decide for themselves whether to continue a pregnancy.

That’s not only a blue-state attitude — it’s just as true in conservative states like Kansas.

By a margin of nearly 20 percentage points in an election with record turnout, Kansas voters just overwhelmingly rejected Republican efforts to cancel the state’s constitutional right to personal bodily autonomy, even after the U.S. Supreme Court deleted that right at the federal level.

Abortion rights loom front and center as a major political issue this fall. But anti-abortion forces are trying to deflect responsibility for the reversal of Roe v. Wade by claiming that Democrats are using “scare tactics” about abortion bans.

Yes, voters are scared — and they should be. Voters are scared about the horrific, real-world human consequences we’ve seen with our own eyes since states started banning abortion.
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2022 Midterm Primaries: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut
by Caroline Linton, Aaron Navarro, and Fin Gomez
August 9, 2022

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(CBS) Four states go to the polls Tuesday night in matchups that include a race to take on a swing-state governor, a member of the progressive "Squad" with several primary challengers and an opportunity to elect a woman for the first time in Vermont's at-large congressional district.

Tuesday's primaries take place a day after the FBI searched former President Donald Trump's primary residence in Florida, at Mar-a-Lago, as part of a probe into documents that may not have been preserved as required by the Presidential Records Act.

Since the search, Trump has launched fundraising efforts off "Biden's FBI RAIDS." Republicans blasted the search, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy vowed to retaliate if the GOP takes back the House in November.

Wisconsin, the site of the Republican National Convention in 2024, is one of the four states holding primaries on Tuesday. The state was one of the battleground states that Trump won in 2016 but swung to President Joe Biden in 2020. Trump has repeatedly called for state legislators to "decertify" Wisconsin's 2020 election results, which is not legally possible.

Trump has backed Tim Michels in the gubernatorial primary and rallied for him on Friday in Waukesha. At that rally, Michels vowed to dissolve the state's elections commission, a move that his main primary challenger, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, also supports. Former Vice President Mike Pence and former Republican Gov. Scott Walker have backed Kleefisch.
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