McCarthy, the House GOP, addresses the issues of the 2022 election
On the one-year anniversary of President Joe Biden’s presidency, House GOP lawmakers explained their mid-term election issues by criticizing Biden above all, from rising gas prices to the exit. chaotic of Afghanistan. (January 20)
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Polls have closed in the first handful of states in the June 7 primary battles, which cover a diverse group of states.
Voters are running at the polls in California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota.
Most contests for Congress and the governor will not be closed, but many will shape the landscape of 2022. In particular, many will be watching the race for mayor of Los Angeles, where a second round is likely if no candidate succeeds. at least 50%.
Unlike previous primaries in Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, the shadow of former President Donald Trump does not look particularly large.
One of the 10 House Republicans who voted to oust him last year, David Valadao of California, does not even have a challenge from a Trump-backed opponent.
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Crime, a growing problem nationwide, cost San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin his job, as residents voted overwhelmingly to remember him.
Boudin won the 2019 election promising a reform of criminal justice. Critics said its policies, including efforts to end mass incarceration and the prosecution of police misconduct, have contributed to increased criminal behavior.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed will now appoint a new DA, with special elections to come.
– David Jackson
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom led all rivals in a primary and is running in the general election against little-known Republican Brian Dahle.
Dahle, a state senator, was scheduled to finish second in all-party California primaries, earning him a second round with headline Newsom.
With a third of the vote counted, Newsom had about 60% of the vote in the Democratic-leaning state.
– David Jackson
California polls close with big races in Los Angeles and San Francisco
The last closing poll of the day of the primaries has taken place in California, which has a lot of races for the House and big contests in the big cities.
In San Francisco, voters are deciding whether to fire District Attorney Chesa Boudin over rising crime rates, a major issue at the national level as well.
Los Angeles has a mayoral career that could be reduced to a second round in November between the top two.
The favorites are U.S. Democrat Karen Bass, a California Democrat, and billionaire Rick Caruso, who wants to spend more money on police.
– David Jackson
South Dakota’s only congressman, Dusty Johnson, defeated state Rep. Taffy Howard, who falsely believes there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
Johnson voted to certify the results of the 2020 election and to create the independent commission of inquiry on January 6.
With 56% of the district reporting, Johnson led Howard between 60.9% and 39.1%.
– Dylan Wells
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Former meteorologist Mark Ronchetti easily won the Republican primary for governor in New Mexico. He will face incumbent Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in November.
Jessica Taylor, of Cook’s nonpartisan political report, said they would change the ranking of the election from “likely D” to “lean D” due to Ronchetti’s victory, noting that “Ronchetti is the only candidate that could make it competitive. “
Ronchetti was the GOP Senate candidate in 2020, but lost the race to Sen. Ben Ray Lujan.
– Dylan Wells
U.S. Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Republican in the House, won his primary against two rivals who joined the race after Thune angered former President Donald Trump.
Trump speculated that the senator’s career was “over” after making public statements dismissing the former president’s lies about widespread election fraud in the 2020 election.
– Associated press
Deputy Jeff Van Drew, who switched parties to become a Republican in 2019, won the GOP primaries in NJ-02. Van Drew was expected to win, but faced criticism from two rivals because he was one of 13 House Republicans to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, RNJ, who earned Donald Trump’s wrath by supporting the infrastructure bill, survived a challenge from a Trump supporter in his primaries.
Smith’s opponent, radio talk show host Mike Crispi, had supporters of former Trump advisers Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, but the former president himself stayed out of the race.
– Dylan Wells and David Jackson
Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, chairman of the House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurgency and Mississippi’s oldest congressman, won the primary to represent District 2 against a single rival.
Thompson led opponent Jerry Kerner with 96% of the vote. The congressman, who first took office in 1993, will face Republican Conservative Brian Flowers in November.
Thompson will chair the Jan. 6 committee in the first of a series of public hearings in Congress beginning Thursday.
– Chelsey Cox
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Chuck Grassley has captured the Republican Party’s nomination, ahead of state Sen. Jim Carlin in Tuesday’s primary election as he seeks an eighth term in the United States Senate.
The Associated Press called the race in favor of Grassley.
Grassley, 88, will face the winner of a Democratic primary race that included former U.S. Rep. Abby Finkenauer, retired Navy Admiral Mike Franken, and physician and City Council member Glenn Hurst.
Carlin, a 59-year-old litigation lawyer and Sioux City Army veteran, took part in the race in February 2021, long before Grassley announced that he planned to seek re-election. This is the first major challenge that Grassley has faced since his election to the United States Senate in 1980.
Read the full story here: Chuck Grassley passes Jim Carlin in the U.S. Senate Republican primary; happens to be in the 8th quarter
– Brianne Pfannenstiel, Des Moines Register
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, has been declared the winner of the Republican primary for governor of her state.
Noem, who easily defeated South Dakota State Representative Steve Haugaard in Republican competition, will face Democratic state lawmaker Jamie Smith in the fall general election.
If Noem wins this, speculation will rise about his next possible career: a presidential candidacy in 2024. Noem, who has raised more than $ 15 million for his re-election in South Dakota, has also been mentioned. as a possible Trump candidate. in case of gaining the renaming as president.
Haugaard, his opponent in the Republican primary, accused Noem of using the state of South Dakota as a springboard for a presidential campaign.
– David Jackson
Ballot boxes are already closed in Iowa and New Mexico.
Five Republicans are running in the NM GOP primaries to challenge Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in November, including former meteorologist Mark Ronchetti, who ran in the Senate in 2020 but lost to Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Lujan.
In Iowa, Republicans are vying to determine who will face the state’s last surviving Democrat in Congress: Rep. Cindy Axne. Axne’s former colleague, former MP Abby Finkenauer, is one of the candidates running for the Democratic Senate nomination.
Whoever emerges will face a tough battle to defeat Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley.
– Dylan Wells
The Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday that threats of domestic terrorism could become more volatile during mid-term sessions due to misinformation and politically and emotionally charged events, such as an impending Supreme Court ruling on human rights. abortion.
“Threatening actors have recently mobilized for violence due to factors such as personal grievances, reactions to current events, and adherence to violent extremist ideologies, including racially or ethnically motivated or anti-government violent extremism. anti-authority, “the National Terrorism Advisory System said. said the bulletin.
According to the bulletin, targets could include public gatherings, religious institutions, schools, racial and religious minorities, government facilities and personnel, critical U.S. infrastructure, the media, and perceived ideological opponents.
“As the recent acts of violence in communities across the country have tragically shown, the nation remains in an environment of increased threat and we hope that this environment will become more dynamic in the coming months,” said the secretary of the DHS, Alejandro Mayorkas, in a statement.
DHS “stands firm” in its “commitment to providing timely information and resources to the U.S. public and our partners at all levels of government, in law enforcement, and in the private sector,” he said.
– Candy Woodall
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The last few weeks of the U.S. Democratic Senate’s primary race in Iowa have been marked by a flurry of television and digital ads. Retired Navy Admiral Mike Franken has outscored his next Democratic rival, Abby Finkenauer, more than 5 to 1.
Finkenauer, a former U.S. representative for Cedar Rapids, has spent about $ 300,000 on ads, according to data provided by advertising analytics firm AdImpact on May 31. That was overshadowed by the nearly $ 1.6 million Franken spent.
Finkenauer entered the race last summer as the first perceived, garnered significant endorsements and had more than $ 1 million in fundraising during his first quarter.
But the latest fundraising reports from Franken indicate that this gap may be closing. He surpassed Finkenauer in each of his last two fundraising periods, although he has raised more during the election cycle.
– Brianne Pfannenstiel, Des Moines Register
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