Kansas voters (CNN) handed abortion rights supporters a massive victory on Tuesday, appearing in polls to defeat a measure that would allow a People’s Republic-led legislator to impose new restrictions.
The Kansas vote was one of the first ballot-box tests of abortion rights since the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade and lift federal abortion protection.
In Michigan, meanwhile, one of the 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted to accuse Trump was removed, and the duel was set for one of the key governor races this fall. And in Missouri, the former governor’s political return was completed.
In Arizona, local election officials continued to count votes to determine if the list of state-wide candidates who had been backed by former President Donald Trump and promoted his lies about electoral fraud won their Republican primary election.
Here are six take-away dishes from Tuesday’s primaries:
Kansas maintains the constitutional right to abortion
Kansas maintains constitutional right to abortion
Kansas voters sent a dramatic message on Tuesday, deciding to uphold abortion rights in their state’s constitution just weeks after the US Supreme Court’s decision to quash the Roe v. Wade case.
Polls have long shown that voters strongly support the protection of abortion rights. This may interest you : Political Podcast: Does the DeSantis Force Spell a Problem For Trump?. But the no-vote victory in Kansas is proof of this, and signals that the Supreme Court decision has angered voters even more and likely changed policy on the issue ahead of the November elections.
“No” leaves the state constitution unchanged. While lawmakers in the state may still try to pass restrictive abortion laws, courts in Kansas have recognized the right to abortion under the state constitution.
The biggest warning to the Republicans, many of whom have been trumpeting the overthrow of Roe and advocating pressure to pass stricter abortion laws, is perhaps the Kansas attendance. With 78% of the vote on Tuesday evening, nearly 700,000 people voted in the primary elections, which already eclipses the turnout in the presidential primaries in 2020.
“This is further evidence of what the polls tell us after the polls: Americans support abortion rights,” said Christina Reynolds, head of the Emily’s List, which selects women who support abortion rights. “They believe we should be able to make our own healthcare decisions and they will vote accordingly, even in the face of misleading campaigns.”
The member of “impeachment 10” is defeated
A member of the ‘impeachment 10’ is defeated
Representative Peter Meijer became the second of 10 Republicans to vote to recall former President Donald Trump in the election on Tuesday, losing to Trump-backed conservative challenger John Gibbs, CNN predicts. Read also : The Jan. 6 hearings brought politics into the TikTok age.
Democrats played a role in supporting Gibbs – a calculated decision that became a flashpoint to anger some Democrats and Republicans opposing Trump.
Meijer, a freshman, voted to accuse Trump just days after taking office after the January 6, 2021 uprising. Gibbs, meanwhile, backed Trump’s lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 elections.
Meijer’s defeat means that the Grand Rapids-based third ward seat will be one of the House of Representatives’ most competitive competitions in the November mid-term elections.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, seeing the site as a possible pick-up opportunity, spent over $ 300,000 on TV commercials in an effort to empower Gibbs with top voters in favor of Trump by portraying him as a conservative allied with Trump.
In Washington, two more Republicans who voted to prosecute Trump, representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse, tried to survive their own primaries. An open, nonpartisan system of primaries in a state where the top two, regardless of the party’s promotion to the November general election, made them more difficult targets for Trump and his supporters.
Unknowns in Arizona
Arizona’s race for a Republican nomination for governor may depend on whether former President Donald Trump’s supporters become strong on election day in a state that runs its contests mostly by mail. To see also : The Texas GOP has adopted a resolution rejecting the 2020 election results.
Karrin Taylor Robson, a former member of the Arizona Council of Regents, backed by former Vice President Mike Pence and outgoing Governor Doug Ducey, led the former Trump-backed Trump-backed television journalist in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
But the early results were largely by mail. The votes cast on election day were expected to favor Lake – the result of Trump’s years of efforts to undermine faith in the postal vote.
The governor primaries in Arizona were the top contest in the set of primaries that tested Trump’s impact on the republic.
If Trump’s Arizona-based candidate list advances to the general election, they will be able to take over the election machinery of one of the most important presidential states if they win in November.
The Blake Masters, a venture capitalist backed by Trump and backed by millions in spending from republic mega-donator Peter Thiel, led the Republican state primary to fight Democratic Senator Mark Kelly.
State Representative Mark Finchem, a Trump-backed Stop the Steal activist who said the state legislature should be able to overthrow voters in the presidential election, led the GOP primary election as secretary of state. Democrats saw a fierce race between Maricopa County Registrar Adrian Fontes and State Representative Reginald Bolding.
And the prosecutor general’s race was led by Trump’s preferred election-denying candidate Abraham Hamadeh.
But there was one person who stood up to Trump and his election lies that was removed on Tuesday, according to a CNN projection: Rusty Bowers, Arizona House speaker. Bowers testified in June about the pressure he faced to overturn the 2020 election results from former President Donald Trump and others. Instead, he was branded by his party, dubbed “unfit for service” – and has now lost his main candidacy to the state senate.
Greitens’ attempt to return fails
Greitens’ attempted comeback falls flat
Republicans in Missouri breathed a sigh of relief after US Attorney General Eric Schmitt won the wide-open Senate primary election, according to a CNN projection.
Perhaps more important than who won in deep red is whoever lost: disgraced ex-governor Eric Greitens who tried to make a political comeback. Greitens resigned in 2018 amid a sex scandal and accusations of inappropriate campaigning, then faced allegations of abuse by his ex-wife, which he has denied
Schmitt, the attorney general, emerged from a crowded field that included two members of Congress, representatives Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long.
Former President Donald Trump has stayed out of the race by making a tongue-in-cheek statement in support of “Eric” on the eve of the primary – leaving that to voters’ interpretation of whether it meant Schmitt or Greitens.
Dixon’s victory in the Michigan governor’s race marks a referendum on Covid’s policy
Dixon victory in Michigan governor’s race sets up referendum on Covid policies
Tudor Dixon, a conservative commentator backed by Trump in the final days of the race and backed by large factions in the Republican Michigan establishment, won the GOP state primary to take on Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, CNN reported.
The race in Michigan could be one of the most competitive governor races in the country.
Whitmer had become a bastion of abortion rights in a state where Republicans sought to enforce a 1931 law that would impose an almost complete ban on abortion.
Meanwhile, Dixon in her winning speech described the race as a referendum on Whitmer restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dixon, a mother of four, supported by the family of former education secretary Betsy DeVos, is also an advocate for school choice – potentially positioning education as a marquee issue in November’s mid-term elections.
Progressives fail again in Michigan
Progressives suffer another defeat in Michigan
Representative Haley Stevens, who predicted a Democratic victory in the primary election in Michigan’s newly drawn 11th Congressional District over fellow representative Andy Levin, is another blow against progressive advances in what was an overwhelmingly disappointing primary election season.
It is also a loud victory for the American Israeli Public Affairs Commission (AIPAC) and its super PAC, the United Democracy Project, which has spent millions in support of moderate, more staunch pro-Israel candidates in the democratic primaries.
Stevens and Levin support Israel, but Levin – who is a Jew – was more inclined to criticize the way his government treated Palestinians and is a major sponsor of the Two-State Dissolution Act.
Often targeted by AIPAC spending this major season, Progressive Democrats are furious with other Democrats for accepting or soliciting group support, which also contributed to the denial of the Republican election. AIPAC defends this practice, arguing that its political goals need the support of both parties.
J Street, a liberal pro-Israel group that clashed with AIPAC, tried to bolster Levin with a $ 700,000 ad purchase in July, but that sum paled in comparison to the millions accumulated by AIPAC and the more than $ 4 million spent by UDP.
