Democrats landed a strong recruit in beer heir Trudy Busch Valentine, who won her primary Tuesday.

Greitens, they predicted, would be toxic in a general election. Eric Greitens, who resigned in disgrace in 2018. Senate seat in deep-red Missouri faltered Tuesday after Republican voters selected Attorney General Eric Schmitt as their nominee over former Gov. Greitens’ comeback collapsesĭemocratic hopes of picking up a U.S. But it also carries significance to Trump after Joe Biden became the first Democratic presidential candidate in decades to carry what was once a reliably Republican state. Election-day and late-arriving mail ballots that would likely favor Lake are still being counted.Īrizona has emerged as a key swing state. She was trailing the establishment-backed Karrin Taylor Robson, who was endorsed by Trump’s estranged vice president, Mike Pence. The possible exception to Trump’s streak of wins was Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. 6 hearing about Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 election, lost his Republican primary for a state Senate seat to a Trump-backed former lawmaker, David Farnsworth. In the state Legislature, Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who testified at a Jan. In the secretary of state race, Mark Finchem, an Arizona state lawmaker who worked to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in the state, won his primary. Senate candidate Blake Masters, whose campaign was bankrolled by tech investor Peter Thiel, won his Republican primary after echoing Trump’s lies of a stolen election and playing up cultural grievances that animate the right, including critical race theory and allegations of big tech censorship. Most of the candidates on Trump’s Arizona slate had a successful primary night. Jay Inslee in 2020 was the result of voter fraud. Newhouse’s opponents include Loren Culp, a former GOP gubernatorial nominee who falsely claimed that his 13-point loss to Democratic Gov. Herrera Beutler’s challengers include Joe Kent, a former Green Beret who has cultivated links to right-wing extremist groups and employs a campaign aide who was a member of the Proud Boys. On Tuesday it became clear that many voters agree with her. Laura Kelly, a Democrat who supports abortion rights, has warned that the Republican-led Legislature’s efforts to ban abortion would hurt the state. After that, abortion is allowed only to save a patient’s life or to prevent “a substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.” Kansas currently allows abortion until the 22nd week of pregnancy. It also hands a considerable win to Democrats, who are feeling newly energized heading into what was expected to be a tough midterm election season for them. Its failure at the ballot in a state Donald Trump won by nearly 15 points issues a stark warning to Republicans, who have downplayed the political impact of the high court’s ruling. The amendment would have allowed the Legislature to overturn a 2019 state Supreme Court decision declaring access to abortion a “fundamental” right under the state constitution. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. It was the first major test of voter sentiment since the Supreme Court ruling in June to rescind the 1973 Roe v. Kansas may seem like an unlikely place for abortion rights supporters to notch a major victory.īut on Tuesday, voters in the conservative state resoundingly rejected a constitutional amendment that would have allowed the Legislature to ban abortion. Takeaways from election results Tuesday night: Red-state Kansas rejects anti-abortion amendment

Missouri midterm results