Category: 2022 Midterm Elections

Republicans Eager For Opportunity to Pick Up Nevada Senate Seat, Change Balance of Power

Political power players are eyeing Nevada’s primary election Tuesday, with races on the ballot on June 14 considered among the most important in the 2022 midterm elections. Republicans are vying for a chance to challenge incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) in November as part of a broader plan to recapture the U.S. Senate. Cortez…


Tennessee Congressional Candidate Robby Starbuck Removed From Ballot Again

Robby Starbuck, a Republican congressional candidate running in the Republican primary for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, was removed from the ballot again after a state Supreme Court ruling on Friday. Starbuck, a Cuban-American filmmaker, was restored to the ballot on Monday for the Aug. 4 primary after his request for a temporary injunction was granted by a judge. Davidson County…


John McNabb: What People Want Is a Leader in This Country

“Blue-collar workers’ been damaged,” says John McNabb, the former co-chairman of the 2016 Trump leadership council. That’s because gas and food prices are rising. What he thinks the country needs going into 2022 and 2024 is a leader who can return America to its position of strength. Our interview focuses on his 2016 work in…


GOP Targets 75 Democratic Seats in Bid to Retake House in 2022

House Republicans have widened the playing field for the midterms after releasing an expanded battleground list on June 9 that added the chair of the Democrats’ House campaign arm and three other targets. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is now targeting a total of 75 Democrat-held or newly-created seats ahead of the midterms. The…


South Carolina Primary Clash Is Another Test of Trump’s Endorsement Influence

The June 14 Republican primary in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District pits incumbent Rep. Nancy Mace, a candidate Donald Trump supported in 2020, against former state Rep. Katie Arrington, who has the former president’s endorsement. Republicans are focused on regaining control of the House by flipping seats, but the party’s faction that embraces Trump’s “America First”…


Trump-Endorsed Ryan Zinke Wins GOP Primary in Montana’s 1st District

Ryan Zinke, a former Trump administration official, narrowly won the Republican primary for Montana’s 1st Congressional District on Thursday, according to results posted to the Montana secretary of state’s website. According to the preliminary result numbers, Zinke defeated former state Senator and his closest Republican rival, Al “Doc” Olszewski by just over 1,608 votes out of 84, 543 cast in the…


Safe Election for Republican Incumbents Likely in North Dakota

In conservative North Dakota, Republican incumbents will likely take the one House and one Senate seat up for reelection. The Cook Political Report, an election analysis site, rates both the North Dakota House and Senate races solidly Republican. Moreover, an incumbent holds every national North Dakota election this year. According to statistics from Ballotpedia, Congressional incumbents…


Nevada GOP Scrums Presage November Battles for Three Toss-Up Congressional Seats

Early voting has been underway since May 28 for the June 14 primary in Nevada, where most of the action is unfolding in rock ‘em, sock ’em Republican nomination battles for governor, US Senate, and in three of the state’s four congressional districts. Awaiting those five GOP scrum survivors are incumbent Democrats. Only one is…


Los Angeles District 11 Runoff Between Progressive Erin Darling and Moderate Traci Park

LOS ANGELES—The top two candidates in City Council District 11, municipal attorney Traci Park and civil lawyer Erin Darling, aim to tackle sprawling homelessness as they advance to the general election in November. District 11 is one of LA’s 15 districts that encompass the westside of the city to the Pacific Ocean. Current incumbent Mike…


Michigan Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Arrested in Connection to Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley was arrested Thursday and charged with participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, according to federal prosecutors in a court filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Kelley, a Republican, was taken into custody on four misdemeanor charges that stem from the Jan. 6 breach, prosecutors…