An increasing number of individuals with military experience are running in the 2022 elections this year, new research has found.
According to research by Veterans Campaign and Military Times, 184 House candidates with some degree of military experience won major party primaries earlier this year and are set to appear on state ballots in the upcoming midterms in November.
Additionally, 12 more candidates with military experience who won U.S. Senate primaries will also appear on ballots, marking a total of 196 candidates.
Of those candidates, 126 are running as Republicans while 66 are running as Democrats, in line with recent trends—GOP veteran candidates have typically made up more than 60 percent of those running for Congress in every election excluding 2014, when they made up 57 percent, according to the study….