Trump-backed candidates triumph as Kansas votes to preserve abortion rights

The results show that the former president, and his false claims that the 2020 election was marred by fraud, continues to haunt Republican voters, while angering the Supreme Court’s decision at the end of June. November midterm elections.

In Michigan, conservative commentator Theodore Dixon, who has echoed Trump’s election claims, won the Republican nomination for governor. He will face Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer in one of the fall’s most iconic elections, which will also revolve around abortion rights in the state.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, another Trump-backed candidate, has won the Republican nomination for governor. He will face Democratic Governor Laura Kelly in November in what is expected to be a highly competitive race.

With 85% of the estimated vote counted, 61.1% of Kansas voters voted in favor of abortion protections in the state constitution, while 38.9% voted to abolish it, a resounding victory for abortion rights advocates in a deeply conservative nation.

Unlike the Republican primaries, the Kansas Abortion Initiative reflected the choices of voters from both major political parties, as well as independent voters.

In Missouri, Attorney General Eric Schmidt won the Republican nomination for the US Senate, making his party more likely to take the seat after scandal-ridden former Governor Eric Grettens was late.

Trump. Impact test

Tuesday’s elections, which include major contests in Arizona and Washington, will be the latest test of Trump’s impact on Republican voters. Several Trump-backed candidates have embraced the former president’s lies about voter fraud, leading some Republicans to worry that they might be too extreme to beat the Democrats on November 8.

Two Republican delegates who voted to impeach Trump after his supporters attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Peter Major of Michigan and Jimmy Herrera Butler of Washington, also faced major rivals backed by Trump.

With the economy teetering on the brink of recession and inflation rising, only 38% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s performance, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed Tuesday — still near Biden’s record low of 36%, reached in mayo. One in three voters said the biggest problem facing the United States today is the economy.

Biden’s unpopularity is weighing on Democrats ahead of the November general election, when Republicans are expected to take control of the House and possibly the Senate.

Control of either chamber would give Republicans the power to thwart Biden’s legislative agenda and initiate politically damaging hearings.

As he publicly flirts with the possibility of running for president again in 2024, Trump has endorsed more than 200 candidates. Most are safe candidates — current Republicans in conservative districts — but even in competitive races, he has a proven track record of winning.

Trump-backed candidates won Senate Republican primaries in Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania, although his candidates lost to the Georgia county and the South Carolina House of Representatives primaries.

“Trump is still very popular with Republican primary voters. I don’t think you can underestimate how he reshaped the party in his image,” said Alex Conant, the Republican strategist. “Republicans who oppose Trump tend to be trampled.”

On Tuesday, voters in Arizona were forced to choose between Trump-backed governor candidate Carrie Lake and Karen Taylor-Robson, who has the backing of Trump’s former Vice President, Mike Pence.

Lake, a former news anchor, echoes Trump’s false claims that his defeat in the 2020 election was the result of fraud and said she would not believe Biden’s victory in 2020. During her recent campaign shutdown, Lake claimed without evidence that early voting fraud actually took place, suggesting that she You may not accept defeat on Tuesday.

Edison Research predicted that Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who built a national profile by loudly denying Trump’s allegations, easily won the Democratic nomination.

Also in the race to replace her as the state’s top election official is a Trump-backed candidate, State Representative Mark Fenchem, who attended Trump’s Jan. 6 party. 2021 in Washington, before the attack on the United States Capitol. “Trump won,” he wrote on Twitter on Thursday, leading the Democratic candidate, Adrien Fontes, to call him a “traitor.”

Arizona Republicans were also choosing a contender to face Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, considered one of the weakest of the current Democrats.

Blake Masters, the former technology leader behind Trump’s false allegations of fraud, has the backing of Trump and the backing of tech billionaire Peter Thiel. Leading polls against Jim Lamon, the former energy company CEO, and Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who accuses Trump of not holding back on Biden’s 2020 victory.