Headline Roundup • August 1st, 2022
Previewing Tuesday's 2022 Primaries in 5 States
2022 Elections,2022 Arizona Senate Election,Elections,Politics,Missouri,Michigan,Arizona,Kansas,Voting Rights And Voter Fraud,Abortion
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Voters will head to the polls in Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington state Tuesday to vote in their 2022 midterm election primaries.
In Arizona, Republicans Kari Lake and Karrin Taylor Robson are vying for the party's gubernatorial nomination. Lake is backed by former President Donald Trump; Taylor Robson has the support of former Vice President Mike Pence. In Michigan, anti-Trump GOP Rep. Peter Meijer is criticizing Democrats for meddling in his primary and trying to boost his Trump-backed opponent. And in Missouri, Trump sewed confusion by endorsing "Eric" for Senate in a Republican primary race that features three Eric's — Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, State Attorney General Eric Schmitt, and author Eric McElroy.
In Kansas, Trump-backed Attorney General Derek Schmidt is expected to win the Republican gubernatorial primary to challenge vulnerable incumbent Democratic Governor Laura Kelly in a red state, and voters will also decide whether to remove abortion protections from the state constitution. And in Washington state, longtime GOP Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, one of the 10 Republicans along with Meijer to vote for Trump's impeachment in 2021, faces a primary challenge from Trump-backed former Green Beret officer Joe Kent.
Various primary election storylines have been covered across the political spectrum. Many outlets focused on Trump's confusing endorsement Tuesday morning.
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Hours before western Michigan voters head to the polls for the primary, first-term Republican Rep. Peter Meijer blamed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for funding a $435,000 ad that has given airtime to his competitor, Donald Trump-endorsed John Gibbs.
Democrats had praised Meijer, who represents Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District, when he was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump over the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021.
“To leading Democrats, we were the Good Republicans,” Meijer wrote on Aug. 1 in a column titled “Why the Democrats...
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The proxy battle between President Trump and establishment Republican figures will come to a head in Tuesday’s Arizona primaries, providing an indication of the direction the GOP might take going forward.
The two wings of the Republican Party have provided contrasting messages in the lead-up to Arizona’s primaries, with Trump and his endorsed candidates zeroing in on his unfounded claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him and establishment-backed Republicans focusing on kitchen table issues and being an alternative to Democratic Party control.
This has played out most...
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Former President Donald Trump injected some last-minute confusion ahead of Missouri's Senate primary on Tuesday by endorsing "ERIC" in a Monday night statement.
Eric who? Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens? State Attorney General Eric Schmitt? Or maybe even little-known Eric McElroy?
“I trust the Great People of Missouri, on this one, to make up their own minds, much as they did when they gave me landslide victories in the 2016 and 2020 Elections, and I am therefore proud to announce that ERIC has my Complete and Total Endorsement!” Trump said in a statement after...
