In a lighthearted message yesterday night, Donald Trump declared that “ALL WINS” from the candidates he supported on Tuesday in the primary contests.
His remark made reference to his past caustic endorsements of a few Democratic candidates as well as his protege and Florida Republican congressman Matt Gaetz.
Looks like a great evening with GREAT CANDIDATES and ALL WINS! ’26 and 0 tonight, converting many close elections into massive and easy victories,’ Trump said on his Truth Social platform, later adding. 98.4% overall over the last 4 years on endorsements!
Only a small number of candidates for the 2022 midterm elections have received Trump’s support so far, including – ironically – Democrat Dan Goldman, who won the New York primary by a razor-thin margin against a host of more liberal challengers.
It is a huge pleasure for me to strongly endorse him, Trump said last week on Truth Social.
“I do this because he was honest, fair, and very educated, not because he chaired the Impeachment Committee and lost,” the speaker said.
An attorney named Goldman helped in Trump’s first impeachment.
Trump supporter Matt Gaetz, who beat former FedEx CEO Mark Lombardo in a primary on Tuesday night in his Florida Panhandle district, received one more significant endorsement.
Gaetz prevailed despite being the subject of a federal sex trafficking probe. Come November, he is a strong favourite to win a fourth term. Given its rightward trend, Florida is not anticipated to rank among the states with the most intense competition this fall.
Inquiries into whether Gaetz paid a 17-year-old girl for sex are ongoing. He has not been charged and maintains his innocence. On Tuesday, he defeated his nearest competitor by more than 40%.
He was dubbed “a persistent Fighter for the great People of Florida’s 1st Congressional District” by the former president.
Along with John Rutherford, Marco Rubio, Gus Bilirakis, Neal Dunn, Anna Paulina Luna, Kat Cammack, and others, Trump supporters stormed to victory on Tuesday night. Cory Mills, a defence contractor who has questioned the validity of President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, also triumphed.
During the GOP primary season, Trump set out to show that he was the party’s undisputed leader, and he partially succeeded.
His endorsement played a crucial role in many fiercely fought primaries and helped determine the party’s Senate field. When his handpicked candidate defeated Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming’s Republican primary last week, he won his greatest prize.
In a vacant GOP-leaning district on Florida’s Gulf Coast, Trump’s preferred candidate, Air Force veteran and conservative activist Anna Luna, won her primary on Tuesday.
However, Trump suffered some severe defeats, particularly when he attempted to meddle in the governor’s races in Idaho, Nebraska, and particularly Georgia, where he was unsuccessful in ousting Gov. Brian Kemp for his refusal to annul the results of the 2020 election in his state and award it to Trump.
More importantly, Trump empowered candidates who may not be able to win close contests or who could even be dangerous to democracy.
The Senate majority leader for the GOP, Mitch McConnell, expressed concern last week that his party would not gain a majority in the Senate owing to the “candidate quality” of its candidates.
They include Trump-backed candidates who are having difficulty winning in swing states, such as Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, JD Vance in Ohio, and Herschel Walker in Georgia.
Others, such as the GOP candidates for governor of Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, and governor of Arizona, Kari Lake, have refuted the notion that Trump lost the 2020 election, raising concerns about their willingness to recognise the true winners of future elections if they take control of their respective statehouses.
In order to advance in Republican primaries, Trump does not always need to speak out for radical candidates who have adopted his approach.
Tuesday saw an unexpected primary challenge against 73-year-old Florida Rep. Daniel Webster from conservative agitator Laura Loomer, who has been banned from multiple social media platforms for publishing anti-Muslim statements.
Nevertheless, Trump’s influence on the GOP grew immensely throughout the primaries.
A fight that was almost tied until after midnight on Wednesday saw Democratic official Pat Ryan of New York defeat Republican Marc Molinaro, in a stunning shock win for President Joe Biden’s party.
When more than 95% of the ballots had been tabulated and there were fewer than 3,000 votes separating the two candidates, many media sources, including the New York Times and NBC News, called the race for Ryan.
Ryan will now complete the remaining year of former Democrat Rep. Antonio Delgado’s tenure. Delgado resigned from the House of Representatives to become Kathy Hochul’s lieutenant in New York.
After the polls closed, the Ulster County Executive had a sizable advantage, but Dutchess County Executive Molinaro considerably trimmed the margin as Election Day voters, who tend to lean Republican, overtook mail-in and early votes, which were typically overwhelmingly Democratic.
Republicans were expected to win the special election for New York’s 19th Congressional District for weeks, with surveys showing Molinaro in the lead even days before voting day.
The swing district supported Joe Biden in 2020 and Donald Trump in 2016, respectively.
The campaign in the Hudson Valley was being closely followed as a potential harbinger for the midterm elections in November, when Republicans were also predicted to take the majority in the House.
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June, however, sent an extraordinary tremor through midterm voters throughout the country, upending expectations.
Ryan centred his campaign on restricting access to abortion, while Molinaro highlighted the financial strain that many Americans are experiencing due to record inflation and a declining stock market.
99% of the votes had been tallied when Ryan beat Molinaro 51.3% to 48.7%.
Republicans are expecting a normal landslide since President Joe Biden’s popularity rating is low and inflation is rising. Midterm elections are often disastrous for the party in power. Ryan’s victory is the most recent proof that Democrats don’t have to give up hope just yet, even if it may still turn out to be a strong GOP year.
In an election year when a “red tsunami” was predicted to sweep Congress, Democrats throughout the country are feeling a renewed sense of optimism.
electors in deep-red When voters in Kansas showed up in large numbers to defeat a measure that would have removed abortion rights from their state constitution last month, they defied expectations.
Now, observers from both sides of the aisle received their first impression of how that translates into choosing a representative in Congress.
The 19th district, which supported Barack Obama in 2012, Donald Trump in 2016, and then Joe Biden in 2020, is a classic “swing district.”
However, an increasing number of surveys of the general public indicate that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe may have enough of an impact to alter this year’s elections.
7 in 10 US voters, according to a recent Ipsos/USA Today survey, said they would support a Kansas-style ballot initiative.
And 54% stated they would cast their ballots to defend the right to an abortion.
Before the election, Ryan told Reuters that the Roe decision was literally shifting the political landscape.
The Democrat added that this has “fundamentally re-energized” not just Democrats but a large portion of the population in this district and neighbourhood.
Molinaro reiterated to the publication that the majority of Americans’ worries related to their financial situation.
These are families and communities, he continued, “and that’s what’s on their minds: working too hard and receiving too little in return.”
More than two-thirds of respondents to an early August ABC News/Ipsos poll said they thought the US economy was becoming worse, supporting the Republican’s assertion.
Only 37% of those polled indicated they agree with Biden’s handling of the economy.
A new NBC News survey issued on Sunday showed a little improvement in the situation, although his popularity rating for the economy remains low at 40%.
The election results won’t represent a certain success for either party going forward to next year, despite the possibility that they might be an early indication of what is to come.
Ryan, who also won the 18th district’s primary on Tuesday night, will be forced to run in that district in November according to the state’s recently revised Congressional map.
Although Molinaro is preparing to run for the same seat again later this year, his residence will legally be beyond the boundaries of the new 19th district.
In the meanwhile, Rep. Charlie Crist of Florida won the Democratic governor primary in his state on Tuesday night and will now take on DeSantis in the general election.
Sunshine State voters unquestionably selected the 66-year-old lawmaker, who is supported by the national Democratic establishment, to compete against the GOP powerhouse.
DeSantis is the only candidate in the GOP primary, and his popularity among Republicans worldwide as well as in the Sunshine State is growing.
DeSantis sees his reelection in November as a possible launching pad for the 2024 presidential race, when he is anticipated to be Donald Trump’s main challenger.
Fried, Florida’s outspoken progressive Agricultural Commissioner, has been behind Crist in polls for some weeks.
He took the lead right away on Tuesday night and kept it when the votes closed at 7 p.m. Eastern Time.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was among the prominent backers of Crist going into the election on Tuesday.
When the pragmatic politician spent one term as Florida’s governor from 2007 to 2011, he was a Republican. He nearly lost re-election to Republican Rick Scott in 2014 after an unsuccessful run for the Senate. For Florida’s 13th Congressional District, which he has served since 2017, he ran as a Democrat.
President Joe Biden’s successful 2020 campaign has served as a smaller-scale test run in the contest for Florida governor, despite the Democrat lost that state to Donald Trump.
He has attempted, like Biden, to present himself as a unified, non-divisive candidate who is centred on kitchen table concerns.
During his victory address on Tuesday night, he reiterated that campaign plan. Speaking to jubilant supporters while surrounded by family, Crist declared: “The people of Florida obviously delivered a message. They want a governor who will work to address pressing issues and uphold our rights. He said, “not a bully who separates us while taking our freedom away,” in an apparent dig at DeSantis.
DeSantis is seen as former President Donald Trump’s main challenger for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, in part because of the way he has played on divisions in Florida’s politics and culture. He showed why on Tuesday.
Nikki Fried attended the governor’s Cabinet meeting at the start of the day.
In his short comments to reporters after the meeting, DeSantis criticised Fried’s candidacy and predicted that she would lose—exactly as it turned out. He then shook Fried’s hand and wished her success.
DeSantis criticised Fried, saying, “I think that you know she had an opportunity to exercise some leadership as the only Democrat elected statewide to maybe get some things done and instead she’s used her time to try and smear me on a daily basis, that’s all she does.”
DeSantis reclaimed the limelight by addressing a gathering in Miami after the closing of the polls in the evening.
We won’t allow awakened ideology to take over our state, added DeSantis. “We will battle the woke in business, we will fight the woke in government agencies, and we will fight the woke in our schools.” We will never give in to the awakened agenda, I promise. The state of Florida is where the awakened go to die.