Mesa County official Tina Peters, who gained national fame after being charged with felony criminal mischief for her role in disrupting her county electoral system, lost her candidacy for the top spot in Colorado to Pam Anderson, a former a Denver suburban official who criticized Trump. electoral lies. Anderson will face Democratic Secretary of State Jenna Griswold in November. State lawmaker Ron Hanks, who attended the Jan. 6 rally and claimed that President Joe Biden was not properly elected, lost his Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate backed by businessman Joe O’Diagia. by Republicans of the Washington and Colorado establishment. The twin losses add to a very mixed record for the Trump movement. So far, four supporters of his electoral lies have won the Republican primary for secretary of state, including in New Mexico and Nevada. But he also suffered embarrassing losses, such as in Georgia, where recruits he recruited lost badly to Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who refused to declare him winner in 2020 because Biden won the state. Tuesday’s Colorado ruling came as voters in six other states went to the polls in the first primaries after the Supreme Court revoked women’s constitutional right to have abortions. Abortion was a major issue in the race for the Colorado Senate because O’Dea is a rare Republican supporter of most abortion rights. He supports the ban on delayed abortions, but said the earlier decision should be between “a woman and her God”. He will face Democratic Sen. Michael Bennett in November. Hanks opposes abortion in all circumstances, including rape, incest or to save the mother’s life. Considering him the easiest candidate to win in November, Democrats spent more than $ 4 million to bolster his candidacy. A similar strategy worked in Illinois, where state senator and farmer Darren Bailey won the support of Trump and more than $ 16 million in Democrat support, which pushed conservatives to elect him over Richard Durrh. Aurora, the second largest city in the state. Irwin was considered a much stronger opponent of Governor JB Pritzker and was heavily backed by Republican backers. Speaking at his victory party, Bailey said he was defending “normal people” and promised to beat Pritzker and win in November. “Now the elite and the press are saying that Pritzker is a fan. “They say our fate is set, that a farmer cannot beat a billionaire,” Bailey said. “Friends, the funny thing is that these same people said we could not win the qualifiers.” In addition to Colorado and Illinois, elections were held in Oklahoma, Utah, New York, Nebraska, Mississippi and South Carolina. Tuesday marks the final round of multi-state qualifying nights until August, when races for the U.S. governor and Senate will take place in Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida, Missouri and more. And while Tuesday’s primary is the first to take place in a post-Roe landscape, it offers further information on the repercussions of Trump election lies among GOP voters. In Oklahoma, one of the nation’s most conservative senators, James Lankford, won major controversy over evangelical pastor Jackson Lachmayer amid conservative anger that Lankford did not support the election allegations. In Utah, two Republican critics of Trump are targeting Sen. Mike Lee, accusing the senator of being too busy gaining the former president’s favor and helping him try to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. In Mississippi, MP Michael Guest, a Republican who pushed Trump to vote for an independent committee Jan. 6, faces a challenge from Michael Cassidy, a former Navy pilot. Also in Colorado, fancy MP Lauren Bobert easily defeated her main rival, the moderate Senator Don Coram. Other opportunities for the state GOP are coming to the newly formed congressional headquarters north of Denver, where four Republican candidates are vying to face state lawmaker Yadira Caraveo, the only Democrat running in the primary. Heidi Ganahl, the only nationwide Republican elected to the University of Colorado Board of Regents, won the GOP nomination to face Democratic Gov. Jared Polis. In Colorado Springs, Republican lawmaker Doug Lamborn, who faces regular challenges in the league, this time attacks state lawmaker Dave Williams, who failed to get the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” a code for obscenities against President Joe. . his official name on the ballot. In addition to the gubernatorial primaries, Illinois also includes two rare rallies for the incumbent Congress as a result of the redesign of the House of Representatives during last year’s redistribution. Democrats Sean Casten and Marie Newman will run for a seat in the Chicago area. And Republican Rep. Rodney Davis, one of the last moderates in the Republican caucus, faces Trump-backed lawmaker Mary Miller, who at a rally with the former president this weekend described the Supreme Court ruling as “Supreme Court”. white life “. A spokesman said he wanted to say “right to life”. In the smaller cities of Illinois, conservative voters longed for change. Toni Block, 80, of McHenry, about 45 miles northwest of Chicago, voted for Bailey in the primary. “It has all the good things we need to get back to,” Block said. “He is not only a supporter of Trump, he also has our values.” In New York, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, who became chief executive of the state last fall when Andrew Cuomo resigned amid a sexual harassment scandal, has faced major challenges from the left and center. New York City’s elected attorney general, Jumaane Williams, said Hochul was not active enough in progressive issues, while Long Island spokesman Tom Suozzi accused her of being too liberal in crime. On the Republican side, MP Lee Zeldin is the pioneer in a busy prime ministerial arena that includes Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York mayor and Trump confidant Rudolf Giuliani. Trump has not supported the race.
Associated Press writer Sara Burnett in Chicago and Claire Savage in McHenry, Illinois contributed to this report.
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