Georgia primary 2022

GOP incumbent Brian Kemp faces David Perdue, a primary challenge stoked by former President Donald Trump in an effort to oust a fellow Republican for not ...

Georgia holds the political spotlight, as primary races take place in southern states this Tuesday. Here are nine contests we're keeping an eye on.

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The midterm primaries began on March 1st, in Texas, and will continue through the fall, allowing voters in each state to narrow the field in races for the House ...

November’s general election will also decide control of the House and Senate, and history is against the Democrats. The party of the sitting President has typically lost seats in Congress after his first two years in office. If candidates who endorse Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen win control of state offices, Trump and his supporters could be poised to challenge the outcome of the 2024 Presidential election. Republicans, if they gain control of the House, will not continue the work of the Select Committee investigating Trump’s role in the storming of Congress by his supporters, on January 6, 2021. Although Biden won’t be on the ballot in November, Americans’ judgment of his first two years in office—when he faced a pandemic, the highest inflation in decades, and deep divisions within his own party—will be reflected in the results. The White House has touted Biden’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but some progressive Democrats have expressed frustration with his failure to enact many of his most sweeping proposals, from addressing climate change to a historic increase in social-welfare spending. The campaigns will culminate in the general election, on November 8th.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) became the national face of state resistance to Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 Georgia election results. Trump ...

He faces a challenge from Rep. Hice, backed by Trump, because of it. On the Republican side, Trump has endorsed ex-football star Herschel Walker (R). This Senate race will be one of the most closely watched in November. 0% 0 0% 0

Voting has so far appeared to be largely drama-free in Georgia, though turnout numbers were not available. Alabama, Arkansas and Texas are also holding ...

Mr. Trump is also supporting Representative Jody Hice in his bid to unseat Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican who also refused Mr. Trump’s effort to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. David Perdue, the Trump-backed former senator, has trailed in public opinion polls and fund-raising in his effort to unseat Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican who angered the former president by refusing to help overturn the results of Mr. Trump’s 2020 loss in the state. Mr. Walker has been accused of domestic abuse and embraced skepticism about the 2020 election, but his celebrity and the Trump’s backing have buoyed him in public polling and fund-raising. He ran for the seat in 2014 and lost to Representative Jody Hice, a radio show host and political activist who is now challenging Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Mr. Evans’s campaign has become the latest test of Mr. Trump’s power to elevate his preferred candidates in contested primaries where they face well-funded and well-organized rivals. “So in just a year in the Senate, did I think I could fix Washington? Of course not.” Democratic campaign officials say Mr. Warnock is polling ahead of Stacey Abrams, the expected Democratic nominee for governor, and well ahead of President Biden, who narrowly won Georgia in 2020. Mr. Clark is hoping to defy polling and hold Mr. Walker to less than 50 percent of the vote. A changing of the guard at the state and federal level, he said, could go a long way when it comes to racial equity, especially in policing. Mr. Johnson has accused Mr. Hunt, an Atlanta native, of parachuting into a district to which he has little connection and has said that Republicans from outside the state who support Mr. Hunt, like Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Josh Hawley of Missouri and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, are trying “to hijack this congressional seat for their own political purposes.” They also respected that Mr. Kemp stuck to his guns when former President Donald J. Trump pressured the governor and other state officials to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Nadine Williams, the county’s interim director of registration and elections, said that much of the Election Day burden was relieved by a surge in early voting.

In Georgia, there are notable primaries for governor, Senate, secretary of state and key congressional districts.

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One of the most wide-open races on the ballot tonight — on both sides of the aisle — is for lieutenant governor. Republican incumbent Geoff Duncan is ...

Polls close at 7 p.m. for the Georgia Primary Election, where voters will decide the candidates on the ballot in the November General Election.

Republican Andrew Clyde who has held office since 2021 is seeking reelection for the District 9 seat. He has held the U.S. House District 3 seat since 2017. Jared Craig, an attorney from Atlanta, GA, is challenging Ferguson in the GOP primary. More than a dozen candidates are vying for District 10 after Republican Jody Hice announced he would not run for reelection. T.J. Hudson, county manager for Treutlen County, and David Belle Isle, the former mayor of Alpharetta, are also running for the GOP nomination. Abrams, a lawyer and former state representative, ran against Kemp in the 2018 gubernatorial election but was defeated by a narrow margin of less than 60,000 votes. Warnock, a preacher at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, has advocated for increasing wages and expanding healthcare. He supports conservative family values and U.S. energy independence. Other Democratic challengers include Tyrone Brooks Jr., son of former Georgia Rep. Tyrone Brooks Sr.; Tony Brown, former candidate for Henry County Sheriff; Jason Hayes, former state House candidate; and Dr. Rashid Malik, a resident of Atlanta. Congressman Raphael Warnock is seeking reelection for the U.S. Senate seat. Raffensperger is a structural engineer and lifelong conservative. Kemp is a staunch proponent of pro-life legislation, stricter voting regulations and banning government mandates.

Welcome to special coverage of the Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas primaries and runoffs in Texas from Post Politics Now. Today, Republican voters in Georgia ...

“But I think I came in knowing who I was going to vote for.” In the Democratic primary, 68 percent of those who voted early are African American and 24 percent are White. This is an increase in the share of African American early voters on the Democratic side. It’s unclear whether those voters were former Republicans who were alienated by the party in 2020 and are now returning or whether these are Democratic voters who want to support the non-Trump-endorsed candidates in the Republican primary. Marcus Flowers, a 46-year-old Army veteran, had managed to raise an impressive $8.1 million by early May, according to the latest campaign finance reports. Greene has attracted several challengers and ignited a Democratic primary race to see who might try to unseat her. He lost his primary race last week to a more measured candidate. “The people of Alabama are concerned about their neighbors I think, and they see kind of other families struggling and I don’t think the people of Alabama believe a lot of the politicians in Washington are concerned about the everyday American. That’s my general sense.” Paxton, a former state lawmaker, has frequently been in the headlines for battling the Biden administration and for his own actions. By the second vote on the legislation, on June 15, Trump and House Republicans had already begun to paint the insurrection as a peaceful protest. Paxton faces a seven-year-old securities fraud indictment, a separate FBI corruption investigation and a bar review over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Others said that while they noticed minor changes to the process, it has typically been easy to vote at their local precinct. Also in Georgia: Trump’s preferred candidate, former football star Herschel Walker, is expected to prevail in the GOP Senate primary.