Missouri primary 2022

Kansas voters handed abortion-rights advocates a massive victory Tuesday, surging to the polls to defeat a measure that would have allowed the GOP-led ...

Bowers testified in June about the pressure he faced to overturn the state's 2020 election results from former President Donald Trump and others. The state's open, non-partisan primary system in which the top two finishers regardless of party advance to November's general election made them more difficult targets for Trump and his supporters. While lawmakers in the state can still try to pass restrictive abortion laws, courts in Kansas have recognized a right to abortion under the state constitution. "They believe we should be able to make our own health care decisions, and they will vote accordingly, even in the face of misleading campaigns." And in Missouri, the political comeback of a former governor was shut down. Gibbs, meanwhile, backed Trump's lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 election. In return, he was censured by his party, called "unfit to serve" -- and now has lost his primary for a state Senate seat. Democrats saw a tight race between Maricopa County recorder Adrian Fontes and state Rep. Reginald Bolding. But the early results were largely mail-in ballots. Wade and end the federal protection of abortion access. , the conservative commentator endorsed by Trump in the final days of the race and backed by large factions of the Michigan Republican establishment, won the state's GOP primary to take on Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, CNN projected. Polls have long shown that voters overwhelmingly support protecting abortions rights.

Missouri Republicans picked Attorney General Eric Schmitt to advance in the state's unpredictable U.S. Senate race, a move that seems likely to keep the ...

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Eric Schmitt won the Republican nomination for Senate in Missouri, ending a comeback bid by disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens. He'll face Democrat Trudy ...

But in the final weeks, the race essentially was a three-way battle featuring Schmitt, Hartzler and Greitens. But Trump ultimately issued a cop-out endorsement of “Eric” — meaning Schmitt or Greitens — and said he trusted Missouri voters to “make up their own minds.” He will face the winner of Tuesday’s Democratic primary, Trudy Busch Valentine, a nurse and heir to the Anheuser-Busch beer fortune. A Greitens victory likely would have made for a more competitive general election to succeed Sen. Roy Blunt, a Republican who is not seeking a third term this fall. So was the probe into his campaign finances. Schmitt, the state’s attorney general, was leading Rep. Vicky Hartzler, with Greitens further behind in third place, according to early results.

The results mark a major defeat for Greitens, who fully embraced former President Donald Trump as he looked to claw his way back to the political fore.

Democrats are desperate to keep their razor-thin majority in the Senate, but their control of the chamber is threatened by a challenging political environment, exacerbated by President Joe Biden's unpopularity and recent economic turmoil. But the former president ultimately did not give Greitens a full-throated endorsement. Greitens was also charged with illegally using a charity donor list to help fund his 2016 gubernatorial campaign. He was charged with felony invasion of privacy related to the alleged blackmailing. Greitens had announced his Senate bid nearly three years after resigning from the governor's office amid accusations that he blackmailed a hairdresser with whom he was having an affair. - Eric Greitens, the scandal-tarred former Missouri governor who launched a comeback bid against the wishes of many Republicans, will lose the state's GOP Senate primary, NBC News projects.

A competitive Republican primary highlights the open Senate contest in Missouri. One of the GOP candidates is causing some to worry that if he wins, ...

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Missouri Senate Election Results for the 2022 primary election. See Live Missouri Senate Election Results and Maps by state, county and district from NBC ...

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