Category: 2022 election

Former Democrat Campaign Chairs Warn About Pelosi Losing House Majority in 2022

Several former Democratic campaign chairs have expressed concern over the possibility of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) losing the House majority in 2022. Former Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), who led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in 2012 and 2014, told The New York Times that “the two biggest headaches of any cycle are redistricting and…


DeSantis Schedules Special US House Election for January

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday scheduled a special election to fill the U.S. House seat vacated by the late Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) for Jan. 11, 2022. “I am going to be doing an executive order to set the special election for Congressional District 20, Alcee Hastings’ seat,” DeSantis said. “We’re going to do…


Rep. Charlie Crist to Challenge DeSantis for Florida Governor

Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) announced Tuesday he will try to beat incumbent Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022. Crist, 64, was elected governor of Florida in 2006 as a Republican. He later became a Democrat and lost in the 2014 gubernatorial election to Rick Scott. In a launch video, Crist highlighted what he sees as his…


Energy Executive Jim Lamon First Arizona Republican to Announce 2022 Senate Run

Jim Lamon, head of a solar power company and a supporter of former President Donald Trump, is the first Republican to enter the primary race in Arizona to compete for a Senate seat, hoping to oust incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a Democrat and former NASA astronaut. Lamon enters the ring as the founder of Depcom…


Former Republican Joins Arkansas Race for Attorney General as Democrat

A former Republican announced on Monday that he is joining the 2022 race for Arkansas’s Attorney General as a Democrat. Jason Davis, 34, an attorney at a law firm he opened in Little Rock,Pulaski County—Davis Law Firm, which deals with small business law, family law, bankruptcy, estate planning, and appeals—said he was running to put…


Republicans Call Cheney’s Continued Criticism of Trump a Distraction, Some Question Her Leadership

More Republicans have raised concern that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is distracting the party from the GOP policy agenda and hurting its chance to take back the House majority in 2022. “This idea that you just disregard President [Donald] Trump is not where we are,” Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) said on Friday during an interview…


Florida Joins Election Integrity Movement

On April 26, in a vote of 23-17, the Republican-controlled State Senate approved SB 90 (pdf), which overhauls Florida election law ahead of the 2022 primary and 2024 presidential election cycles. State Sen. Jeff Brandes was the only Republican to vote against the measure. On April 19, a Florida House panel approved changes to an…


Trump Interior Secretary Runs for New Montana US House Seat

BILLINGS, Mont.—Former congressman and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday that he’s running for Montana’s newly awarded U.S. House seat. Zinke told The Associated Press that he was running, a day after filing paperwork to organize a campaign committee. Zinke, who said he maintains a friendship with former President Donald Trump, told AP that political…


Democratic Rep. Cheri Bustos Announces Retirement From Congress

Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.), the former House Democratic campaign chief, said Friday that she will not seek reelection in 2022. “Today, following a decade of service in Washington, I am announcing that I will not seek reelection in Congress after completing my fifth term,” she wrote on Twitter. Previously, Bustos had stepped down from leading…


Pelosi Is ‘Very Confident’ Democrats ‘Will Hold Majority’ After 2022 Midterms

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that she believes Democrats will hold the majority in the House after the 2022 midterm elections, saying that her confidence stems from recent census results. According to the Census Bureau, Texas gained two seats in the House, while Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon gained one seat. Meanwhile, California, Illinois,…