Category: 2022 US Senate elections

Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb Files Papers to Run for US Senate

Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb officially entered the race for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, filing his paperwork on April 11. Lamb is the first Republican to announce his candidacy to challenge independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. “We need leaders in this country that aren’t too politically correct to protect us,” Lamb said in his announcement video….


Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb Files Paperwork to Run for US Senate

Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb officially entered the race for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, filing his paperwork on April 11. Lamb is the first Republican to announce his candidacy to challenge independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. “We need leaders in this country that aren’t too politically correct to protect us,” Lamb said in his announcement video….


Nevada Races Too Close to Call After Biggest Counties Quit Counting Votes

LAS VEGAS—Tossup races for the U.S. Senate, three House seats, and the governor’s office are too close to call in Nevada, especially after the state’s two largest counties stopped counting ballots a half-hour after polls closed on Nov. 8. In Clark County, where 70 percent of Nevadans live in and around Las Vegas, and in…


Sen. Rubio Rolls to Third Term, Dashing Demings’s Florida Upset Bid

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) will return to Washington after decisively turning back Democrat challenger Rep. Val Demings’ (D-Fla.) bid for an upset in their U.S. Senate race. According to a projection by Decision Desk HQ, Rubio garnered 56.4 percent, 3.7 million votes, to Demings’s 42.5 percent, 2.8 million, with 86 percent of the votes counted as…


120 Million Midterm Voters Set to Unleash Red Wave or Build Blue Wall

More than 120 million Americans are expected to cast ballots in the 2022 midterm elections before Election Day polls close on Nov. 8. When the smoke clears Nov. 9—and, in some places with close races, in the days after—what is likely to emerge is a reshaped legislative playing field in Washington and in state capitals…


98 Percent of Voters Say Economy Will Be Important in Their Midterm Vote

With inflation eating into consumers’ wallets and purses, it’s no surprise the economy will be first and foremost on Americans’ minds when casting their 2022 midterm ballots. A Gallup poll released Oct. 31 confirms that the most basic of kitchen-table issues—the cost of groceries and gas — will influence how 98 percent of Americans vote…


Rubio, Demings Battle Over Budget Bill With Billions for Disaster Relief

In the two days after Hurricane Ian ripped into Florida on Sept. 28, killing at least 119 people and leaving more than $50 billion in insured losses in its wake, none of the state’s 16 Republican congressional representatives and neither of its two U.S. senators voted for a continuing resolution to fund the federal government…


Biden Postpones Florida Rally That Demings Was Ditching

With a strengthening Hurricane Ian churning north through the Gulf of Mexico, the White House has postponed President Joe Biden’s Tuesday trip to Florida. Biden was scheduled to pitch his proposals to lower health care costs and protect Medicare and Social Security at a Fort Lauderdale gathering before heading to Orlando for a Democratic National…


2022 Primaries: Despite 40-Year High in Unseated House Reps, Incumbents Still Ride 95-Percent Reelection Rate

Fifteen Congressional incumbents lost preliminary contests during the recently-completed 2022 midterm primary cycle, nearly double those denied renominations in 2020 primaries and the highest number of sitting reps ousted by party rivals since the 1980s. The 15 defeated incumbents—nine Republicans, six Democrats—top the 14 sitting House reps unseated in 1992 primaries that presaged 1994’s midterm…


Expert Panel: Economy, Not Abortion or ‘Threats to Democracy,’ Will Determine 2020 Midterm Winners

When the 2022 midterm primary cycle kicked off in March, Democrats were being battered over inflation and economic uncertainty with a projected “Red Wave” poised to sweep Republicans into a Senate majority and to as much as a 30-seat hammer-hold in the House. But GOP campaigns across the country were apparently unprepared for how the…