2022 Primary Election Night Coverage Megathread (9/13 - GRAND FINALE - DE, NH, RI)

[ElectionsGuy]

It's quite surreal to think that Kay Ivey and John Boozman were more vulnerable than Kemp the entire time.

[Sir Mohamed]

With the 177 vote difference Cisneros can and probably will call for a recount. But I don't expect it to change anything and my call for Cuellar stands.

Why do they keep reelecting this moron?

[ElectionsGuy]

With the 177 vote difference Cisneros can and probably will call for a recount. But I don't expect it to change anything and my call for Cuellar stands.

Why do they keep reelecting this moron?

Rio Grande Hispanics aren't abortion-loving open border leftists.

"this moron" will probably save you guys a seat in November...

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

To hell with 'em. The good thing about House primaries is there's always 2024.

[It’s so Joever]

So I guess this is as good a time as any to say that my PA-ticket was Oz/Mastriano/DelRosso (etc. etc.).    

If you don’t mind me asking, I was just curious, why did you vote for them?

Probably sarcasm

Are you joking?

Not sarcasm, not joking -- that was my ballot.  

Really?

Hey, I wasn't any happier about it than you are.  I just figured that it was the easiest way for Josh Shapiro to win.  I like him -- I think he has a lot of integrity.  

DelRosso was just...because.  And I had my reasons for voting Oz.  

But Oz is insane?! If anything I would have expected you to be a huge McCormick supporter based on your views.

[OSR stands with Israel]

So I guess this is as good a time as any to say that my PA-ticket was Oz/Mastriano/DelRosso (etc. etc.).    

If you don’t mind me asking, I was just curious, why did you vote for them?

Probably sarcasm

Are you joking?

Not sarcasm, not joking -- that was my ballot.  

Really?

Hey, I wasn't any happier about it than you are.  I just figured that it was the easiest way for Josh Shapiro to win.  I like him -- I think he has a lot of integrity.  

DelRosso was just...because.  And I had my reasons for voting Oz.  

But Oz is insane?! If anything I would have expected you to be a huge McCormick supporter based on your views.

Ehh I’d say Oz is more of a wildcard than anything as there is an argument to be made that he can be either more moderate than McCormick and more right wing

[smoltchanov]

With the 177 vote difference Cisneros can and probably will call for a recount. But I don't expect it to change anything and my call for Cuellar stands.

Why do they keep reelecting this moron?

May be - they simply share his views, and for them Cuellar is not a "moron", but "one of them"?. And, in addition, Cuellar may lose in November, but Cisneros - will lose. Here are the difference...

[Pericles]

Raffensperger was written off by a lot of people.

So in light of these results, I wonder if Tom Rice's primary prospects are being underrated. His colleagues haven't turned against him like they have against Liz Cheney and a I feel like the electorate in his district is noticeably less Trumpy than one in, say, West Virginia.

Given the emerging weakness of Trump's grip over Republican primaries & the recent discourse in the WY-AL megathread, I'm honestly starting to wonder if a Cheney re-nomination is plausibly possible.

I doubt that, Cheney has 'sided with the Democrats' a lot more with the 1/6 committee, and she did not just leave it at one vote or decision.

[wbrocks67]

Said it in the GA-Sen thread, but Walker only getting 68% of the vote, and worst, a lesser share than Kemp got, is surprising. He should've had the whole thing wrapped up.

[Badger]

Cuellar wins!!!

Lol, this guy is like a roach

Doesn’t die

I will certainly agree he's like a cockroach, but for different reasons

[Badger]

With the 177 vote difference Cisneros can and probably will call for a recount. But I don't expect it to change anything and my call for Cuellar stands.

Why do they keep reelecting this moron?

Rio Grande Hispanics aren't abortion-loving open border leftists.

"this moron" will probably save you guys a seat in November...

What a totally clever and nuanced opinion. It totally ignored ores the fact Cuellar has a significant chance of being indicted year's end, but as long as the.crook gets your right wi g jellies off that's what's important amarite?

[Lief 🗽]

Nice to see Cuellar win and the primary electorate evidence a little sanity. We shouldn’t throw away this seat just because the donor class demands that we run a future Squad member in an R-trending swing district.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

Nice to see Cuellar win and the primary electorate evidence a little sanity. We shouldn’t throw away this seat just because the donor class demands that we run a future Squad member in an R-trending swing district.

What's your reaction to Schrader possibly losing?

[Comrade Funk]

Nice to see Cuellar win and the primary electorate evidence a little sanity. We shouldn’t throw away this seat just because the donor class demands that we run a future Squad member in an R-trending swing district.

Is this what a party hack looks like?

[Greedo punched first]

Is it certain Cuellar wins the nomination?

[Torie]

With the 177 vote difference Cisneros can and probably will call for a recount. But I don't expect it to change anything and my call for Cuellar stands.

Why do they keep reelecting this moron?

Rio Grande Hispanics aren't abortion-loving open border leftists.

"this moron" will probably save you guys a seat in November...

What a totally clever and nuanced opinion. It totally ignored ores the fact Cuellar has a significant chance of being indicted year's end, but as long as the.crook gets your right wi g jellies off that's what's important amarite?

So many crimes, so little time. Is the article below out of date?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/henry-cuellar-texas-representative-not-fbi-investigation-target/

I always disdained the fajita strip districts that ran from the river into San Antonio. And now we can see that not all Hispanics are the same. Cuellar got almost nothing in the big city, and swept the river areas. The district is an incoherent mess. I wish I were on SCOTUS. They need me. 

[Lief 🗽]

Nice to see Cuellar win and the primary electorate evidence a little sanity. We shouldn’t throw away this seat just because the donor class demands that we run a future Squad member in an R-trending swing district.

What's your reaction to Schrader possibly losing?

Positive, we don’t need him to hold that seat so I’m fine replacing him with someone less obnoxious.

[mtvoter]

Cuellar was a massive overperformer while Schrader was just annoying

[jdk]

Cuellar was a massive overperformed while Schrader was just annoying

Also Schrader's primary opponent is much more of a normie Dem, and even though she is definitely to the left of the typical voter in the district, she actually seems to be more in touch with that district and not running a race in rural Texas while campaigning as if she was running for office in New York or San Francisco like Cisneros

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

GA Insurance Commissioner D - RUNOFF BETWEEN Robinson and Baker
GA Labor Commissioner D - RUNOFF BETWEEN Boddie and Horn
GA 10 D SPOT 2 - Fore
AL-4 D - Neighbors
AL Auditor R - RUNOFF BETWEEN Sorrell and Cooke
TX Land Commissioner D - Kleberg
TX-24 D - McDowell

Uncalled:
GA LT GOV R
TX-15 D
OR-5 D
PA-SEN R

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

Do we have any idea how many votes are left outstanding in TX-28 and where they might be?

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

I wonder if Bee Nguyen can be considered a slight favorite over Raffensperger for SoS this fall since there's a good chance a lot of Republican primary voters might skip his part of the ballot because they're disenfranchised by him... kind of in a similar fashion to the 2021 Georgia runoffs.

These voters who feel that way – didn't they just renominate him to do the same job in which he disenfranchised their feelings? It took pretty substantial R dropoff to get the Georgia runoffs result, Warnock's encore performance this time will be a much better indicator of how the statewide races go.

He barely made it over the threshold to avoid a runoff, and almost all of the votes the other candidates got were cast in the intention of voting AGAINST Raff as a protest. It's very likely that a significant number of those voters aren't going to be there for him in Novermber. Also, keep in mind that a lot of the votes that he got were from Democrats who probably have no intention of supporting him in the general election.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

Cuellar was a massive overperformed while Schrader was just annoying

Also Schrader's primary opponent is much more of a normie Dem, and even though she is definitely to the left of the typical voter in the district, she actually seems to be more in touch with that district and not running a race in rural Texas while campaigning as if she was running for office in New York or San Francisco like Cisneros

Not really. McLeod-Skinner is just a bog standard liberal. She’s no more to the left than any other mainstream Democrat, which seems like right at the median for a D+3ish district.

Unless we are gonna say literally every Republican is to the right of their district because they don’t substantially break with their party, we really need to drop this framing.

By this definition everyone to the left of Joe Manchin is a left wing crazy. It’s tiring.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

Cuellar wins!!!

Lol, this guy is like a roach

Doesn’t die

I will certainly agree he's like a cockroach, but for different reasons

It was close enough that Clyburn and Pelosi’s inexplicable decision to not just endorse the incumbent but go down and campaign for him likely tipped it.

Also, IIRC San Antonio was among the hardest hit by Texas’s new voter ID bull in the March primaries, so it’s possible that might have been determinative.

[Greedo punched first]

Where are the remaining votes from TX-28 coming from?