The latest on the midterm elections.
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Biden Pollster Warns of ‘Paradigm Shift’ After Survey Shows GOP Gains Among Black, Hispanic Voters
A poll released Monday morning shows that the Republican Party is continuing to make inroads among black and Hispanic voters with just one day to go before the 2022 midterms.
Some 17 percent of black voters told a Wall Street Journal poll that they would pick a Republican candidate for Congress over a Democrat, which is larger than the 8 percent of black voters who voted in favor of President Donald Trump, a Republican, in 2020. During the 2018 midterm elections, 8 percent of black voters backed GOP candidates in House races.
For decades, black Americans have voted in favor of Democrats over Republicans by large margins.
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GOP Leader Reveals ‘First’ Priority If Republicans Retake House During Midterms
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that the “first thing” Republicans will propose is more border security if his party retakes the House during the 2022 midterm elections on Tuesday.
Numerous analysts and forecasters have predicted that Republicans will be able to secure a majority in the House, where Democrats currently hold a slim lead. The GOP needs to gain a net five seats, while historically the party of the president tends to lose seats in midterms.
McCarthy, the minority leader, is in line to become speaker again if Republicans take control of the lower chamber. It’s not clear if any Republican House lawmakers will challenge his bid.
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For First Time in Over a Decade, Oregon Has Three Competitive House Races
For the first time in more than a decade, three of Oregon’s six congressional seats are competitive, and Oregon’s congressional delegation could include more than one Republican.
The retirement of 35-year incumbent Peter DeFazio in the 4th Congressional District, the primary defeat of incumbent Kurt Schrader in the 5th, and a new 6th district following the 2020 Census give Oregon voters a chance to elect three new representatives and affect the partisan balance of the U.S. House of Representatives.
All three races are too close to call.
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Obama Issues Warning to Democrats Over GOP Momentum Ahead of 2022 Midterms
Top Democrats including former President Barack Obama warned voters during rallies that the Republican Party is gaining momentum ahead of the midterms.
“Sulking and moping is not an option,” Obama told voters in Pennsylvania on Saturday. “The only way to save democracy is if we, together, fight for it,” he added, echoing Democratic talking points since the Jan. 6, 2021, incident at the Capitol.
The former president and President Joe Biden, his former deputy, shared a stage later in Philadelphia on Saturday. That was the first time the two campaigned together since Biden took office in January of last year.
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Libertarian Candidate Could Influence Outcome of US Senate Race in New Hampshire
As the U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire remains under heavy watch in the final days before the midterms, a third candidate in the race who has received relatively little attention may very well decide the outcome of the high-profile race.
Jeremy Kauffman, CEO of a blockchain-based digital sharing network and a top advocate of New Hampshire’s Free State Project, is running as a Libertarian against Democrat incumbent Maggie Hassan and newcomer Don Bolduc, who has quickly risen to national prominence within the Republican Party.
Kauffman is forecast by some of New Hampshire’s most influential Republicans to garner as much as 6 percent of the electorate vote.
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Lombardo Implores GOP to Get People Out to Vote in Tight Nevada Governor Race
As far as late-campaign rallies go, there wasn’t much flash but plenty of pan, as in dire warnings about what awaits should Joe Lombardo fail to unseat Nevada’s incumbent Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak in Nov. 8’s midterm elections.
The Clark County Sheriff and GOP gubernatorial candidate was speaking to 75 people gathered on Nov. 6 in a meeting room at the Nevada Republican Party’s office in Henderson. He spoke again of the vast differences in the GOP and Democratic Party’s vision for America’s future.
Lombardo’s list of bad things that would happen under a second term of a Sisolak administration included ongoing inflation, a sustained border crisis, uncertainties with election integrity, the quashing of parental rights, and fear of growing crime.
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Trump, Biden Warn Voters of Consequences in Upcoming Vote in Final Rallies
Former President Donald Trump warned voters that more Democrat policies would soon turn America into Cuba or Venezuela, while President Joe Biden argued that Republicans could weaken U.S. democracy at two dueling rallies on the final Sunday before the Nov. 8 midterms.
Biden was in Yonkers, New York, campaigning for incumbent Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul who is locked in a close race with Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), who is seeking to become the first Republican governor of the Empire State since 2006.
Meanwhile, Trump was in Miami—the third of his four campaign rallies ahead of the election—stumping for incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who is widely expected to defeat Democrat challenger Val Demings for Florida’s Senate seat.
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Pennsylvania Voters Choose Party Candidates With Different Primary Concerns in Midterm Elections
Days before the polls open on Nov. 8, Trump, Biden, and Obama made a final push in Pennsylvania, a battleground state that will likely decide who controls the U.S. Senate. They urged voters to support the candidates from their respective parties but for very different reasons. Voters from each side have also expressed quite different concerns as they choose candidates.
President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama teamed up Saturday to stump for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro and Senate candidate John Fetterman in Philadelphia.
At Temple University’s Liacouras Center, Biden reiterated his previous claim that democracy was at stake in the upcoming elections, which was “one of the most important elections in our lifetime.”
Jack Phillips, Frank Fang, Alice Giordano, Frank Liang, Lily Sun, Scottie Barnes, and John Haughey contributed to this report.
