Posted on 07/07/2022 7:42:13 PM PDT by cotton1706
State legislative incumbents are losing to primary challengers at an increased rate this year compared to 2020.
Across the 26 states that have held primaries so far, 132 incumbents—27 Democrats and 105 Republicans—have lost. This represents a 65% increase from 2020 among these states. This increase has been driven by Republican losses, which are up 98% from 53 in 2020. For Democrats, the number defeated this year remains the same.
In total, 5.0% of incumbents running for re-election in 2022 have lost, up from defeat rates ranging from 2.4% to 3.4% since 2014.
At least one state legislative incumbent has lost a primary in 22 of the 26 states that have held primaries.
The percentage of defeated incumbents is highest in Idaho, where 18 incumbents—all Republicans—lost to challengers. That represents 24% of all incumbents who filed for re-election.
In West Virginia, with the second-highest percentage of defeated incumbents, 11 incumbents (11%)—two Democrats and nine Republicans—lost in primaries.
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Legislative bodies both large and small will be very different next January.
We need more of this. More turnover means less influence from the establishment and hopefully less corruption.
Those numbers are rookie numbers. We gotta pump those numbers up! It is RINO season!
First, probably RINO's are getting the boot.
Second, the article shows that over the past ten years, twice as many R incumbents have been ousted as D incumbents. This gives R's new blood and fresh faces; that's why the R's have a deep bench, whereas the D's have few attractive candidates: either far left crackpots or old crones and geezers in their 70's and up.
Third, turn-over is per se good; it's term limits imposed by the voters.
Drain the swamp.
It’s a Trump slogan but it’s the people’s job.
I think you have got it right. This is a sign of renewal in the GOP, with the activation of the grass roots voter paying attention at the local and state level. Very good news indeed. MAGA
New state lawmakers first need to understand that much of the so-called "federal" funding that they might find themselves regularly begging Congress for, like their predecessors did, such funding needed to compensate for insufficient state revenues, is arguably state revenues that the unconstitutionally big federal government keeps stealing from the states imo.
More specifically, the post-17th Amendment ratification feds regularly steal state revenues in the form of unconstitutional taxes imo, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
All the states need to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes by effectively “seceding” from the unconstitutionally big federal government. This effective mass "secession" will be accomplished by repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments.
Once unconstitutional federal taxes are permanently stopped, each state will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues (imo) that can be use to increase teacher salaries, also salaries of police and fire departments. Let's also include state infrastructure maintenance in that list. Undoubtedly many other social spending programs as well.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, had indicated that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had left the care of the people to the states, not the big, bad federal government.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Also, Justice Louis Brandeis had seemingly reflected on Bingham's words when he volunteered his "laboratories of democracy" metaphor to emphasized the power of the states to serve the people, ultimately depending on the kind of state social spending programs that the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Also, Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters are again reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Again, insights welcome.
75.0% of the federal RINOs where Trump endorsed an opponent,
have lost.
I don’t recall anything like that happening before. In
elections past, an incumbent could pretty much count on
a position for life.
This is a move in the Right direction, hopefully.
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