Posted on 09/01/2022 11:00:03 AM PDT by cotton1706
Sitting members of Congress are being ousted from their seats at record rates, with Republicans constituting the majority of losses this election cycle.
With the 2022 primary season coming to a close, 15 members of Congress have lost their seats so far this year, representing the highest degree of turnover since the Obama administration, when the Tea Party revolution and an upswing in progressive activism led to 13 incumbents losing their primaries.
Though the defeats of New York Democratic Representatives Mondaire Jones and Carolyn Maloney in late August were the races that pushed the number into record-setting territory, the brunt of losses in Congress have been felt among Republican incumbents, several of whom supported the impeachment of former President Donald Trump over his role in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The first election year after a redistricting cycle, according to historic election data, tends to see a higher level of incumbent turnover, often due to changing district dynamics or, like in Maloney's case, district boundaries that pit them against their fellow incumbents.
Trump's influence on the electoral environment, however, played a major factor. Of the more than a dozen incumbents to lose their primaries, nine were Republicans, with four among the few conservatives who voted to impeach the former president.
Others, like Illinois Representative Rodney Davis and West Virginia Representative David McKinley, lost to candidates backed by Trump as a result of other factors, including newly drawn district boundaries and the perception that they were too moderate to stand on the modern Republican platform.
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The shift has been even more cataclysmic down the ballot. According to an analysis by Ballotpedia, 202 incumbents have lost their primaries this election cycle, eclipsing the previous 20-year high set in 2018 by nearly 60 members.
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You’ve got TDS bad..
You all ready for Trump to visit your state tomorrow?
You were wondering yesterday where he was..
Now, now. Not all of them are oligarchs. Some of them are merely tools of oligarchs.
Go to your other "sites"....and play with them.
Being forced to support it is another. But I understand that while you rant about "slavery" you really do not believe it.
You are opposed to you being treated as property but it is fine if other people are chopped up and dismembered.
No, abortion and gay marriage have nothing to do with whether or not we let billionaires redistribute our money and make us slaves! If you disagree, then I will fail to convince you. We will agree to disagree.
When did I ever say I was wondering where he was? You are as bad as the liberal trolls I encounter on other sites! Get lost!
“Also, if someone sees something as a clump of cells, then you will not convince them otherwise!”
The amount of people who were previously pro-choice and are now pro-life destroys that argument completely.
They are just babies.
That you are in favor of killing them, in fact are in favor of forcing people to do so, says a lot about you.
And it is not very nice.
You might want to quietly consider the state of your soul before you push an idea like that.
People or cells? There are scientific arguments to it! The government telling a woman what to do with their body is BIG GOVERNMENT and I am against BIG GOVERNMENT!
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I am in fact one of those people who previously viewed a fetus as a “clump of cells” and now does not, so I’m living proof that you are wrong.
Anybody dare do an over/under on how many of the 535 could be considered foreign and/or domestic enemies?
Noone is forcing anyone to commit abortion...its a CHOICE. Isnt that what we are about...freedom of choice? If you can convince the large number of people that are pro choice to adapt to your worldview then fine...but they will not and it will cost us in ‘22, ‘24 and beyond!
Great! One person out of millions! I can tell you that for your example, 3-4 people went the other way!
You’re an idiot if you believe there are large swaths of women who would vote R but change to Ds because abortion control was returned to the states, where the power to determine legallity of abortion
BS...go away. You have no cred here...IMO. And your like drives people away from FR.
Show or link me a poll that backs your argument.
“No, abortion and gay marriage have nothing to do with whether or not we let billionaires redistribute our money and make us slaves!”
I’m afraid that no matter how hard you fight, the world inevitably turns towards corruption and tyranny, before there is a backlash and the cycle begins again. The only check against it is building a society with a strong moral foundation, and that is not a permanent check, but at least it can make something of a difference.
But you go ahead and try to get some support for a party based on selfish immorality, but just slightly less selfish and immoral than the Democrats. And see how many other people are interested in your half measure when they can get complete and total immorality and selfishness from the other side. Let us all know how that works out.
I’m exactly the type of person that needs to be on here reminding people that they are taking this election for granted. It’s unfortunate that all you people want to do is debate abortion with me when we have way more important issues that we agree on that can help us win this damn election!
So how many abortions have you had. You happy about them??
It will result in a better life for both you and me. Driving people away with wedge issues makes the opposition stronger.
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