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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Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Those aren’t conservatives
Purge every last dirty one of them
Retirement is - “honorable”.
Just getting out before the roof caves in. Assured of a satisfactory pension even if they NEVER lift a finger the rest of their lives. And they may still carve out a new career as “elder statesmen”, harumphing and pontificating on things they would never address while still in office.
You dont do that in an election year and risk backlash and losing power! And it will be legalized in every state (except maybe a few) in the very near future. Enjoy your pyrrhic victory!
RINOs are being slaughtered.
The only thing the people hate worse than Democrats is Republicans.
If liberals want to abort their kids...i say good riddance, less liberals. You religious nuts are hurting our party! I care about preventing a one world government and becoming a slave to the rich elite and you have risked it all on a fringe issue!
Replacement Democrats make no difference: all Democrats vote alike in the House. OTOH, replacement Republicans can make a huge difference, if 1) the replacements are MAGA, and 2) there are enough of them to keep the GOPe leadership from bullying them into Assistant Democratism.
You do realize the Donkeys are gonna get crushed in November, right?
Keep clearing out the traitors and maybe we won’t have to keep going through this crap. Good riddance give them a good kick in the butt
Only if each and every one of us works our a$$ off to make it happen. That means donating $$$ and time. Getting the word out not just on this site but others where we can spread the message to moderates and impressionable liberals who may see our side! If we sit back and just expect a win to fall in our lap, we will get destroyed! It’s happening already based on head to heads with the Dems.
I'm with you on that... but if we can get rid of RINO's and still keep the seats it's a win-win. Liz Cheney stands with totalitarians - I don't give a damn if she supports 'spending 10 million less' on some silly bill. Yes, I want smaller government too but not at the expense of our freedom of speech and right to vote for the person of OUR choice.
I agree, Alaska being an example of where we can do just that!
according to liz
they are all Abraham Lincoln
they lost an election
You view SC judges as ‘politicians’?
Yes...they vote along party lines don’t they? That’s why winning the Senate is so important!
Yeah it’s all our fault for remaining true to our faith and principles instead of caving in like dirty fake republicans
yes
you only see abortion thru a political lens
we have good insight into your character
Early term abortion has approval across party lines. It’s political suicide to end it (and you haven’t...you just made it a state issue and helped a few dems keep their governorships). Go ahead and end welfare while we’re at it...see what kind of backlash you get. It’s POLITICS!!! They could have just ended late term abortions and left it at that!
young women likely to vote MAGA are not that concerned about abortion, because they’re probably not going to need to get one
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