Posted on 05/22/2024 3:21:52 AM PDT by cotton1706
Fifteen incumbent Republican legislators, including Senate President Pro Tem Chuck Winder, R-Boise; Sen. Scott Herndon, R-Sagle; and Rep. Julianne Young, R-Blackfoot; lost their re-election bids Tuesday, according to unofficial primary election results released by the state and counties.
Winder, the highest ranking member of the Idaho Senate, lost to Republican challenger Josh Keyser in the District 20, Idaho Senate Republican primary election. With 100% of Ada County precincts reporting, Keyser secured a 281-vote victory over Winder, according to the Ada County Elections Office.
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RINOs are usually political careerists or are otherwise unable to recognize or accept the possibility that Leftists may impose a radical discontinuity in American life and politics. As a result, for RINOs, populist conservatives are the threat because they want to have the GOP do strenuous things to fight the Left.
Lots of people from the Left Coast moving to Idaho. Hope Idaho has not been Californicated.
Lots of people from the Left Coast moving to Idaho. Hope Idaho has not been Californicated.
Excellent post. Thanks.
In short, there seems to be a civil war with mixed results, but the good guys have the upper hand.
In the five potential losses, any chance that the challengers were either running on the right or are equally conservative but running on truly local issues?
Whether they are for or against school choice would likely be a good single-issue litmus test, which simplifies things, but overly-simplifying is often a bad thing. Finding a good middle ground between reading the headlines and knowing what one is talking about can be difficult.
Thanks again for your post.
Too bad. And turnout was really poor - 23%. You’d think people would be motivated to turn out, given the state of the world today. Sigh...
“In the five potential losses, any chance that the challengers were either running on the right or are equally conservative but running on truly local issues?”
I can’t say for sure but it’s doubtful. All 5 of the defeated conservatives had all the right endorsements as far as I can tell, and it would be difficult to outflank them to the good side. It could very well be that voters fall for the throw-the-bums-out “logic” and fail to recognize who is a bum and who is not because they have no clue who these representatives are or how they vote.
Furthermore, there doesn’t seem to be any personal foibles which would explain any specific defeat.
It should be noted that every single incumbent who lost, even the RINOs, are from very safe Republican districts. Unless there is a complete revolt by squishy voters in the general election, the GOP should easily hold every one of these seats. There are very few marginal districts in Idaho, and none of those are involved here.
Thanks.
I looked up Young’s challenger
He’s a Mormon—looks and smells like a Mormon from rural Idaho from his answers on Ballotpedia. The only initial red-flag is being middle-of-the-road on immigration, but Mormons, in my experience, always “grow”.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ben_Fuhriman#Campaign_themes
He isn’t Mitt Romney yet, but Mitt started off in Michigan. If the other potential losses are of this caliber, it won’t affect caucus greatly, but in the long term one has some “sheep” that may turn out to be wolf pups (or cougars-IIRC he is a BYU grad)
I understand the throw-the-bums out side effects.
My Uncle was a small town mayor in Oregon-—a non partisan office (he was a registered and committed Libertarian) He went down in the 2010 wave after about 20 years in office.
His widow is now on Council.
A lot of those left coasters are hardcore conservatives like myself. I make John Birchers look like commies.
I had considered retiring to Idaho, but getting 2-5 acres would be much too expensive now. We’re looking at a different dark red state now.
From the news article bashing the MAGA winners, it tells you we’re winning there.
I love when liberals cry and gnash their teeth
In a place with a history of hate, an unlikely fight against GOP extremism (WaPo, May 20)
North Idaho has beaten the far right before. Now renegade Republicans are seeking to root it out of their own party, with a crucial test in Tuesday’s primary.
Looks like the "renegades" (RINOs) lost bigly! 🤣🤣🤣
*I make me nervous when folks comment on headlines w/o reading the articles.*
That’s all I do.
*In that case, you better find another forum.*
Not me I love it here.
*I come first for the jokes and secondly for insightful commentary—together which, in a good thread, may make up a third of the posts.*
Very good. Might explain why some of us here are not liked.
*I come first for the jokes and secondly for insightful commentary—together which, in a good thread, may make up a third of the posts.*
Very good. Might explain why some of us here are not liked.
*In that case, you better find another forum.*
Not me I love it here.
FWIW the original poster I was responding to seemed annoyed at people commenting without reading the articles. I have no problem with that, but if doing so one should either be witty and concise or fairly insightful into the general situation if they want five stars from me.
If they don’t want five starts from me, I’m not offended.
Exactly, that would be the analysis worth reading.
” hardcore conservatives like myself. I make John Birchers look like commies.”
That made me chuckle out loud. Enough I had to read it out loud and then had to explain to them. Thanks for that. Helping educate Pele and setting a standard.
Hier-we have fun here and don’t take things serious. That’s what lefty’s do.
Please take your Republican friends to the polls to vote for the challenger. It’s going to take a lot of work. He had two primary opponents in 2022. About 150,000 republicans voted. He got 88,000 votes.
“I looked up Young’s challenger
He’s a Mormon—looks and smells like a Mormon from rural Idaho from his answers on Ballotpedia.”
Yeah, “Mormon” is extremely often a red flag. And in as state like Utah or Idaho and perhaps isolated places in other states such as Arizona, Nevada and Wyoming, being a Mormon is very important to the electorate. Truly conservative Mormon politicians are rare things.
If the conservative was not a Mormon and lost here, I think we have our explanation. Mormons will always vote for their own kind over someone who isn’t part of the tribe, and as a group they greatly prefer someone who is NOT conservative over someone who is.
Are you talking about John Rutherford and him having two primary opponents ???
I don’t know much about either one, I plan to vote for one of them.
Leigha Lopez and Mara Macie, do you know anything about either one of them.
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