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Associated Press
Meg Kinnard
The Republican match in the Wisconsin Governor's election on Tuesday was approved by former President Donald Trump and his estranged Vice President Mike Pence. Candidates will appear. The Democratic Party is selecting candidates to confront Senator Ron Johnson of the Second Republican Party to manage the tightly divided chamber of commerce.
Meanwhile, Vermont voters have opted to replace Senator Patrick Leahy because the longest-serving member of the Chamber of Commerce has retired. In Minnesota, US Congressman Ilhan Omar faces a major Democratic challenger who helped defeat the referendum to replace the Minneapolis police station with a new public safety agency.
Notable in Tuesday's primary elections in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut:
Wisconsin
Co-owner of construction company Tim Michels, who was backed by Trump's governor's election, advertised both the support of the former president who worked to build his family's business in Wisconsin's largest construction company and his year, and his own. I've spent millions of money. Michels casts himself as an outsider, but he previously lost the campaign to expel the United States at the time. Senator Russell D. Feingold was a prominent Republican donor in 2004 and has been active for a long time.
Founding Republicans, including Pence and former Governor Scott Walker, supported former Vice-Governor Rebecca Kleefifish, who survived the 2012 recall efforts with Walker. She claims to have the experience and knowledge to pursue conservative priorities, including the dismantling of bipartisan committees that conduct elections.
The Democratic Party also chooses to take on Johnson because Senate rule is at stake. Democratic support coalesced around Lieutenant Mandelavans later in the race, with his three top rivals dropping out and throwing support at him. If elected, he will be the state's first black senator.
Although some lesser-known candidates remain in the primary, Johnson and Republicans treat Burns as a candidate, and Trump won in 2016 but lost in 2020 Wisconsin. I considered it too liberal for the state.
Also in the Third Parliamentary District of Wisconsin, four Democrats are running for election. This seat was opened with the retirement of veteran Democratic US lawmaker Ron Kind. The district tends to be Republican, with Derrick Van Oden, who lost slightly to Kind in 2020 and has Trump's support, not opposed.
Minnesota
Democratic Governor Tim Walz faces a lesser-known enemy when seeking his second term. His probably challenger is Scott Jensen, a doctor and former state legislator who has made vaccine skepticism the centerpiece of his campaign and is facing the opposition to tokens.
Both men have been running virtual campaigns for several months, including attacking Waltz to manage a pandemic and hammering the governor for increased crime around Minneapolis. Waltz emphasized his own support for the right to abortion, suggesting that Jensen would pose a threat to undermine the legality of the procedure in Minnesota.
Crime has emerged as the biggest problem in Congressman Omar's Democratic primary. She faces a challenge from Don Samuels, a former member of the Minneapolis City Council. Don Samuels opposed the movement to reimburse police and helped defeat efforts to replace the city's police station last year. Omar, who supported the referendum, has considerable financial benefits and is expected to benefit from strong grassroots activities.
The most confusing part of Tuesday's vote was the first parliamentary constituency seat held by Congressman Jim Hazydawn, who died of cancer earlier this year. Former Republican House of Representatives Brad Finstad and former Hormel CEO Democrat Jeff Ettinger compete in primaries at the same time, ending the next two-year November elections and the final elections to represent the Southern Minnesota region. Decide on a special election. Hagedoln's term of office is several months.
Connecticut
It's been about 30 years since Connecticut placed a Republican in the US Senate, but the party hasn't given up.
In the Republican primary, which undertakes Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, the party supported former state legislator minority leader Themis Clarides. She is a social moderate who supports the right to abortion and certain gun control measures, and states that she did not vote for Trump in 2020. Clarides argues that her experience and position can convince voters to oppose Blumental, a second-term senator who registered 45% of the job in May. The lowest.
Clarides has been challenged by Conservative lawyer Peter Lumaji and Leora Levy, a member of the Republican National Committee approved by Trump last week. Both candidates oppose the right to abortion and further restrictions on guns, and they support Trump's policy.
VERMONT
Leahy's retirement opens two seats in three small parliamentary delegations in Vermont, and the state sends women to represent women in Washington for the first time. I was given the opportunity.
Democratic Rep. Peter Welch, a state legislator, began bidding in the Senate shortly after revealing that Lee Hee had resigned. Lee Hee, acting chairman of the Senate, has been hospitalized several times in the last two years, including after her hip fracture this summer.
Welch has been approved by Sanders and is likely to win a seat in November. He faces two other Democrats in the primary. Activist Isaac Evans Franz and emergency physician Dr. Nikislan.
On the Republican side, former US lawyer Christina Nolan, former US Army officer Gerald Malloy, and investment banker Myers Melmel are vying for nominations.
Welch's replacement competition spawned the first widespread US House campaign in Vermont since 2006.
Two women, including Lieutenant Molly Gray and State Senator Protempo Becca Balint, are top Democratic candidates for the race. Elected in the first political bid in 2020, Gray is a lawyer and former Assistant Attorney General.
Democratic primary winners will be a great favorite to win the Liberal general election. In 2018, when Mississippi Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith was appointed to the Senate, Vermont became the last state in Congress to have no female representatives.
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Associated Press writer Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin. Douggrass in Minneapolis; Susan Hay in Hartford, Connecticut. Wilson Ring of Montpilia, Vermont contributed to this report.
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