Voters reject Trump-backed election deniers in several key states

WASHINGTON - Voters in a series of critical battleground states rejected Republican candidates for governor, attorney general and secretary of state who have spread doubts about the 2020 election, blocking an effort to install allies of former President Donald Trump in positions with sweeping authority over voting.

Though Republicans drastically underperformed their own expectations, the 2022 midterms are far from resolved. The major gains that Republicans promised never materialised, but a ripple was inching the party toward a narrow majority in the House. And Senate control for either party was on a knife’s edge.

Voters’ verdict in several states amounted to a repudiation – at least in part – of some of the most extreme positions on elections that Republicans have adopted since Trump’s 2020 defeat. In several closely watched races, Republicans who have staked out such ground fared worse Tuesday night than their GOP counterparts who recognized Biden’s legitimacy.

“You showed up because you saw that democracy was on the brink of existence, and you decided to do a damn thing about it,” Gov Tony Evers of Wisconsin told supporters on early Wednesday after a concession by his Republican rival, Mr Tim Michels, who had promised that his party would “never lose another election” in the state if he were elected.

In Pennsylvania, Mr Josh Shapiro, the state’s Democratic attorney general, defeated Mr Doug Mastriano, a Republican state senator who marched near the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, and has pushed for significant new voting restrictions.

straits_times Republicans took over the house and possibly also the senate- whom are you fooling around?

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