{"id":1525799,"date":"2022-06-22T12:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525799"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:19:41","slug":"trump-backed-candidates-lose-badly-in-key-gop-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-backed-candidates-lose-badly-in-key-gop-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Backed Candidates Lose Badly In Key GOP Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-backed-candidates-lose-badly-in-key-gop-primaries%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525799&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Tuesday\u2019s primary and runoff elections saw two Trump-backed candidates suffer massive losses as the former president\u2019s endorsement record endures recent setbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Both Trump-endorsed candidates in Georgia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/21\/1105842305\/georgia-primary-election-runoff-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost <\/a>their Republican congressional races in the state\u2019s Tuesday runoffs. Trump-endorsed Jake Evans from the 6th Congressional District lost to Dr. Rich McCormick by 33 points, and Vernon Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/3530381-7-races-to-watch-tuesday-from-alabama-to-georgia-and-beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost<\/a> his race in the 10th Congressional District by 49 points to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp-endorsed Mike Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Trump-endorsed Jody Hice also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/24\/brian-kemp-wins-georgia-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost<\/a> his Republican nomination for Georgia secretary of state. However, Trump-endorsed Katie Britt from Alabama did <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/21\/katie-britt-defeats-mo-brooks-alabama-gop-senate-nomination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pull out<\/a> a 26 point win for her senate seat nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat and Republican congressional seats as well as Democrat secretary of state and lieutenant governor nominations were up for grabs in Georgia, testing the endorsement powers of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and Donald Trump. Virginia only had two contested congressional seats up for grabs in the primary, but the races were tightly contested due to the number of candidates running for the seats.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7455491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7455491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie Britt and Moe Brooks. (Sean Gardner\/Getty Images) (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Georgia, Stacey Abrams-endorsed candidate Bee Nguyen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/21\/1105842305\/georgia-primary-election-runoff-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">won<\/a> the Democratic nomination for secretary of state against challenger Dee Dawkins-Haigler. Nguyen, a state representative, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/3530381-7-races-to-watch-tuesday-from-alabama-to-georgia-and-beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">led<\/a> by 26 points in the primary, but was unable to pass the threshold to win without a runoff; she will face GOP candidate Brad Raffensperger in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Bailey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/21\/1105842305\/georgia-primary-election-runoff-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">secured<\/a> the Democratic nomination for Georgia lieutenant governor and Tabitha Johnson-Green <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/21\/1105842305\/georgia-primary-election-runoff-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">won<\/a> the 10th Congressional District\u2019s Democrat Congressional runoff.<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia\u2019s 2nd Congressional District, it was a close 3 point race call for Chris West to win the GOP runoff, and 41 point win for Mark Gonsalves in the 7th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>In Virginia, the 2nd Congressional District had four candidates to choose from with Jen Kiggans, a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/3530381-7-races-to-watch-tuesday-from-alabama-to-georgia-and-beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state senator<\/a>, pulling out the win with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/21\/1105823248\/virginia-primary-election-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">55.8%<\/a> of the vote. Six candidates were vying for the Republican nomination in Virginia\u2019s 7th Congressional District, with Yesli Vega, a police officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/21\/1105823248\/virginia-primary-election-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">projected<\/a> to secure the win.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia underwent <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/3530381-7-races-to-watch-tuesday-from-alabama-to-georgia-and-beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redistricting<\/a> that caused the 2nd Congressional District to lean more Republican and the 7th to move toward Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday\u2019s primary and runoff elections saw two Trump-backed candidates suffer massive losses as the former president\u2019s endorsement record endures recent setbacks.Both Trump-endorsed candidates in Georgia lost their Republican congressional races<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":958,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}