{"id":1531095,"date":"2022-06-28T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531095"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:15:24","slug":"mississippi-republican-who-supported-jan-6-commission-faces-june-28-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mississippi-republican-who-supported-jan-6-commission-faces-june-28-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Republican Who Supported Jan. 6 Commission Faces June 28 Runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fmississippi-republican-who-supported-jan-6-commission-faces-june-28-runoff%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=1531095&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>Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), a lawmaker who voted in favor of forming a Jan. 6 Commission, has entered the final stretch before a June 28 runoff election against U.S. Navy veteran Michael Cassidy.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mississippi\">Mississippi<\/a>\u2019s 3rd District actually lost the initial June 7 primary election to Cassidy, receiving just 46.9 percent of the vote to Cassidy\u2019s 47.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Runoffs are triggered in Mississippi primary elections if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to warring over Guest\u2019s support for a commission, the two candidates have sparred over Cassidy\u2019s alleged economic views.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s1vXZNxDxEI\">attack ad<\/a> against Cassidy accused him of backing an \u201cextreme socialist agenda\u201d that would have added $48 trillion in social spending, <a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2022\/06\/09\/michael-cassidy-mississippi-social-spending-platform\/\">as reported by Mississippi Today<\/a>. That ad was funded by the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), a national super PAC supported by current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.),<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi Today based the $48 trillion figure on proposals from the candidate\u2019s website, including one that appeared to mirror some Democrats\u2019 vision of \u201cMedicare for All.\u201d Those policy ideas were subsequently taken down.<\/p>\n<p>In a June 24 interview with The Epoch Times, Cassidy acknowledged the proposals were on his website, but claims the assertion that he supports broad new health care spending for Americans is \u201ca complete lie and misrepresentation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is, before I began campaigning, I did a stupid thing,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that was to brainstorm policy ideas on my website.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy claimed that while he initially hoped that more Americans could access the caliber of health plan that he has through the U.S. Navy, he quickly realized that such a vision was too expensive.<\/p>\n<p>He took issue with the CLF\u2019s efforts to defeat him. OpenSecrets shows that it has spent $448,783 to oppose Cassidy\u2019s candidacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/political-action-committees-pacs\/congressional-leadership-fund\/C00504530\/pac-to-pac\/2022\">According to<\/a> that same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), a lawmaker who voted in favor of forming a Jan. 6 Commission, has entered the final stretch before a June 28 runoff election against U.S. Navy veteran Michael Cassidy. The congressman from Mississippi\u2019s 3rd District actually lost the initial June 7 primary election to Cassidy, receiving just 46.9 percent of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"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-1531095","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\/1531095","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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531095\/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=1531095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}