{"id":1531698,"date":"2022-06-28T19:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T23:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531698"},"modified":"2022-06-28T19:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T23:19:38","slug":"live-updates-voters-in-7-states-cast-ballots-in-midterm-primaries-runoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/live-updates-voters-in-7-states-cast-ballots-in-midterm-primaries-runoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE UPDATES: Voters in 7 States Cast Ballots in Midterm Primaries, Runoffs"},"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\">24<\/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%2Flive-updates-voters-in-7-states-cast-ballots-in-midterm-primaries-runoffs%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=1531698&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>Dozens of local, state, and congressional races on tap as voters in seven states head to polls for June 28 runoffs and primaries<\/p>\n<p><em>5:21 p.m. ET<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-utah\">Utah<\/a> Voters Split Over Which Republican to Pick for Senate <\/p>\n<p>SPANISH FORK, Utah\u2014Utah County primary voters went to the polls on June 28 to choose between incumbents or to chart a new direction with candidates for change in the U.S. House and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>At the Spanish Fork Senior Centern in the heavily Republican county, voting was steady and consistent throughout most of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Merrill of Mapleton, a registered Republican, said he voted for incumbent U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) because, \u201cI like what he\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like him to continue doing it,\u201d Merrill told The Epoch Times in an exit poll. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel a lot of sincerity in [Republican opponent] Becky Edwards. I feel that if it\u2019s not broken, don\u2019t fix it. I feel he\u2019s doing good work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merrill said he votes in every election, but in this election, the driving issue is \u201cthe economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the economy is important. I think voting is important. I\u2019m not a big fan of red flag [gun control] laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A red flag law allows someone to petition a state court to order the confiscation of firearms if a person is considered dangerous to himself or others.<\/p>\n<p>Merrill said he\u2019s also pro-life, which factored into his decision to vote in this election.<\/p>\n<p>A woman who didn\u2019t want her name used voted mail-in ballot for Lee as a Trump Republican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter and I did it together. I did Republican all the way,\u201d the woman told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>The voter said there was no reason to vote for Edwards, a former Utah state representative, or business executive Ally Isom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Lee] has been doing a pretty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5:21 p.m. ET Utah Voters Split Over Which Republican to Pick for Senate SPANISH FORK, Utah\u2014Utah County primary voters went to the polls on June 28 to choose between incumbents or to chart a new direction with candidates for change in the U.S. House and Senate. At the Spanish Fork Senior Centern in the heavily [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"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-1531698","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\/1531698","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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531698\/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=1531698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}