{"id":1542097,"date":"2022-07-06T19:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T23:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542097"},"modified":"2022-07-06T19:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T23:04:30","slug":"conservatives-in-9-states-call-for-closed-primaries-by-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-in-9-states-call-for-closed-primaries-by-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives in 9 States Call for Closed Primaries by 2024"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fconservatives-in-9-states-call-for-closed-primaries-by-2024%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=1542097&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>Conservative leaders in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-georgia\">Georgia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ohio\">Ohio<\/a> are spearheading calls for Republicans to close their state primaries and allow only voters registered with their parties to participate in inter-party preliminary elections.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta Tea Party co-founder and President Debbie Dooley and Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jim-renacci\">Jim Renacci<\/a> both told The Epoch Times that Democrats are \u201cweaponizing\u201d crossover voting to skew outcomes in key GOP primaries across the country either to ensure the election of moderates or to nominate candidates unlikely to be successful in a general election.<\/p>\n<p>Dooley, Renacci, and other conservatives are calling on Republican lawmakers in their states to close primaries to only those registered with parties.<\/p>\n<p>They join the leaders of conservative groups and GOP legislators in at least seven other states\u2014including Alabama, Montana, Missouri, Tennessee, New Hampshire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wyoming\">Wyoming<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/republicans-looking-to-tighten-eligibility-for-state-primaries_4572486.html\"> Texas<\/a>\u2014who are lobbying for more restrictive primary elections before the 2024 election cycle.<\/p>\n<p> Tide of \u2018Crossovers\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats did mischief\u201d in Georgia, Dooley said, citing analyses from The Associated Press and Landmark Communications that estimate anywhere from 67,000 to 85,000 voters who cast ballots in the state\u2019s 2020 Democratic primaries voted in Republican primaries on May 24, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The analyses confirmed conservatives\u2019 contention that a Democrat-orchestrated tide of \u201ccrossover\u201d votes proved decisive as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger garnered the required 50 percent in the GOP primary to avoid a runoff against Trump-backed challenger Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.).<\/p>\n<p>Dooley, the national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, said that unless Georgia tightens its primary rules, Democrats will continue to meddle in GOP primaries, especially to undermine candidates backed by former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2024, if he is on the ballot, [Democrats] could use this as a weapon to stop Trump in the GOP primary,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Dooley said she has drafted a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/make-georgia-a-closed-primary-state\"> petition<\/a> that calls for the state to revise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative leaders in Georgia and Ohio are spearheading calls for Republicans to close their state primaries and allow only voters registered with their parties to participate in inter-party preliminary elections. Atlanta Tea Party co-founder and President Debbie Dooley and Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Renacci both told The Epoch Times that Democrats are \u201cweaponizing\u201d crossover [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":1894769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/conservatives-in-nine-states-calling-for-closed-primaries-by-2024_4578842.html","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542097","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=1542097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}