{"id":1585800,"date":"2022-08-03T00:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T04:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585800"},"modified":"2022-08-03T00:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T04:19:38","slug":"live-updates-schmitt-wins-missouri-gop-senate-primary-to-face-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/live-updates-schmitt-wins-missouri-gop-senate-primary-to-face-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE UPDATES: Schmitt Wins Missouri GOP Senate Primary, to Face Valentine"},"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\">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%2Flive-updates-schmitt-wins-missouri-gop-senate-primary-to-face-valentine%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=1585800&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>The latest on the\u00a0Aug. 2 primaries in Arizona, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-michigan\">Michigan<\/a>, Missouri, Kansas, and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas Primaries: Kelly-Schmidt Governor Race, Davids-Adkins CD 3 Clash Set for November <\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Value Them Both\u2019 abortion ballot proposition was the dominant issue on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas<\/a>\u2019 otherwise bland Aug. 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-primary\">primary<\/a> ballot, which offered few competitive inter-party races but cleared the decks for several compelling clashes in fall\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p>Most notable among the general election contests is the already underway\u00a0toss-up brawl between incumbent Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and her Republican challenger, Kansas attorney general Derek Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>Both blew past nominal opposition in slam-dunk Aug. 2 primary victories and have millions to spend in what is projected to be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/kansas-governor-primaries-only-formalities-before-falls-intense-kelly-schmidt-showdown_4626744.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the nation\u2019s most compelling governor elections<\/a>\u00a0of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-2022-midterms\">2022 midterms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Kelly-Schmidt race is one of 36 gubernatorial elections nationwide this fall. Kelly is among 22 Democratic governors seeking re-election but the only trying to do so in a state that former President Donald Trump won in 2020, garnering 56 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly and incumbent Lt. Gov. David Toland, who also serves as Kansas secretary of commerce, easily cruised past former Republican and \u201canti-abortion Democrat\u201d Richard Karnowski of Seneca and his Lt. Gov. hopeful, Barry Franco, in their Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/kansas-primaries-kelly-schmidt-governor-race-davids-adkins-cd-3-clash-set-for-november_4638032.html\"><em>Read the full article here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p> Schmitt Wins Hotly Contested US Senate Primary in Missouri <\/p>\n<p>Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt won the Republican Senate primary race on Aug. 2, bringing the expensive, hard-fought race to a conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Polls closed in the race at 7 p.m. CST. Decision Desk HQ called the race for Schmitt roughly an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>The contest kicked off after incumbent Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) announced in 2021 that he would not be seeking reelection in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The race was shaken up by former President Trump\u2019s last-minute, Aug. 1 endorsement, in which he pledged his support to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest on the\u00a0Aug. 2 primaries in Arizona, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, and Washington. Kansas Primaries: Kelly-Schmidt Governor Race, Davids-Adkins CD 3 Clash Set for November The \u2018Value Them Both\u2019 abortion ballot proposition was the dominant issue on\u00a0Kansas\u2019 otherwise bland Aug. 2 primary ballot, which offered few competitive inter-party races but cleared the decks for several [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":833,"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-1585800","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\/1585800","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\/833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585800\/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=1585800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}