{"id":1632761,"date":"2022-09-04T18:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T22:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632761"},"modified":"2022-09-04T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T22:49:15","slug":"massachusetts-republicans-see-path-to-win-house-seats-in-blue-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-republicans-see-path-to-win-house-seats-in-blue-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Republicans See Path to Win House Seats in Blue State"},"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%2Fmassachusetts-republicans-see-path-to-win-house-seats-in-blue-state%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=1632761&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>With contested Republican primaries for two of the nine U.S. House seats in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-massachusetts\">Massachusetts<\/a>, state conservatives aren\u2019t feeling as blue as the Democrats have\u00a0historically left them feeling.<\/p>\n<p>The last time a Republican represented Massachusetts in Washington DC was Scott Brown, a state Senator who was voted in to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) Kennedy died from complications stemming from brain cancer. After his special election victory, Brown lost his reelection bid to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)<\/p>\n<p>The last Republican elected to the U.S. House from Massachusetts was Peter Blute in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>But Massachusetts Republican candidates believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-2022\">2022<\/a> could be different. They point to the possibility that the same voters who put progressives like Frank in office are exhausted by an overly-woke Democratic party, have been turned party faithless by President Joe Biden\u2019s inflation-driving policies, and were \u201cawakened\u201d by a liberal government overreach during the COVID-19 shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could be the year,\u201d Jim Lyons, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, told The Epoch Times. \u201cIf there has ever been a time that Massachusetts Republicans have a chance of returning to Washington DC, it\u2019s this election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adding to increased confidence for the GOP is a whopping 77 percent of state voters who remain unenrolled with either party.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Sullivan, who is running in two of the Bay State\u2019s contested Republican primaries for a congressional seat in Washington DC, says, \u201cthat\u2019s a lot of votes up for grabs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Massachusetts, unenrolled voters can still participate in the primaries. They are given a choice at the polls to cast their vote as either a Republican or a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan, a surgical nurse at a community hospital, is hoping they will vote Republican in the state\u2019s 9th district, and he is hoping to be their choice to unseat longtime incumbent Bill Keating, a Democrat, in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With contested Republican primaries for two of the nine U.S. House seats in Massachusetts, state conservatives aren\u2019t feeling as blue as the Democrats have\u00a0historically left them feeling. The last time a Republican represented Massachusetts in Washington DC was Scott Brown, a state Senator who was voted in to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) Kennedy died [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"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-1632761","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\/1632761","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\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632761\/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=1632761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}