{"id":1640443,"date":"2022-09-13T18:20:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T22:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640443"},"modified":"2022-09-13T18:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T22:20:46","slug":"new-england-taking-center-stage-as-an-ultra-right-versus-ultra-left-battleground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-england-taking-center-stage-as-an-ultra-right-versus-ultra-left-battleground\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Taking Center Stage as an Ultra-Right Versus Ultra-Left Battleground"},"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%2Fnew-england-taking-center-stage-as-an-ultra-right-versus-ultra-left-battleground%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=1640443&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 two more primaries to go in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-new-england\">New England<\/a>, the picks so far in the six states that make up the east coast region show that far-right Republicans are winning in high-profile contested primaries.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest upset came in Connecticut when newcomer Leora Levy, who won an unexpected 11th-hour Trump endorsement, beat out party favorite and moderate Themis Klarides for the party nomination for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The same happened in Massachusetts where Geoff Diehl won the gubernatorial ticket against moderate Republican Chris Doughty, and in Vermont where Christina Nolan, the favored contender lost to right-wing U.S. Army veteran Gerald Malloy, another newcomer to election politics.<\/p>\n<p>Malloy has the advantage of facing a newcomer on the Democratic side with Patrick Leahy, a Democrat who has held the seat for nearly 50 years, chose against running for another term.<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s New Hampshire and Rhode Island\u2019s turn and both states are showing some similar trends.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/13\/AshleyKalus.png\"><\/a> Republican candidate for R.I. Gov. Ashley Kalus. (Courtesy of Ashley Kalus) <\/p>\n<p>Ultra-conservative Don Bolduc is leading the pack according to polls in their bid to take on Democrat Maggie Hassan for her U.S. Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing Bolduc is House Speaker Chuck Morse, a moderate who won the endorsement of New Hampshire\u2019s Gov. Chris Sununu.<\/p>\n<p>Sununu is seeking re-election to a fourth term and while there are plenty of anti-Sununu Republicans in the state, they say the pool of hard-right candidates gunning for his ouster is probably not strong enough to pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>However, in Rhode Island, another long-time sitting governor Dan McKee, a Democrat, is actually facing the very good possibility of being the first incumbent governor to be ousted in this year\u2019s midterm elections by a party contender.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea has been showing a consistent slight lead over McKee in the four-candidate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With two more primaries to go in New England, the picks so far in the six states that make up the east coast region show that far-right Republicans are winning in high-profile contested primaries. The biggest upset came in Connecticut when newcomer Leora Levy, who won an unexpected 11th-hour Trump endorsement, beat out party favorite [\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-1640443","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\/1640443","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=1640443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640443\/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=1640443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}