Kansas Upheld Abortion Rights And Other Key Updates From The Aug. 2 Elections
In Arizona’s 1st District, incumbent GOP Rep. David Schweikert leads insurance company founder Elijah Norton 44 percent to 34 percent, with 77 percent of the expected vote already reporting. Norton went after Schweikert for his various ethics scandals, including a fine by the FEC for campaign violations and ethics violations handed down by the House Ethics Committee. Norton also had a big fundraising advantage thanks to his personal wealth. But Schweikert and his allies criticized Norton for running an insurance company that allegedly defrauded customers. They even sent out mailers to voters that implied Norton was gay, which prompted a lawsuit by another man pictured in the mailer.
Along with Finchem, multiple candidates who denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election are currently leading their races in Arizona. This includes Masters, currently leading in the GOP race for senate. Masters has said, “I think Trump won in 2020,” and that election officials and the media “conspired to manipulate the 2020 election.” Masters has 34 percent of the vote.
How election deniers are doing tonight
Senate, House, gubernatorial, attorney general and secretary of state candidates who have either denied or questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election, and their results in Republican primaries in Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington, as of 11:24 p.m. Eastern
| CANDIDATE | OFFICE | Position on 2020 election | % REPORTING | VOTE SHARE | STATUS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blake Masters | AZ Sen. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 57% | 34.4% | Leading | |||||
| Jim Lamon | AZ Sen. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 57 | 30.6 | Trailing | |||||
| Mark Brnovich | AZ Sen. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 57 | 20.2 | Trailing | |||||
| Kari Lake | AZ Gov. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 59 | 40.5 | Trailing | |||||
| Matt Salmon | AZ Gov. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 59 | 4.5 | Trailing | |||||
| Scott Neely | AZ Gov. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 59 | 3.5 | Trailing | |||||
| Paola “Z.” Tulliani-Zen | AZ Gov. | ❓Raised doubts | 59 | 2.4 | Trailing | |||||
| Mark Finchem | AZ SoS | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 53 | 35.6 | Leading | |||||
| Shawnna Bolick | AZ SoS | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 53 | 20.2 | Trailing | |||||
| Abraham “Abe” Hamadeh | AZ AG | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 54 | 28.8 | Leading | |||||
| Rodney Glassman | AZ AG | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 54 | 24.3 | Trailing | |||||
| Dawn Grove | AZ AG | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 54 | 14.0 | Trailing | |||||
| Tiffany Shedd | AZ AG | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 54 | 5.0 | Trailing | |||||
| David Schweikert* | AZ-01 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 77 | 43.7 | Leading | |||||
| Elijah Norton | AZ-01 | ❓Raised doubts | 77 | 34.0 | Trailing | |||||
| Josh Barnett | AZ-01 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 77 | 22.4 | Trailing | |||||
| Eli Crane | AZ-02 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 48 | 33.2 | Leading | |||||
| Walter “Walt” Blackman | AZ-02 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 48 | 24.0 | Trailing | |||||
| Mark DeLuzio | AZ-02 | ❓Raised doubts | 48 | 18.6 | Trailing | |||||
| John Moore | AZ-02 | ❓Raised doubts | 48 | 6.8 | Trailing | |||||
| Ron Watkins | AZ-02 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 48 | 3.1 | Trailing | |||||
| Jeff Zink | AZ-03 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 36 | 100.0 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Kelly Cooper | AZ-04 | ❓Raised doubts | 60 | 30.3 | Leading | |||||
| Dave Giles | AZ-04 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 60 | 19.2 | Trailing | |||||
| Jerone Davison | AZ-04 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 60 | 11.1 | Trailing | |||||
| Andy Biggs* | AZ-05 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 45 | 100.0 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Juan Ciscomani | AZ-06 | ❓Raised doubts | 51 | 47.9 | Leading | |||||
| Brandon Martin | AZ-06 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 51 | 19.7 | Trailing | |||||
| Kathleen Winn | AZ-06 | ❓Raised doubts | 51 | 17.5 | Trailing | |||||
| Luis Pozzolo | AZ-07 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 33 | 66.4 | Leading | |||||
| Debbie Lesko* | AZ-08 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 64 | 100.0 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Paul Gosar* | AZ-09 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 58 | 63.4 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Randy Kutz | AZ-09 | ❓Raised doubts | 58 | 13.8 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Joan Farr | KS Sen. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 94 | 19.9 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Derek Schmidt | KS Gov. | ❓Raised doubts | 91 | 80.1 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Mike Brown | KS SoS | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 87 | 44.4 | Trailing | |||||
| Kris Kobach | KS AG | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 93 | 41.0 | Leading | |||||
| John A. McCaughrean | KS-03 | ❓Raised doubts | 99 | 22.6 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Ron Estes* | KS-04 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 5 | 100.0 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Tudor M. Dixon | MI Gov. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 52 | 39.7 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Kevin Rinke | MI Gov. | ❓Raised doubts | 52 | 21.2 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Garrett Soldano | MI Gov. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 52 | 18.9 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Ryan D. Kelley | MI Gov. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 52 | 15.7 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Ralph Rebandt | MI Gov. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 52 | 4.1 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Jack Bergman | MI-01 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 12 | 100.0 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Thomas J. Norton | MI-02 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 80 | 33.0 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| John Gibbs | MI-03 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 63 | 49.7 | Trailing | |||||
| Tim Walberg* | MI-05 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 52 | 63.8 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Sherry O’Donnell | MI-05 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 52 | 36.0 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Hima Kolanagireddy | MI-06 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 33 | 49.7 | Trailing | |||||
| Tom Barrett | MI-07 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 15 | 100.0 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Matthew Seely | MI-08 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 42 | 23.2 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Lisa McClain* | MI-09 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 39 | 79.4 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Michelle R.E. Donovan | MI-09 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 39 | 20.5 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| John James | MI-10 | ❓Raised doubts | 21 | 87.6 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Tony Marcinkewciz | MI-10 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 21 | 12.4 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| James Hooper | MI-12 | ❓Raised doubts | 18 | 34.2 | Trailing | |||||
| Eric Schmitt | MO Sen. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 75 | 45.7 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Vicky Hartzler | MO Sen. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 75 | 22.1 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Eric Greitens | MO Sen. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 75 | 19.0 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Billy Long | MO Sen. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 75 | 4.8 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Mark McCloskey | MO Sen. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 75 | 3.0 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Bernie Mowinski | MO Sen. | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 75 | 0.2 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Hartford Tunnell | MO Sen. | ❓Raised doubts | 75 | 0.1 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Wesley Smith | MO-02 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 81 | 9.0 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Paul Berry III | MO-02 | ❓Raised doubts | 81 | 8.5 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Blaine Luetkemeyer* | MO-03 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 86 | 69.7 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Brandon Wilkinson | MO-03 | ❓Raised doubts | 86 | 16.5 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Mark Alford | MO-04 | ❓Raised doubts | 95 | 35.0 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Jacob Turk | MO-05 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 71 | 51.8 | Leading | |||||
| Sam Graves* | MO-06 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 82 | 75.4 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Dakota Shultz | MO-06 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 82 | 6.3 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| John Dady | MO-06 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 82 | 2.4 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Eric Burlison | MO-07 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 84 | 37.8 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Jay Wasson | MO-07 | ❓Raised doubts | 84 | 22.7 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Mike Moon | MO-07 | ❓Raised doubts | 84 | 8.8 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Sam Alexander | MO-07 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 84 | 5.5 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Paul Walker | MO-07 | ❓Raised doubts | 84 | 3.0 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Camille Lombardi-Olive | MO-07 | ❓Raised doubts | 84 | 1.3 | ✗ Lost | |||||
| Jason Smith* | MO-08 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 80 | 82.0 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Leon Lawson | WA Sen. | ❓Raised doubts | 50 | 3.2 | Trailing | |||||
| Tamborine Borrelli | WA SoS | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 45 | 3.8 | Trailing | |||||
| Matthew Heines | WA-01 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 46 | 8.1 | Trailing | |||||
| Cody Hart | WA-02 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 41 | 8.1 | Trailing | |||||
| Carrie R. Kennedy | WA-02 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 41 | 3.0 | Trailing | |||||
| Joe Kent | WA-03 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 20 | 24.8 | Trailing | |||||
| Heidi St. John | WA-03 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 20 | 17.8 | Trailing | |||||
| Vicki Kraft | WA-03 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 20 | 2.4 | Trailing | |||||
| Loren Culp | WA-04 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 48 | 21.7 | Trailing | |||||
| Jerrod Sessler | WA-04 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 48 | 10.9 | Trailing | |||||
| Brad Klippert | WA-04 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 48 | 8.6 | Trailing | |||||
| Corey Gibson | WA-04 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 48 | 3.6 | Trailing | |||||
| Benancio “Benny” Garcia III | WA-04 | ❓Raised doubts | 48 | 1.5 | Trailing | |||||
| Paul Glumaz | WA-07 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 49 | 5.4 | Trailing | |||||
| Jesse Jensen | WA-08 | ❓Raised doubts | 53 | 12.6 | Trailing | |||||
| Scott Stephenson | WA-08 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 53 | 3.2 | Trailing | |||||
| Doug Basler | WA-09 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 45 | 20.7 | Trailing | |||||
| Keith R. Swank | WA-10 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 49 | 33.2 | Trailing | |||||
| Dan Earnest Gordon | WA-10 | ❓Raised doubts | 49 | 6.5 | Trailing | |||||
| Tracey Mann* | KS-01 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 0 | 0.0 | ✓ Won | |||||
| Jake LaTurner* | KS-02 | 🚫 Denied legitimacy | 0 | 0.0 | ✓ Won |
Nathaniel, it’ll be interesting if Wheeless goes down in Arizona’s 6th. She’s the preferred candidate of a lot of power players in Washington, D.C., and got a big boost from several Super PACs throughout the race, including the Ken Griffin-funded Strong Leaders Fund, which spent $440,000, and $800,000 from WFW Action Fund, another GOP establishment outfit with big-name backers.