US Midterm Elections 2022: Trump Backlash Grows

• Republicans kick over former President 2024 ambition

As Ballot counting continues in the American mid-term elections, many commentators say the process may still be a while to determine which party will control the House and Senate.

This is as unfolding events indicate that the Republicans are wrestling with questions about why the elections failed to bring about the “red wave” they expected.

On his part, President Joe Biden continued to applaud his party’s performance with a top White House official insisting the Democrats still have a great chance at winning the House.

However, Virginia’s Republican Lieutenant-Governor, Winsome Sears has distanced herself from another Donald Trump presidency, saying she could not support his decision to run for the White House again.

Sears told Fox Business Network that the former president has become a ‘liability’ for the GOP and her comments are significant considering that she did something last year that Trump hasn’t done in more than six: win an election.

Voters in the Democratic-leaning state elected Sears as the running mate of Glenn Youngkin in his gubernatorial campaign, and she made history as the first woman and first person of color to serve as Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor.

Her comments also underscore the tension among Republicans over Trump’s influence on the party, particularly since many candidates he backed did not fair well in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

A Rundown Of Latest Events As Ballots’ Counting Continues

A newly elected Republican congressman said the Party should “move forward” from Donald Trump as the former president faces pressure to delay announcing his presidential bid after many of his endorsed candidates faltered in the midterms.

The chair of the Texas GOP said the party needs to give voters a positive message if it wants to improve on what is looking to be a lackluster performance in the midterms.

Montana became the latest state where voters said no to further abortion. Voters in Montana rejected a ballot measure that would have declared an embryo or fetus a legal person entitled to medical care if they are “born alive” at any stage of development, including after attempted abortions.

Montana was one of five states with abortion-related ballot measures on Tuesday and was the only one left unresolved. In all five cases, voters moved to protect abortion access, a victory for abortion-rights advocates, even in the conservative state of Kentucky.

Nevada’s razor-thin Senate and governor races may not be known until Saturday, by when most ballots from the Democratic-leaning Clark county will be counted.

An official in Arizona’s Maricopa county asked Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to tone down her rhetoric about the elections.

Inflation declined in October, new government data showed. potentially signaling the beginning of the end of the political perilous wave of price increases

Democrat Tina Kotek emerged winner of the Oregon governor’s race, defeating a Republican candidate in a race that was unusually close in the typically blue western state.

Kotek was the longest serving speaker of the Oregon House speaker, and the GOP candidate, Christine Drazan, was the former leader of the Republicans in the state House. Kotek had 47.1 percent of the vote and Drazan had 43.5 percent.

Kotek, who has made history with her win, joined Maura Healey of Massachusetts as the first lesbian elected governors in the US. and she said of her victory; “It is an absolute honor. I can tell you that being who I am is important to Oregonians across the state. Lots of young people have come up to me and said thank you for running and thank you for being who you are.”