Updated at 6 p.m. March 8
Chris Arps, a Republican activist from St. Louis County, was banking on the 2022 election cycle being somewhat mundane an assumption that was thrown out the window Monday when U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt announced he wouldn’t run for a third term.
It’s a move that many Republicans, like Arps, feel will open up a primary that could pit statewide officials, members of Congress and former elected officials against each other.
“This is going to be a full melee in 2022,” Arps said. “2022 was looking like it was going to be a sleepy election. I don’t think so now.”
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The number of unaccompanied migrant children detained along the southern border has tripled in the last two weeks to more than 3,250, filling facilities akin to jails as the Biden administration struggles to find room for them in shelters, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
JEFFERSON CITYÂ â In an announcement that instantly shook Missouri s political landscape, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt said Monday morning he would not run for reelection in 2022. After 14 general election victories â three to county office, seven to the United States House of Representatives and four statewide elections â I won t be a candidate for reelection to the United States Senate next year, Blunt, a Republican first elected to the Senate in 2010, said in a video posted to Twitter.
Blunt, 71, became Missouri s senior U.S. senator in 2019 after incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill was defeated in her 2018 reelection bid by then-Attorney General Josh Hawley.
I think it s here to stay. Trump s grip on Kansas, Missouri Republicans still strong Jonathan Shorman, Jeanne Kuang, and Sarah Ritter, The Kansas City Star
Feb. 21 TOPEKA On Jan. 6, Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran voted to certify the presidential election results in a Senate chamber that had just been ransacked by a violent mob hunting for politicians perceived as disloyal to President Donald Trump.
Moran had defended Trump s right to fight the outcome in court. But ultimately, he said, he was bound by the Constitution.
That wasn t enough for the Republicans of Clay County.
A resolution of censure, posted by the Clay County Republican Party to Facebook on Feb. 5, said Moran had caused great harm to the citizens of the county, to Kansas, and to the United States by not objecting to electoral votes from several key states won by President Joe Biden. The party said the resolution passed the county s central committee with overwhelming support but didn t provide a
Network Ireland Wicklow has teamed up with Purple House Cancer Support naming it as their official charity partner for the 2021 term.
Purple House Cancer Support is at the forefront in providing a range of professional support services to people of all ages affected by Cancer. Through the work of their Cancer Support Centre in Bray, they support families through Counselling, play therapy, support groups, hospital transport, classes and a wide range of practical support services.
Network Ireland Wicklow 2021 President, Jean Evans said: We all have family members and friends who have been affected by cancer either directly or indirectly. With Covid-19 the importance of supporting not only the patients but also their family members is even more essential to help them cope with the worry and anxiety associated with the diagnosis.