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Candidates who have the support of former President Donald Trump continue to impose, Tuesday in several races of the Republican Party primaries, in a new sign of the influence Trump still has.
In Wisconsin, one of the key states that can fall on either the Democratic or Republican side in an election, Trump’s candidate for governor, Tim Michels, prevailed over the Republican apparatus’ favored candidate, Rebecca Kleefisch.
Michels, a construction businessman, will therefore face that state’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers, in the November elections.
Meanwhile, in Connecticut, Themis Klarides, supported by major figures of her party and by former Vice President Mike Pence to be the conservative candidate for the Senate, lost against Trump’s favorite, Leora Levy, of Cuban roots.
In addition, this Tuesday also ended the scrutiny of other primaries held last week in the state of Washington (northwest), in which the Republican representative, but against Trump, Jaime Herrera Beutler, lost by a narrow margin against the Trumpist aspirant Joe Kent.
Herrera Beutler, who currently holds a GOP seat but will no longer be able to repeat in office, was one of 10 Republican congressmen who voted in favor of impeaching the former president following Jan. 6 assault on Capitol Hill.
Of the 10 Republican representatives who voted against Trump in 2021, only two will be up for re-election, pending the fate of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who polls place behind a Trump-backed challenger in next week’s primary.
