Mandela Barnes effectively won the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Sen.
It’s also considered a safe Democratic seat. Betty McCollum, who represents Minnesota’s neighboring Fourth District, successfully defended her progressive record against Amane Badhasso, who came to the US as a refugee from Ethiopia and sought to portray herself as a new generation of progressive. Clearly, Samuels’s message resonated in the district, and his near-win will likely encourage future challenges to Omar. Omar, a proponent of the progressive movement to “defund the police,” had supported the proposal. He helped defeat a proposed ballot measure to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new Department of Public Safety after a then-city police officer murdered George Floyd in May 2020. Samuels, a former Minneapolis City Council member, promised to be a more moderate representative, and ran heavily on public safety. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Ilhan Omar (D-MN) attends a July rally in support of abortion access at the US Capitol. She faced a similar challenge in 2020 and won by a nearly 20 percentage point margin. Ilhan Omar narrowly fended off a challenger from her right, Don Samuels, leading by just over 2 percentage points as of Tuesday night. In Minnesota’s Fifth District, which is also rated “ solid Democrat,” progressive Squad member Rep. Leahy, the first, has served since 1975 the state’s other senator, Sanders, caucuses with the Democrats but is an independent. He’s also heading into November as the clear favorite and would be only the second Democrat ever elected to the US Senate from Vermont. Niki Thran and Isaac Evans-Franz, never came within striking distance. Peter Welch, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who was also backed by Sanders, cleared the field early in his bid to replace Leahy in the Senate after 15 years serving as Vermont’s only House member. Patrick Leahy - and was portrayed by Balint as a “ corporatist and a catastrophe for the left.” The seat is rated “solid Democrat” by the Cook Political Report, meaning that Balint will likely become the first woman and first openly gay person to represent Vermont in Congress. Madeline Kunin and Howard Dean as well as retiring Sen. Gray has earned endorsements from moderates - including former Govs. Molly Gray in the state’s first wide-open US House race since 2006.
Bernie Sanders and a slate of other progressive leaders, prevailed over Lt.
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Vermont Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, who was backed by Sen. In most cases, all the progressives who won their races did so in deep-blue territory and are widely expected to go on to win their seats. It was a surprising turn of events given the advantage incumbents typically enjoy. Ilhan Omar had a close primary, however, just eking out a win. Progressives cruised to victory in their primaries in Vermont and Wisconsin in Minnesota, Squad member Rep. Here are three winners and one loser from the day’s races. Still, just one day after the FBI raided Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago, the former president’s influence over the party remained certain, with successful endorsements in both states - and a concession by an incumbent Republican who voted to impeach him.
Meanwhile, Republicans in Wisconsin and Connecticut split between supporting establishment-backed candidates and Trump-boosted challengers to take on Democratic incumbents in the governor’s office (Wisconsin) and the US Senate (Connecticut). In Vermont, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, progressives had a solid night, either clearing the field before primary day or beating back challengers.
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