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Trump-aligned challengers ousting GOP legislative incumbents
(AP) — As Wisconsin’s longest-serving Assembly The challenger’s argument: Vos should do more to Republican bills that would have made it harder to
speaker, Republican Robin Vos has presided over respond to former President Donald Trump’s un- vote absentee.
efforts to restrict abortions, weaken unions, expand founded allegations of fraud in the 2020 election.
gun rights and push back against COVID-19 man-
dates. Despite that, he’s facing a primary challenger Primary challengers like the one facing Vos next would have less success than I had,” Vos said.
who claims he’s not conservative enough.
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despues.
sidered the legislation unconstitutional, because it
lacked an exception for youths already undergoing
such treatments.
Vos, who has served as Wisconsin Assembly speaker
since 2013, has taken sharp criticism for not pursu-
ing a resolution decertifying Democrat Joe Biden’s
victory in the state. Trump endorsed his Republi-
can challenger, Adam Steen, saying that “Vos re-
fused to do anything to right the wrongs that were
done” in the 2020 election.
Under pressure from Trump, Vos hired former
state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman
last year to investigate the election. Gableman said
decertifying the election was “a practical impossi-
bility.”
Steen said he decided to challenge Vos because he
failed to pass legislation outlawing absentee ballot
drop boxes ahead of the 2020 election and hasn’t
pushed for tougher consequences for voter fraud,
among other things.
“Conservatism as a whole has been lethargic,”
Steen said. “We lack vision, and I think that vision
is coming back.”
Vos said Steen is running on hyperbole. He said
Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, poses the real ob-
stacle to conservatives. Evers, for example, vetoed
“If we don’t get a Republican governor, (Steen)
Tuesday have been successfully targeting incum-
bent state lawmakers across the country, and Re- Vos is one of nine GOP Wisconsin lawmakers fac-
publicans are taking the brunt of it. ing primaries. Though the challengers face an up-
hill fight, they could push the already conservative
With more than half the state legislative primaries Legislature even further right if they notch a few
concluded, Republican incumbents this year have victories. That would mark a significant shift in a
been losing at nearly twice the average rate of the state that plays a crucial role in national elections.
past decade, according to data compiled for The As-
sociated Press by the election tracking organization Twenty-seven states had held legislative primaries
Ballotpedia. The primary loss rate for Democratic or conventions before Tuesday. In those, at least
state lawmakers is similar to previous elections. 110 Republican incumbents and 33 Democrats
had been defeated. The Republican loss rate of
The Republican losses continued to mount Tues- 7.1% far exceeds the Democratic rate of 2.8%. It
day, as Trump-endorsed candidates ousted incum-
also significantly exceeds the 3.6% average Repub-
bent state senators in Arizona and Michigan and a lican incumbent loss rate over the previous decade
conservative challenger beat the assistant majority in those states, as well as the 4.4% Republican loss
leader of the Missouri Senate. Though not techni- rate in those states during the last redistricting elec-
cally an incumbent, Arizona House Speaker Rusty tion cycle in 2012.
Bowers also lost a bid for state Senate after being
criticized for refusing to help Trump’s efforts to Idaho voters have led the way in ousting Repub-
overturn the 2020 election. lican incumbents, defeating 18 GOP lawmak-
ers — or 30% of those who sought reelection
In many cases, Republican lawmakers are being — even while choosing GOP Gov. Brad Little
defeated by challengers portraying themselves as over a Trump-backed challenger who claimed he
more conservative on election integrity, transgen- wasn’t conservative enough. The losers included
der policies, school instruction and other hot-but- three lawmakers representing Kootenai County in
ton issues. northern Idaho, where a local Republican commit-
tee recommended conservative challengers against
some incumbents after a lengthy vetting process.
“We have a far-right faction that is very dissatisfied
with what’s happening on the left. So if you are not
rabidly a fanatic that just punches every button,
then you’re going to have an issue,” said Arkansas
state Rep. Craig Christiansen, who lost in a Repub-
lican primary earlier this year.
Though Christiansen considers himself “very con-
servative,” he drew multiple challengers and failed
to advance to a runoff. That came after he voted
against overriding Republican Gov. Asa Hutchin-
son’s veto of legislation making Arkansas the first
state banning gender-confirming treatments for
those younger than 18. Christiansen said he con-