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Anti-Trump GOP voters mostly loyal in 2022, but not entirely

Continued from Front competitive races for Sen- to do what’s right. About
ate and governor where two-thirds of them say they
Still, the extensive national far-right candidates were voted to show opposition
survey finds these Repub- on the ballot, including as to Biden.
licans made up a larger many as 13% of Repub- “They’re where I am ...
percentage of those who licans in Arizona, 16% in what choice do we have?”
opted not to support a Colorado and 18% in Penn- said GOP strategist Rick
candidate in House races. sylvania, and 11% in Michi- Tyler. “There are many in
A sliver of them showed gan. the Republican Party who
their opposition to Trump The Lincoln Project, a would love to not vote Re-
for a second time, back- conservative group that publican, but they can’t
ing Democrat Joe Biden for staunchly opposes Trump, vote Democrat because
president in 2020 and Dem- has targeted this vot- they don’t believe in where
ocratic House candidates ing bloc in elections. Co- Democrats want to take
in 2022. founder Rick Wilson said it’s the country.”
In a political climate where Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., speaks during a House a “narrow pathway, but a In November, then-state
competitive elections are Committee on Natural Resources hearing on America’s Energy meaningful one” to elect- Sen. Jen Kiggans defeated
nationalized and decided and Mineral potential, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, on Capitol Hill ing pro-democracy, anti- two-term Democratic Rep.
by narrow margins, neither in Washington. Associated Press extremist candidates, one Elaine Luria in a district cen-
party can take these voters that he thinks has expand- tered in Virginia Beach, Vir-
for granted. in a 2024 campaign. Most to do that in 2022. ed since 2020 because of ginia, just two years after
Democrat Adam Frisch of those who don’t identify In Ohio and Georgia, for ex- the Supreme Court’s de- a Democratic presidential
said he knew there was with the movement don’t ample, the two governors cision to overturn Roe v. candidate carried the city
a “fairly unique” opening seem to find that compel- outperformed Republican Wade. for the first time since 1964.
for a more conservative ling. Voters who do may candidates for Senate who Still, partisanship can be Kiggans overcame the self-
Democrat to connect with be eager to revert to a Re- were endorsed by Trump. “sticky,” Wilson said, and proclaimed “MAGA can-
Colorado voters who did publican candidate who DeWine earned nearly traditional Republicans val- didate” in the Republican
not like Boebert’s aggres- represents their traditional 390,000 votes more than JD ue checks and balances in primary, and campaign
sive political style. conservative values. Vance, who won an open Washington, driving disaf- operatives pointed to Kig-
“I spent most of my time Republican strategist Alex seat, and Kemp received fected conservative voters gans as a “disciplined”
trying to convince people I Conant suggested GOP 200,000-plus more votes in to support Republicans as candidate focused on
was a safe enough choice, candidates cannot count the general election than an offset to Democrats. kitchen table issues.
not just to leave the bal- on these voters so long as did Herschel Walker, who VoteCast shows most Re- Her message also tied Luria
lot blank ... but actually Trump is involved in politics. failed to unseat a Demo- publicans voted for Repub- to Biden and then-House
vote for a non-Republican But 2024 can be different. cratic incumbent in a later licans, even if they did so Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-
for the first time ever or in “There’s no reason that runoff. with reservations. Calif., as Luria herself cam-
a really long time,” said the Republican nominee According to VoteCast, Republicans who don’t paigned on her role on the
Frisch, who has already an- in 2024 can’t put together 10% of Republican vot- identify with the MAGA House committee investi-
nounced he will run again a coalition that includes ers who don’t identify as movement and decided gating the Jan. 6, 2021, in-
in 2024. Trump’s base and moder- “MAGA Republicans” vot- to back Republican can- surrection at the U.S. Capi-
The findings suggest Dem- ate Republicans and inde- ed for Democratic House didates mostly say they tol and called Kiggans an
ocrats, too, may need to pendents,” he said. candidates nationwide, didn’t consider Trump, election denier. Kiggans
be wary of the messaging Conant and others pointed compared with 2% of those good or bad, when they shied away from explic-
against “MAGA Republi- to examples of Republican who embrace that label. voted. Only about half are itly repeating Trump’s false
cans,” whom Biden ham- governors — Ron DeSan- Overall, 4% of Republicans positive in ratings of Trump claims that the 2020 presi-
mered repeatedly before tis in Florida, Mike DeWine backed Democratic can- himself, but most are favor- dential election was stolen,
the November elections in Ohio and Brian Kemp in didates. able toward the party and but she refused to publicly
and is poised to do again Georgia — who were able That percentage swelled in say the GOP tends to try reject them. q

Scientists: Hawaii’s Kilauea not

erupting, reversing warning

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s warning.” December, Hawaii’s big-
second-largest volcano is The agency previously said gest volcano, Mauna Loa,
not erupting, scientists said a shallow earthquake storm also was erupting on Ha-
in an update to a previous signaled “resumption of waii’s Big Island.
warning. eruptive activity at Kilauea The dual eruptions of Ha-
The U.S. Geological Survey summit is likely imminent.” waii’s biggest volcanos
said in a statement late Scientists said Tuesday that provided a temporary
Saturday that seismic ac- lava had stopped flowing boost to tourism during the
tivity beneath the summit after 61 days of volcanic slow season.
of Kilauea “has returned to activity. Volcanic eruptions have
background levels, ground Kilauea, one of the world’s deep spiritual and cultural
deformation has stabilized, most active volcanos, significance for Native Ha- This photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the
and no lava has been ob- erupted from September waiians. When Mauna Loa inside of the summit crater of the Kilauea Volcano, Jan. 6, 2023.
served at the surface.” 2021 to last December. A started erupting in Novem- Associated Press
The statement cautioned 2018 Kilauea eruption de- ber after lying dormant
“another intrusion or re- stroyed more than 700 resi- for 38 years, many Hawai- chanting and dancing to leaving offerings known as
sumption may occur in the dences. ians took part in cultural honor Pele, the deity of “hookupu.”q
near future with little or no For about two weeks last traditions such as singing, volcanoes and fire, and