{"id":106956,"date":"2020-11-04T16:09:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106956"},"modified":"2020-11-05T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:29:47","slug":"how-did-veteran-candidates-fair-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106956","title":{"rendered":"How did veteran candidates fare yesterday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/voted.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-100670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/voted-454x333.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/voted-454x333.png 454w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/voted-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/voted.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/10\/21\/here-are-the-181-veterans-running-for-congress-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Military Times<\/a>, there were 182 vets running for Congress this year across the US. That&#8217;s an increase from last cycle&#8217;s 173. I can&#8217;t go through the list one by one, but here are the results of some of the higher profile contests. Results are as of the time of writing this, mid-afternoon on Nov 4.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alek Skarlatos<\/a> (R) &#8211; Lost to incumbent Peter DeFazio (D-OR) 46.3% to 51.6% with\u00a0 84% precincts reporting.\n<ul>\n<li>While I&#8217;m on Oregon, the state also voted to decriminalize possession of small amounts of hard drugs and legalized the therapeutic use of magic mushrooms. In the closely watched Portland, OR mayoral race, incumbent Ted Wheeler (D) was reelected over Sarah Iannarone (Communist I assume).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal &#8220;Jody&#8221; Cunningham<\/a> (D) from North Carolina appears to have lost in his bid to oust Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC). 93% of precincts are reporting, with Tillis up 48.7% to Cunningham&#8217;s 46.9%.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dan Crenshaw<\/a> (R-TX) has comfortably won a second term to the US House with 56.1% of the vote against his Democrat opponent&#8217;s 42.3%. 100% of precincts are reporting.<\/li>\n<li>Gil Cisneros (D-CA), Navy vet who won $266M in the lottery, seems to have lost to his Republican challenger and will not serve a second term. 88% reporting and Cisneros is at 49.8% to his Republican opponent&#8217;s 50.2%.<\/li>\n<li>Lindsey Graham (R-SC) fended off a challenger (who spent more than $100M on his losing race) to remain in the Senate. With 91% reporting, Graham has an insurmountable lead of 54.8% to 43.9%.<\/li>\n<li>In the case of the dueling fighter pilots, Arizona&#8217;s sitting Senator, Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martha McSally<\/a> lost to Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Kelly<\/a>. Both have impressive resumes. McSally was the first US fighter pilot to fly in combat and retired from the Air Force as a colonel. Kelly retired from the Navy as a captain and had spent the latter half of his career as a NASA astronaut. He spent 54 days in total in space, and flew four Space Shuttle missions (commanding the final two). Kelly is married to retired Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) who was shot in 2011. With 83% of precincts reporting, Kelly has 52.6% to McSally&#8217;s 47.4%.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sean Parnell<\/a> (R) won over incumbent Conor Lamb (D-PA) 53.6% to 46.4% with 94% reporting.<\/li>\n<li>Doug Collins (R) is coming in third in the Georgia Senate contest behind Raphael Warnock (D) with 32.1% and Kelly Loeffler (R) with 26.3%. This race will go to a runoff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll add some more later and more results come in.<\/p>\n<p>***Updates***<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Paulina Luna (R) &#8211; The Air Force vet running to unseat Congressman Charlie Crist (D-FL) has lost her race 47% to 53% with 100% reporting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) won reelection, soundly defeating his opponent by 64% to 34% with 100% reporting.\u00a0<em>*Tip o&#8217;the hat to Skyjumper*<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Military Times, there were 182 vets running for Congress this year across the US. &hellip; <a title=\"How did veteran candidates fare yesterday?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106956\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How did veteran candidates fare yesterday?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,5,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-politics","category-veterans-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106967,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106956\/revisions\/106967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}