(ANSA) – WASHINGTON, JUN 07 – New round of primaries in the US in view of the Midterm elections in November, when a third of the Senate and the entire Chamber will be renewed, but mayors, prosecutors and governors will also be chosen. Seven states are voting (California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota) even if all eyes are on the Golden State.
Here the ballot boxes are a test for the DEMs on their policies (so far ineffective) against growing crime and for the Republicans on the eligibility of those who are not aligned with Donald Trump. An important test will be the dem challenge for the mayor of Los Angeles: on the one hand the liberal candidate Karen Bass, who focuses on social interventions to prevent violence, on the other the billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso, a former republican supported by Elon Musk who wants to act against crime and the homeless phenomenon.
Still on the subject of the fight against crime, the orientation of the electorate will also be understood by the ‘recall’ in San Franciso and Los Angeles to revoke two prosecutors considered too lenient, Chesa Boudin and George Gascon. On the republican front, the focus is on what will happen in Orange County, where outgoing MP Young Kim, first American-Korean in Congress and considered one of the new faces of the party, will be challenged from the right by former top gun Greg. Raths, a Trump fanatic accused of anti-Semitic comments.
A similar test for outgoing MP David Valado, one of the 10 Republicans who voted for the impeachment of the former president: the tycon did not give the endoresment to his challenger Chris Mathys, who however campaigned by aligning himself with Trump.
Other Republican primaries include those in Iowa of Senator Chuck Grassley, who at 88 is looking for his eighth term, and in South Dakota those of outgoing governor Kristi Noem, a possible presidential candidate in 2024.
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Source: Ansa
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