Tackling inflation and high prices are among the most popular positions and qualities a 2022 candidate can have. Among the least popular: wanting Roe overturned, being endorsed by either Biden or Trump, and believing Trump won in 2020. (NBC News) Details: https://t.co/I3RnmwNHgx pic.twitter.com/Qou8qLtz81
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) May 20, 2022
Category: 2022 elections
Republicans focus on state courts since they did poorly in redistricting
NEW from me:
— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) April 11, 2022
A 3-part deep-dive on state supreme courts, an highly consequential legal arena & red-hot political battleground. The growing power of state courts has spurred tens of millions of dollars in campaign spending — and heated political attacks: https://t.co/nDBLIXISFy
Stung by redistricting rulings, Republicans target state court elections https://t.co/i8PN3py9km pic.twitter.com/CAdpA9LtGV
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 11, 2022
Pennsylvania Republican is upset the state Supreme Court wouldn’t let them keep their gerrymandered districts so now he’s trying to impeach five of the judges https://t.co/JnHakPNUIH
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 20, 2018
Tweets on state Supreme Court elections
Good @boltsmag article on 2022's state Supreme Court elections, which could lead to courts that green-light Republican gerrymanders in NC and OH later this decade. https://t.co/SSMDd5UVGZ
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) March 24, 2022
State supreme court elections attracted more money in the 2019-20 cycle — including more spending by special interests — than any judicial election cycle in history, according to a new report by the @BrennanCenter, using OpenSecrets data. https://t.co/Hc99iUvCM3 pic.twitter.com/R8Lu3pWAKK
— OpenSecrets.org (@OpenSecretsDC) January 25, 2022
Courts have handed Democrats some of their biggest victories of the redistricting cycle, but between upcoming state judicial elections and an increasingly conservative Supreme Court, they shouldn’t get too comfortable.
— Cook Political Report (@CookPolitical) March 9, 2022
NEW by @Redistrict: https://t.co/DMEqQqAe4m
Youngkin is already losing popularity
He didn’t run as a MAGA extremist but Virginia is finding out that is what he is.
New Youngkin poll: More Virginians disapprove of new governor than approve – The Washington Post https://t.co/h1DHkUo21d
— Greg Schneider (@SchneiderG) February 21, 2022
This Virginia poll is disastrous for all the hot takes on Glenn Youngkin and CRT…
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) February 21, 2022
Youngkin approval: 41%
Youngkin disapproval: 43%
Teach how racism impacts society:
Support: 63%
Oppose: 33%
Ban on Critical Race Theory:
Oppose: 57%
Support: 35% https://t.co/HRjsrtSs7o
Good morning. We have some history being made today.
— L. Louise Lucas (@SenLouiseLucas) February 21, 2022
Glenn Youngkin is the first Virginia Governor to ever poll with a majority disapproval rating anytime in his first year in office. He did it in just over a month!
Pass it on so we all recognize his historic accomplishment.
Glenn Youngkin Goes Full MAGA | Washington Monthly https://t.co/7NsF1X9rCn
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) February 19, 2022
The two sides of Youngkin: Virginia’s new governor calls for unity but keeps stoking volatile issues
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 13, 2022
https://t.co/2xr8qdWIkQ
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin distanced himself Monday from a tweet mocking a teenager that went out Saturday on his campaign account, calling it “unauthorized,” but the teen has said he has not had an apology from the governor or his staff. https://t.co/5lnzqeUU3C
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 7, 2022
CNN poll on issues important for Congressional vote
CNN POLL
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 11, 2022
Issue is Extremely Important
To Congressional Vote
Economy 59%
Inflation 55%
Voting rights 55%
Taxes 49%
Education 46%
Health care 44%
Crime 43%
Gun policy 41%
Immigration 39%
Coronavirus 38%
Climate 30%
Youngkin is just another right-wing extremist
That’s what Republicans are now. Any voter thinking he was a moderate was naive.
Cheerful suburban dad Glenn Youngkin convinced many Virginia parents that their children were under threat of CRT indoctrination.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 12, 2022
Now Republicans in the state plan to:
* cancel minimum wage hike
* require voter ID
* cut early voting
* expand open carryhttps://t.co/kS60KSsG3v pic.twitter.com/R8vH5wCOFv
New: 150+ ex-Environmental Protection Agency employees are uging the Virginia Senate to oppose the nomination of former EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler to GOP Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s cabinet. They wrote to senators in a letter first shared with @AP. https://t.co/FymjMcY2za
— Sarah Rankin (@sarah_rankin) January 14, 2022
I've been told incoming AG @JasonMiyaresVA just FIRED the entire civil rights division in the Attorney General's office. My bill helped create and expand the authority that this division uses.
— L. Louise Lucas (@SenLouiseLucas) January 14, 2022
Bold of Glenn Youngkin to choose someone who believed (in 2019) that “both sides of the Holocaust” need to be taught. Among other Islamophobic and reprehensible comments. https://t.co/nbV0ZhCtlY https://t.co/78ycTfnj7n
— Andrew Millin (@ajm0614) January 13, 2022
.@MaddowBlog: Glenn Youngkin campaigned that Virginians need not fear Republican governance in Virginia. Those assumptions are due for a reevaluation. https://t.co/MeDvHpkLlU
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 12, 2022
To repeat, the mainstream media treatment of Youngkin, a clever campaigner appealing to the Trumpists but really a moderate or mainstreamer, was ridiculous. He is a radical Trumpist, picking radical Trumpists for key positions. https://t.co/82QXqy2F4t
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) January 10, 2022
I tried warn people about this during the campaign. #Youngkin telegraphed this early on. He said, if you elected him, you were electing “a whole new crop of Republicans along with me.” That was code for Trumpers.
— Tara Setmayer (@TaraSetmayer) January 13, 2022
Should’ve been used against him, repeatedly.
Sigh. https://t.co/e0qhH6Km9c pic.twitter.com/JsVL5hWhhz
Youngkin is telling everyone that he plans to challenge vaccine mandates. @UVA just moved the booster deadline up to Jan.14th, one day before he takes office. Well played. pic.twitter.com/rZyxDKHopx
— zyahna bryant. (@ZyahnaB) January 7, 2022
Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has named a respected physician who opposes blanket vaccine mandates and downplayed the threat of the coronavirus to children as his lead adviser on pandemic response https://t.co/KGHSFxYtxB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 15, 2022
Youngkin has said he will work for all Virginians, but also made clear he believes he has a conservative mandate
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 17, 2022
https://t.co/70AFYpU6aS
Full DeSantis/Abbott right out of the gate. https://t.co/zl5lfbTo0r
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) January 17, 2022
Republicans may win the House majority through gerrymandering
"Republicans could pick up anywhere from six to 13 seats in the House of Representatives—enough to retake the House in 2022—through its control of the redistricting process in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Texas alone" https://t.co/WZ3v3SlW5U
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) July 29, 2021
"Some 70 percent of the seats that flipped in 2018 were drawn by courts or commissions…Democrats owe their current slender five-seat majority in the US House entirely to state court decisions that overturned GOP maps in Pennsylvania and North Carolina." https://t.co/POb4C0XAoE
— Lee Drutman (@leedrutman) July 26, 2021
Or, in plain language: Democrats are significantly more popular than Republicans and will likely win millions more votes, but could nonetheless lose the House in 2022 because Republicans have used gerrymandering to effectively rig elections in their favor. https://t.co/gATpZW9EjF
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) July 27, 2021