Politics: 2020 Attorney General Election Results

I have an important post to cover in this blog, but I will not be doing that today. I hope to have that covered next before the year is over. I’ll be scheduling a lot of posts for different blogs to cover the rest of this year and one for New Year’s Day as well. Now I decided that it would be fast and easiest to write this post now. I will cover other results of races from this year later while covering some of next year’s elections and other things that I feel work well in this blog.

Now I do need to cover more in general the attorney generals that are related to the case that relates to Obamacare called California versus Texas. (Speaking of that, when are we going to learn the results of that case? I mean, it has had its only day in court so when are going to hear what the results are? Shouldn’t we know already?) Now I will split some of them into two groups and a picture in a later post should explain more. The ones that I call good are the orange ones. Of all of them that ran for reelection (which was all of them), note that the orange ones advance and will stay around until 2025.

Starting at the beginning, let’s start with the state of North Carolina. The race was between the incumbent Democrat Josh Stein and the Republican challenger Jim O’Neill. Josh won reelection and will continue to serve as a result. Let’s next get to the state of Washington. The race there was between incumbent Democrat Bob Ferguson and the Republican challenger Matt Larkin. Bob won reelection. In the state of Oregon, the race was between incumbent Democrat Ellen Rosenblum and the Republican challenger Michael Cross. Ellen won reelection. The last state in this grouping to mention is Vermont. The race there was between the incumbent Democrat T.J. Donovan and the Republican challenger H Brooke Paige. T.J. won reelection.

As for the states with attorney generals that are against Obamacare that ran for reelection, the ones that I’m calling the green ones, they also all won their elections and won’t be up again until 2024. I’m already counting down the days.

Let’s start with the state of Missouri. While Eric Schmitt wasn’t elected to this office before, he did win this office by winning reelection. This Republican won against Democratic challenger Richard Finneran. In the state of Utah, Republican incumbent Sean D Reyes won against the Democratic challenger, Greg Skordas. In West Virginia, Republican incumbent Patrick Morrisey won against the Democratic challenger, Sam Petsonk.

Now there was one of the green ones that will be leaving office. His name is Curtis Hill and he will be leaving office on January 11, 2021. He never had to face the voters of Indiana as after a scandal left him without a law license for a month, he wasn’t nominated to another term. Instead of him, the Republican party of the state (not the voters) chose Todd Rokita to be their nominee and he won against Democrat Jonathan Weinzapfel.

As for the only two states that had this office up for election this year, I might as well cover both of them before I get to the end of this post. In Montana, the incumbent Republican, Tim Fox, did not run for reelection. The race was instead between Republican Austin Knudsen and Democrat Raph Graybill. Austin won the election. The last state was Pennsylvania. The incumbent office holder, Democrat Josh Shapiro, beat the Republican challenger, Heather Heidelbaugh. 

That’s all that I need to cover for this post. I hope that you found it helpful and I will do a better job explaining the green ones versus the orange ones in the next post including the graphic that will make it all make sense to you. So stay tuned. There is more to talk about regarding a lot of the attorney generals in this country.