Monday, November 21, 2022

Politics: 2022 Missouri Senate Election Results

I really shouldn’t be up this late and don’t have much time for this post. But I am still forcing myself to do it as a person sadly does to themselves at times. Here’s what I know. There was an election for senate in Missouri earlier this year. It didn’t go well.

 

There were a lot of candidates in the race on the Republican side. A lot of them were terrible and only one of them could win the nomination. Even the insurrectionist couldn’t figure out who to support so just blindly said Eric. Their terrible former governor, Eric Greitens, did not win the nomination. Neither of the sedition caucus members who were running, Billy Long or Vicky Hartlers, win the nomintation either. And enteral Karen Mark McCoskey didn’t win.

 

But it was a terrible person who did win. Eric Scmitt, the state’s attorney general, was the most likely of these people to win the nomination and thus the election. He sued to get rid of universal health care coverage during a pandemic. Having no clue of the concept of forum non convines, he has sued China over the pandemic, different states other their handling of the 2020 election, and tried to claim authority over the border with Mexico. He has the legal authority over none of these things or places.

 

You’d think that his opponent, Democrat Trudy Busch Valentine, would mention things like this in the ads in the election. But she didn’t. And the Democratic side of the election was sadly very weak in the end. Lucas Knuce was her major competition in the primary with the best candidate, Scott Stifton, having inexplictedly dropped out before the primary. She instead aired ads that were fact checked as false, not calling out his lies, and even thinking that attacking him as too conservative would fail to get him elected. Plus, how easy do you think that it would be to just say, this guy sought to get rid of universal health care coverage during a pandemic, and not get some support doing that. Sadly, Eric will make me wish that Roy Blunt had stuck around.

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