Midterm Elections Round-Up, 11.21.22 - MSNBC

Today’s installment of campaign-related quality items from crossed the country.

* In a triumph for voting rights advocates, a authorities justice ruled precocious past week that Georgia instrumentality allows Saturday voting earlier the U.S. Senate runoff election. Republican authorities officials soon aft announced plans to entreaty the ruling.

* On a related note, Barack Obama campaigned for Georgia Democrats earlier the midterm elections, and present the erstwhile president is poised to bash it again: The Associated Press reported that Obama has scheduled a Dec. 1 lawsuit successful Georgia, hoping to springiness incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock a boost. Dec. 1, the AP noted, is the last time of aboriginal in-person voting.

* As for Warnock’s opponent, Herschel Walker campaigned alongside Gov. Brian Kemp implicit the weekend. It was the first-ever associated quality for the 2 Georgia Republicans.

* And speaking of unresolved Senate races, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski has inched into the lead successful Alaska acknowledgment to the state’s ranked-choice voting system.

* Why are Democrats disappointed that Sen. Rick Scott volition nary longer seat the National Republican Senatorial Committee? Because his successor, Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, said past week that 1 of the changes helium intends to instrumentality is focusing connected candidates “that tin triumph a wide election.”

* Former Ambassador Nikki Haley vowed past twelvemonth not to tally for president successful 2024 if Donald Trump launched a run of his own. Now that the erstwhile president is, successful fact, trying again, the South Carolina Republican has seemingly changed her mind, confirming implicit the weekend, “Now that the midterms are over, I’ll look astatine [the 2024 race] successful a superior way.”

* As for Sen. Ted Cruz’s aboriginal plans, the Texas Republican confirmed that helium plans to question a 3rd word successful 2024, adjacent arsenic helium weighs different White House campaign.

* Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke hasn’t yet been sworn successful arsenic Montana’s newest congressman, but he’s already leaving the doorway open to a imaginable Senate run successful 2024. Despite a bid of ethics scandals, Zinke narrowly won his U.S. House bid 2 weeks ago.