New Hampshire, Rhode Island primary election results and news for 2022 midterms

Karoline Leavitt, a New Hampshire native, has won the Republican nomination to represent the Granite State’s First Congressional District in the House.

Leavitt defeated her leading primary challenger Matt Mowers and will now face off against incumbent Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, who ran unopposed, in the state’s general election on November 8.

The race was called by The Associated Press.

Don Bolduc, Republican candidate for Senate in New Hampshire, speaks to reporters Tuesday night. (Fox News)

Retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc, who is seeking to defeat his Republican primary challengers and advance to the state's November general election to face off against incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, told Fox News he is feeling "really great" as results from the state's primary election pour in.

Bolduc, speaking from a private room at the Old Salt in Hampton, said he likes what he sees from the early results rolling in, noting that the "establishment" areas are reporting early. He also said his prediction is that he will see a bump once the rural areas come in and that he is confident he's going to win.

Fox News' Hillary Vaughn contributed to this update.

President Biden speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, June 16, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

A top House Republican is blasting President Joe Biden for celebrating the passage of the Democrat-backed social spending and taxation bill, officially known as the Inflation Reduction Act, amid the Tuesday uptick in the already high inflation rate plaguing the country and a resulting massive drop in the stock market.

In an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital, Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., who also serves as the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, railed against Biden for the White House celebration, which took place Tuesday afternoon despite the dismal report showing that the consumer price index rose 8.3% in August from a year ago. 

"Joe Biden is the most out-of-touch president of my lifetime. He looks like a fool celebrating his reckless spending spree while prices continue to rise and the stock market is tanking," Emmer said.

Read more from Fox News' Brandon Gillespie here.

Ashley Kalus has won the Republican nomination to serve as governor of Rhode Island.

Kalus' Democratic challenger for the November general election has yet to be determined. Two independent candidates and one libertarian candidate have already advanced to the general election.

The race was called by The Associated Press.

President Biden told reporters that he was flying to his home state of Delaware Tuesday evening to vote in the state's election.

Biden's reasoning for the trip to and from his home state on Tuesday, according to CBS News' Steven Portnoy, was not disclosed ahead of his departure.

Asked by an ABC News reporter why he didn't vote absentee in the state's primary, Portnoy said Biden "smiled and turned to climb aboard Air Force One."

Delaware does not have any elections this year for governor or U.S. Senate, but the statewide auditor’s race is grabbing attention.

Democratic incumbent Kathy McGuiness — who was convicted this summer of official misconduct and conflict of interest — is being challenged by lawyer and accountant Lydia York.

Delaware Gov. John Carney is expected to remove McGuiness from office once she’s sentenced — which is expected in the coming weeks. But there’s the possibility McGuiness wins Tuesday’s primary and then November’s general election and retakes her office in January.

Fox News' Paul Steinhauser contributed to this update.

Incumbent Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has easily won his party's gubernatorial nomination and will advance to the November general election.

He faced no serious challenge, and will now go up against Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tom Sherman, who ran unopposed.

The Associated Press called the race.

Incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan has easily won her party's Senate nomination and will advance to the November general election.

Hassan had no serious challenge in the primary race, and will likely face one of two Republicans, Donald Bolduc or Chuck Morse, depending on who wins the GOP primary.

Fox News' Power Rankings rates the race as a "tossup."

The Associated Press called the race.

Malia Cohen speaks at the 2020 San Francisco Women's March on January 18, 2020. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

A Democrat running for election to serve as California state controller, the state's independent fiscal watchdog, traveled to Venezuela in 2006 to learn about Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution.

Malia Cohen, a Democrat running for the position who has received praise from Democratic leadership, currently serves as a member of the California State Board of Equalization and made the 10-day trip to the socialist country for $1,250.

Cohen's trip to the country was documented in a CNN story about the group's tour, with Cohen claiming that "revolutionary thought" is "generational" as it showed an image of her gazing at a mural featuring a quote from Venezuelan leader Simon Bolivar that roughly translates to: "The health of a Republic depends on the morality acquired by education of citizens in childhood.…"

"The revolutionary thought and mindset is generational," Cohen told the outlet at the time. "What we see in the United States, and you really don't see grandparents and parents and even young as active politically."

Read more: Dem seeking to serve as California's next financial watchdog took 2006 trip to study socialism in Venezuela

After battling all summer long over the debate schedule in Georgia’s high-profile and crucial Senate showdown, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker will face off on stage together next month.

Warnock on Tuesday officially committed to take part in a debate in Savannah, Georgia on Oct. 14 that Walker had already agreed to attend.

The debate, proposed by Nexstar Media Group, will on Fox 5 Atlanta and other local TV stations across Georgia and in neighboring states.

WRBL in Georgia announced the agreement by Warnock and the senator's re-election campaign confirmed the development to Fox News.

Three months ago, Warnock committed to attending an Oct. 16 debate hosted by the Atlanta Press Club, as well as two others later in October that are scheduled to be held in Macon and Savannah. Warnock’s campaign criticized Walker for not agreeing to take part in those three debates.

A month ago, Walker announced in an interview on Fox News’ "Hannity" that he had agreed to take part the Oct. 14 debate in Savannah in front of a live audience.

Warnock’s campaign is still urging Walker, a former college and pro football star, to debate a second time.

Warnock, the senior pastor at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, defeated GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler by a razor-thin margin to capture the seat in January 2021 runoff election, prompting Republicans to see his seat as very vulnerable in his re-election bid for a full six-year term. The race in the key general election battleground state of Georgia is one of a handful across the country that may determine if the GOP wins back the Senate majority in November’s midterms.

Democrats in North Carolina are far outpacing Republicans in the number of absentee ballot requests being submitted just eight weeks from the November midterm elections. 

According to the state's absentee ballot request report Tuesday, a total of 66,311 absentee ballots have been requested, with Democrats making up the vast majority of that number at 53% of the total, or 35,303 ballots. Republicans have requested just 8,907, or 13%.

Those unaffiliated with any party have requested 21,917, Libertarians have requested 181, and members of the Green Party have requested just 3.

Read more from Fox News' Brandon Gillespie here.

The Senate Majority PAC and VoteVets released a 30-second midterm ad that blasts pro-life candidate Blake Masters, describing him as extreme and "unAmerican." The ad, obtained first by NBC News, is reportedly part of a $2.3 million statewide ad buy from the two groups.

Masters, the candidate backed by former President Donald Trump in the Arizona Senate race against Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., has been open about his pro-life views throughout his campaign.

The new ad showed a female veteran saying, "It’s offensive, to see someone like Blake Masters talking about taking away our rights."

The advertisement then focuses on a video of Masters where he says "absolutely no abortions."

The woman continued, "That kind of extremism and government control is the opposite of what we fought for. It’s un-American."

Abortion has been a rising midterm issue following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and return the power to the states to place restrictions on abortion.

Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman said at one point during his political career that he holds a "Black Lives Matter kind of worldview" and appeared to insist that crime rates in major cities are tied to how much they "don't embrace" the movement, calling the notion "common sense."

Fetterman's remarks, offered during an interview with The Pitt News in August 2016, came during his tenure as Braddock mayor after he failed to garner his party's nomination for the Senate earlier that year.

Lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman addresses supporters during a rally on Aug. 12, 2022, in Erie, Pennsylvania. (DUSTIN FRANZ/AFP via Getty Images)

"Let me take issue with the anti-establishment," Fetterman said. "I never positioned myself as anti-establishment. In fact, I was the only elected official in my race, I point out. Katie McGinty never held elected office and [Joe] Sestak’s only elected office was a term, I believe, in Congress before he started running. So this idea that I was anti-establishment – I just ran on what I felt were important, common sense issues whether that was a living wage, marijuana legalization, a Black Lives Matter kind of worldview, but also a community policing."

Fetterman, who said at the time that he did not consider his position on various issues to be "radical," claimed it's "common sense" that cities that "don't embrace" the Black Lives Matter movement have higher crime rates.

Read more: Fetterman said in 2016 he held a Black Lives Matter 'worldview,' considered viewpoints to be 'common sense'

Democratic Pennsylvania Senate nominee John Fetterman holds a rally with U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean and Mary Gay Scanlon on Sept. 11, 2022, in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman failed to disclose eight real estate assets on a recent financial disclosure, according to a watchdog complaint filed against him.

A report on the matter from The Daily Mail stated the "total value of the properties he left off his disclosure form was $108,800."

All eight of the properties were located in Fetterman's hometown of Braddock, where he once served as mayor.

"His name is listed as owner on all of them on the Allegheny County website. Many of the properties appeared to be empty lots worth between $10,000 and $20,000, one was a building structure worth over $40,000," the report stated.

A letter regarding the matter was sent by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) to Ethics Committee Chairman Sen. Chris Coons, D-De., and Vice Chairman James Lankford, R-Okla., requesting that they "immediately investigate" whether Fetterman violated the law by not listing the properties on his disclosure, the report noted.

As required by federal law and Senate ethics rules, candidates are to file a financial disclosure statement that provides a "full and complete" overview of their assets. Candidate-owned properties with a "fair market value" of $1,000 or more are required to be reported.

The news follows Fetterman's recent criticism of Dr. Mehmet Oz, his GOP challenger in the Senate race, for his homes in New Jersey and Florida.

NEWFIELDS, N.H. – As she runs for re-election this year in the crucial general election battleground state of New Hampshire, former governor and first-term Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan has made a point to highlight her policy differences with President Biden.

"My job is to be an independent voice for New Hampshire. That’s the role I’ve always worked to play and be for Granite Staters," Hassan told Fox News as she answered questions from reporters after voting Tuesday on primary day in New Hampshire.

But when asked if she’ll welcome Biden to the campaign trail, the senator said that "the president of the United States is always welcome in New Hampshire."

Republicans say Hassan’s comments are a lot of election year rhetoric. Click here for more.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is infusing $15 million from his own Senate campaign coffers to bolster Democratic Senate incumbents and candidates running in key battleground states in November's midterm elections that will determine majority control of the chamber.

Democratic sources confirmed to Fox News the word of Schumer's cash transfers, which were first reported earlier Tuesday by Politico.

Click here to read our Fox News report on which Democrats will receive Schumer's campaign cash.

Florida gubernatorial candidate Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., told several people Gov. Ron DeSantis is "DeSatan." (Octavio Jones)

Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., the Democratic candidate taking on Gov. Ron DeSantis in the midterms this November, has made several biblical references while speaking to potential voters at recent campaign events, referring to his GOP opponent as "DeSatan" and himself as "Christ."

While speaking at Sally O’Brien's in Key West, Crist made a peculiar comparison of DeSantis burning books and the devil being reincarnated. He then asked his supporters whether they knew about DeSantis' nickname. 

"You know some people call him DeSatan?" Crist asked.

Crist, a former governor of Florida who is attempting to return to the governor's mansion, said the race is "DeSatan versus that" — pointing to one of his campaign signs. Several people in the audience shouted "Christ!" Crist responded, "Think about it. Boom."

Read more from Fox News' Aubrie Spady here.

FILE - Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bennet speaks to voters at a house party in Manchester, New Hampshire, Dec. 8, 2019. (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)

In a press release Tuesday, Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., who is seeking re-election this fall, released a statement reacting to Senate Republicans introducing a new bill that would place further federal restrictions on abortion.

“I’m grateful to represent a state that has codified a woman’s right to choose. The nationwide abortion ban introduced by Senate Republicans is completely outrageous. It would affect every state, defying the will of Colorado voters and the majority of the Americans who support reproductive freedom. I will continue to defend a woman’s right to choose in the US Senate and fight back against far-right attempts to allow the government to interfere in decisions between a woman and her doctor.”

On Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Patrick Ryan, Democratic candidate for the New York 19th Congressional district, speaks during the special election candidate forum at the Roscoe Beer Co. in Roscoe, New York, on Thursday, August 18, 2022. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Congressman-elect Pat Ryan and Congresswoman-elect Mary Peltola are expected to be sworn into office today after winning special elections in their districts.

Ryan won the special election in New York's 19th Congressional District, and will represent his district until being back on the ballot in New York's 18th Congressional District this fall. Peltola won the heated race to represent Alaska's at-large Congressional District and will also be the ballot again in the midterms in November.

Joe Biden files to place his name on New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary, at the Statehouse in Concord, NH on Nov. 8, 2019

As New Hampshire voters head to the polls Tuesday for the state’s primary elections, Nashua Republicans sounded off on crucial issues that could affect the midterms and beyond.

Nashua, the state’s second-largest city, is in New Hampshire’s 2nd congressional district, which is currently represented by Democrat Annie Kuster in the U.S. House, with several Republicans vying to challenge her. Former governor and first-term Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan is also up for re-election this year in a seat Republicans hope to flip in November. 

Seven voters with the Nashua Republican City Committee spoke with Fox News Digital about what they think of the job President Biden is doing, how the issue of abortion could affect the midterms and their reaction to the administration’s proposed student loan handouts.

Read more from Fox News' Alexa Moutevelis here.

President Joe Biden, CEO of SparkCharge Joshua Aviv and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) arrive for a signing ceremony for the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 on the South Lawn of the White House on August 9, 2022 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

An increasing trend among top Democrats running for re-election in November's midterms has them pitting themselves against their own party, as well as President Biden, despite their past statements and voting records telling a different story.

This group of vulnerable Democrats at risk of losing their seats to Republican challengers has progressively sought to paint themselves as moderates, as well as independent-minded members of Congress, and touted what some of them have referred to as their record of standing up to Biden and Democratic Party leadership in order to win re-election.

A review of their congressional voting records and a number of their previous statements suggest the contrary as many of them consistently voted in tandem with the Biden administration's legislative agenda according to FiveThirtyEight, as well as that of Democratic Party leadership according to ProPublica, and expressed support for Biden and the job he has done as president.

Read more from Fox News' Brandon Gillespie here.

Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman spent a portion of his Monday evening on the campaign trail with three West Philadelphia councilmembers who have expressed support for efforts to defund police departments.

In photos shared to one of his social media accounts, Fetterman, who referred to the council members as "outstanding," posed with a smile alongside District 3 Councilmember Jamie Gauthier and councilmembers-at-large Kendra Brooks and Isaiah Thomas.

In a tweet, Fetterman said, "Three outstanding Councilmembers who are with me in my fight to turn out every vote here in Philly Support local Black-owned businesses."

In 2020, amid nationwide protests and riots following the police-involved death of George Floyd, the three councilmembers made clear that they support efforts to defund or reduce funding to police departments, with Thomas calling the notion his "definition of reform."

In a July 2020 essay penned by Thomas, the councilmember who took office in 2020, argued that too much money is already going toward the Philadelphia police department and insisted he wanted to find "more effective investments" in public safety.

Read more: Fetterman campaigns with 'outstanding' councilmembers who support calls to 'defund the police'

Rep. Tim Ryan, the Democratic Ohio Senate candidate facing Trump-backed J.D. Vance this fall, told MSNBC that he's willing to work with the GOP, but wants to "kill and confront" the "extremists" in the Republican party.

"The Democrats aren't right on everything, and I'm willing to sit down and have conversations about how we can move out of the age of this age of stupidity and into an age of reconciliation and reform. How do we fix all of these broken systems," Ryan told the network.

"Some of those answers will come from Republicans. Not the extremists we're dealing with everyday — we've gotta kill and confront that movement," Ryan said.

"Working with normal, mainstream Republicans, I think that's going to be really important because we have to reform these systems."

Ryan's rhetoric echoes that of President Joe Biden, who targeted "extreme MAGA Republicans" in several recent speeches, calling them threats to the democracy and comparing their philosophy to "semi-fascism."

The Democrats are referring to the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement of former President Donald Trump and all of those who support it.

HAMPSTEAD, N.H. – Matt Mowers touts he’s "the only one" in a crowded field of Republican candidates who can defeat two-term Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas in November’s midterm elections in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District, which has long been a highly contested swing House district. 

As he runs for re-election, Republicans view Pappas as vulnerable amid a political climate that for the past year had favored the GOP. Republicans need a net gain of just five seats in the 435-member House in November’s midterms to take back the chamber’s majority they lost in the 2018 elections, and they’re heavily eyeing New Hampshire’s First District.

But the 33-year-old Mowers faces a fierce rival for the GOP nomination in 25-year-old Karoline Leavitt, who’s repeatedly targeted Mowers in a Republican primary that’s turned increasingly combustible.

Read more from Fox News Paul Steinhauser here

GOP Senate candidate and retired Army general in New Hampshire Don Bolduc. (Fox News)

Democrats are once again interfering in a GOP primary election, meddling in New Hampshire's Senate race to boost the candidate they view as easier to beat in the general election, but this time a Republican group is spending on the airwaves to offset the Democrats' gamble. 

According to reports, the Sen. Chuck Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC is expected to spend around $3.5 million to help secure a primary win for Republican candidate Don Bolduc, who is largely viewed as the weaker general election candidate to take on Senator Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., who is seeking re-election this fall.

While the Democrats are spending big to help Bolduc, Republicans are hoping to offset the Democrats' strategy by spending millions to run ads against him to help boost his rival GOP candidate, state Senator Chuck Morse, who is viewed by many as a more competitive general election candidate for the Republicans. 

Read more from Fox News' Aubrie Spady here.

Retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc, a Republican Senate candidate in New Hampshire, speaks with supporters in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, on Sept. 12, 2022 (Fox News )

Six months after Texas held the first primaries of 2022, it is the season finale, as New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Delaware hold nominating contests on Tuesday.

New Hampshire, a small but crucial general election battleground state, is host to the final high-profile and competitive Republican Senate and House of Representatives primaries, which throughout the past six months have often pitted conservative candidates supported by mainstream Republicans against far-right contenders often aligned with former President Trump and his legions of MAGA loyalists. 

The final contests come with just eight weeks to go until November’s midterm elections, when the GOP aims to win back majorities in the House and Senate. While the former president remained uncharacteristically neutral in New Hampshire’s top three Republican primary showdowns, there has been a deluge of outside spending in the final weeks by Republican and Democratic outside groups who view the Trump aligned candidates as unelectable in November."

"I’ve been concentrating on Granite Staters for the past two years. They’re the ones that matter. Not people in Washington D.C.," retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc told Fox News on the eve of the Sept. 13 primary after speaking with supporters at a bagel and coffee shop in the seaside village of Hampton Beach.

The primary winner will face off in November with former governor and first-term Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in a race that is among a handful across the country that may determine if the GOP wins back the Senate majority. Republicans have heavily targeted Hassan, who they view as very vulnerable due to her lackluster poll numbers.

Read more: 2022 primary season concludes with fiery Republican face-offs in battleground New Hampshire

Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman are running for Senate in PA (Getty Images)

The Washington Post editorial board called on Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman to join the debates against GOP nominee Mehmet Oz, and said the questions about his health are important.

"Mr. Fetterman has seemingly been reluctant to commit to firm debate dates, and that troubling stance has raised questions about whether he, still recovering from a serious stroke, is fit to serve in the Senate," The Post’s Editorial Board explained.

The editorial board said it was sympathetic to Fetterman's recovery from the stroke he suffered in May, but indicated that the campaign had "squandered credibility" by concealing Fetterman's health concerns and avoiding debates.

"Mr. Oz has pressed for five debates, but Mr. Fetterman dodged and ducked before tentatively agreeing last week to one but not until ‘sometime in the middle to end of October,’" The Post wrote. "That’s well after Sept. 19, when voters can start casting mail-in ballots, and it’s short of the two debates that had been the standard during recent competitive Senate contests in Pennsylvania."

Read more: Washington Post Editorial Board calls out Fetterman campaign, demands he attend debate

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