# 2022 US Senate Races **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 6, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327 "2020-10-06T10:26:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/542 "2022-05-18T03:05:59Z")
I’m going to predict that Kathy Barnette is going to claim that the election was rigged or unfair in some way. She’s nowhere near the percentage that recent polling indicated. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/543 "2022-05-18T10:55:22Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > It early in the vote counting in PA but it looks like McCormick with a decent lead. Oz currently ahead by less than 3000 votes with over 100,000 left to count. Could end up in recount territory, even if Barnette doesn’t kick up a fuss. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/544 "2022-05-18T12:50:41Z")
Cawthorn lost? I bet he did Nazi that coming. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/545 "2022-05-18T13:15:58Z")
Surprised the crazy bigot lady in PA did so poorly. For the past several days she seemed to be surging. Still pretty close for the other two and may take days to sort out. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/546 "2022-05-18T13:24:07Z")
Early, unconfirmed reports that Fetterman won all 67 PA counties. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/547 "2022-05-18T15:20:42Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Surprised the crazy bigot lady in PA did so poorly. For the past several days she seemed to be surging. Still pretty close for the other two and may take days to sort out. And yet she didn’t do as well as her polling suggested she would. Trump, meanwhile, is already raging at the need to wait for the postal votes to be counted because his endorsed candidate didn’t win bigly. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/548 "2022-05-18T15:59:52Z")
Is there a breakdown of all the candidates Trump endorsed and how they’ve done? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/549 "2022-05-18T16:08:38Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Trump, meanwhile, is already raging at the need to wait for the postal votes to be counted because his endorsed candidate didn’t win bigly. Wait. He doesn’t want to stop the count? ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/550 "2022-05-18T23:46:28Z")
> [@Bootb](#): > > I’m going to predict that Kathy Barnette is going to claim that the election was rigged or unfair in some way. She’s nowhere near the percentage that recent polling indicated. And here we go. [https://thehill.com/news/campaign/3493158-barnette-blames-sean-hannity-for-loss-in-pennsylvania/](https://thehill.com/news/campaign/3493158-barnette-blames-sean-hannity-for-loss-in-pennsylvania/) ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/551 "2022-05-19T00:10:13Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Surprised the crazy bigot lady in PA did so poorly. Especially since you can find a roughly equivalent Mastriano soundbite for each of hers. And I’d say that coming from a colonel, rather than a corporal-equivalent, makes it is a bit worse. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/552 "2022-05-19T00:45:55Z")
Rank hath its privileges. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/553 "2022-05-19T09:07:29Z")
With about 2% of votes to be counted the PA race is narrowing - Oz is only about 1,300 votes ahead now. Automatic recount occurs at a 0.5% difference unless waived and we’re currently at around 0.1%, so this one could drag on and on, complete with regular Trumpian temper tantrums. Should be fun, especially for Fetterman. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/554 "2022-05-19T13:05:10Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > Democrat Cheri Beasley and Trump-backed Republican Rep. Tedd Budd easily won their parties’ nominations for Senate in North Carolina. NC is going to be a hill to climb for any Democrat – the state hasn’t voted for a Democrat for Senate since 2008 and the political climate won’t do Beasley any favors. But NC is usually close, so I wouldn’t count her out. And now Pat McCrory is (very predictably) whining about being called a RINO by Budd during the campaign, and complaining that no one cares about policies or issues any more. McCrory must have forgotten that he tried to catch the MAGAt train back in 2016 when he was still governor and got run over by it (HB2, anyone?). He could have won the governorship again if it hadn’t been for that. I believe Beasley has a better chance of winning in November than one might think. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/555 "2022-05-19T20:17:16Z")
Not if she keeps squandering money on direct mail. She’s sent me at least six fundraising pitches despite my responding to the first one, postage paid, asking to be taken off her mailing list. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/556 "2022-05-19T22:35:18Z")
An interesting overview: > **[John Fetterman dominated the Pa. Democratic Senate primary. Here’s how he won.](https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/how-john-fetterman-won-pa-democratic-senate-primary-20220518.html)** > > Fetterman used his "outsider" appeal to tap into a growing populist electorate in Pennsylvania and ran a campaign focused on voters. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/557 "2022-05-23T00:50:27Z")
> **[Trump ditched Mo Brooks for going ‘woke.’ Now he’s rising again in the polls.](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/22/trump-mo-brooks-alabama-senate-00034249)** > > Two months after Donald Trump withdrew his endorsement, the Alabama congressman could very well advance to a Senate runoff. > [@](#): > > Two months after Trump torpedoed Brooks’ campaign by rescinding his endorsement — a move that dropped the MAGA stalwart to a distant third place in the GOP primary — Brooks could very well advance to a runoff after Tuesday’s election. I see - so, now that the seditious scumbag might be looking like a “winner” again, the Orange Scumbag will turn around and say he’s nothing but the best, or something. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/558 "2022-05-24T13:11:17Z")
Meanwhile, down in Georgia: > **[How Herschel Walker united the right and has Democrats plotting for a fight |...](https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/23/politics/georgia-republican-senate-herschel-walker/index.html)** > > Last summer, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell was nervous about Herschel Walker, seeing stories about the rookie candidate's turbulent past and fearful that an unvetted and untested Republican could implode in the heat of the biggest Senate race in... ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/559 "2022-05-24T15:48:24Z")
Does anyone have any interest in a senate race prediction contest? Probably something formatted like… > [@October 2020 Swing State Confidence Pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-2020-swing-state-confidence-pool/923707): > > This is the 6th and final contest, but don’t worry, you can participate in this one even if you missed the others. Consider these 15 swing states/districts: Arizona Florida Georgia Iowa Maine Maine CD-02 Michigan Minnesota Nebraska CD-02 New Hampshire North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Wisconsin For each of these choose whether the will go D or R in the 2020 presidential election, and then assign a confidence value from 1 to 15 to each. Each confidence value must be used exa… Maybe one now, one in a couple months, and one right before election day. I figured this would be a good thread to ask in to gauge interest. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/560 "2022-05-24T16:33:44Z")
I’m interested in the contest but perhaps wait till the nominees are known. I saw Herschel Walker give a brief interview today. I guess I’m not seeing what makes him appear senatorial in the eyes of the Georgia voters. Hopefully that gives the Dems a chance to hold the seat and the Senate. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327/561 "2022-05-27T22:41:32Z")
Cheney is cooked. > **[As Cheney files for reelection, poll from rival group shows her trailing badly](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/27/cheney-reelection-poll-00035597)** > > The survey, conducted by the Club for Growth, is consistent with other data out of Wyoming in the last year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-us-senate-races/922327.md?page=29)