{"id":57288,"date":"2024-11-14T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T16:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57288"},"modified":"2024-11-14T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T16:03:02","slug":"states-matter-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57288","title":{"rendered":"States Matter Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/12\/republicans-look-to-reshape-state-goverments-after-major-2024-victories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Federalist<\/a> posted an article about what happened in various state elections on November 5th. Unfortunately, the elections in North Carolina did not go as well for conservatives as they did in some other states. Much of of the North Carolina Council of State went Democrat. Although the Democrats won the governorship, the lieutenant governorship, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Republicans won the positions of State Auditor, Treasurer, Commissioner of Agriculture, Commissioner of Labor, and Commissioner of Insurance. They lost their veto-proof\u00a0 majority in the North Carolina House of Representatives, but gained a veto-proof majority in the North Carolina Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The article at The Federalist shares the results from some other states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In Arizona, Republicans are on track to maintain their <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Arizona_State_Legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">majorities<\/a> in the state House and Senate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/11\/05\/us\/elections\/results-arizona.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">preliminary election results<\/a> from the New York Times suggest. Republicans could <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/story\/5625943\/arizona-legislature-election-gop-leading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">potentially expand<\/a> their majorities in both chambers as well. The outcome marks a huge defeat for leftists, who spent <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/01\/the-battle-for-arizonas-legislature-is-a-choice-between-freedom-and-left-wing-tyranny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">millions of dollars<\/a> to flip or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/05\/emocrats-state-legislature-races-2024-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reach ties<\/a>\u201d in state legislatures including in Arizona, as The Federalist previously reported, where a slim GOP legislative majority separates the state from a Democrat trifecta takeover.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In South Carolina, unofficial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/11\/05\/us\/elections\/results-south-carolina.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">results<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/2024\/11\/07\/gop-picks-up-supermajority-sc-senate-retains-sc-house-supermajority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicate<\/a> Republicans won a veto-proof supermajority in the state Senate and held onto their supermajority in the state House of Representatives. Similar trends are also reflected in Iowa\u2019s preliminary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/11\/05\/us\/elections\/results-iowa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">results<\/a>, which show the state GOP is already projected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/elections\/results-iowa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expand<\/a> its majority in the state House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In New Hampshire, Republicans are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/11\/05\/us\/elections\/results-new-hampshire.html\">on track<\/a> to maintain <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/New_Hampshire_General_Court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trifecta control<\/a> of state government, according to early results. The GOP is projected to win the governor\u2019s mansion and a supermajority in the Senate and could also <a href=\"https:\/\/newhampshirebulletin.com\/2024\/11\/11\/republicans-have-wide-majorities-in-the-house-and-senate-here-are-their-priorities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expand<\/a> its majority in the House compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/elections\/results-new-hampshire.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022<\/a> results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many Americans are unhappy with the impact our open southern border is having on cities and states. Crime has skyrocketed, housing has become more expensive and harder to find, and the cost of providing food and housing to people who are not here legally has been enormous. Many of the states that have been hit the hardest by the unlimited migration of people who have not been vetted voted for change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, The Federalist posted an article about what happened in various state elections on November 5th. Unfortunately, the elections in North Carolina did not go as well for conservatives as they did in some other states. Much of of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13582,321,17378,448,11815],"class_list":["post-57288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-americas-southern-border","tag-new-hampshire","tag-north-carolina-council-of-state","tag-south-carolina","tag-the-federalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57289,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57288\/revisions\/57289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}