The southern Vermont debate will feature Republican nominee Gerald Malloy and Democratic nominee Peter Welch. The 2022 Digger Debate Series will also include events focused on the U.S. House, gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial races.
Brock Pierce, the cryptocurrency mogul and former child actor, won't be on the ballot this fall.
Welch, a long-time Democratic member of the U.S. House, is up against Malloy, a Republican political newcomer. Malloy defeated former U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan in the GOP primary.
The U.S. Army veteran, a Weathersfield resident, has advocated reinforcing the southern border and banning abortion nationally. A political newcomer, Malloy was leading in the latest poll of likely Republican voters.
By mid-July, both the state senator and lieutenant governor had crossed the $1 million fundraising milestone.
The event supporting Nolan’s run to join Collins, a Maine Republican, in the U.S. Senate will be hosted by a federal political action committee that promotes Republican women running for Congress.
At least five openly gay, lesbian or bisexual candidates are running in statewide elections this year — and speaking about their identity on the campaign trail.
“I'm not willing to accept the idea that this election is for sale, that this is an auction,” said Evans-Frantz, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Peter Welch in the Democratic primary for Vermont’s open Senate seat.
Former “First Kid” star and crypto magnate Brock Pierce is the beneficiary of Act 22, a law passed on the U.S. territory in 2012 to coax the rich to relocate to the Caribbean island.
Responding to questions about “what kind of Republican” they are, candidates for Vermont’s Republican U.S. Senate nomination debated the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
The team generally communicates with the press through an anonymous email account that does not include a phone number. The campaign has not responded to multiple requests for a staff list.
While the former federal prosecutor said she believes Roe v. Wade “needs to be preserved and upheld,” she characterized the proposed constitutional amendment to protect reproductive rights in Vermont as “extreme.”
Of 278 survey respondents likely to vote in the Democratic primary this August, 28% said they would vote for Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, 21% said they would vote for Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, 19% said they would support state Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale, D-Chittenden, and less than 1% said they would vote for Sianay Chase Clifford.
