Midterm races are heating up as November 8 quickly approaches. ROKK Partner and Democratic strategist Kristen Hawn and America Rising PAC executive director Cassie Smedile discuss voters’ most important issues ahead of 2022 midterms with Fox News. Watch the discussion here.
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One hundred days after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion, public approval of the court has dropped to historic lows as it prepares to open its new term on October 3rd. According to a Gallup poll, 47 percent of Americans said they have at least a “fair amount” of trust in the judicial branch, representing a 20-percentage-point drop from 2020, including 7 points since 2021. In the wake of the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, many Democrats, including President Biden, are seeking to use the Court’s rightward turn as a way to galvanize turnout ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
ROKK co-founding partner and Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau sat down with the Hill and discussed how the current state of the court could help Democrats down the road. Read the article here.
Republicans are facing an increasingly uphill battle in New Hampshire’s Senate race as polls show their chosen candidate, Don Bolduc, losing ground to Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) in the 2022 midterms. Observers had long seen Hassan as one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents in the upper chamber, but that changed in the primaries when GOP voters chose Bolduc, a hard-right candidate aligned with former President Trump, as the party’s nominee. Jeff Grappone, ROKK Senior Vice President and former aide to two Republican senators from New Hampshire, spoke with the Hill about whether Gen. Bolduc can turn his campaign around in time before the Nov. 8 general election. Read the article here.
Just weeks before the 2022 Election Day, the US Senate races in closely watched swing states remain tight, but a clearer picture of the landscape heading into the final midterm sprint is beginning to emerge. The Hill’s Caroline Vakil took a look at the seven US Senate seats most likely to flip in November and discussed how the elections in Nevada and Ohio will go with ROKK co-founding partner Rodell Mollineau. Read the article here.
The Hill’s Caroline Vakil interviewed experienced political analysts to gauge the status in upcoming Senate races and see which parties are most likely to experience seat reversals in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. ROKK Solutions Co-founding Partner Rodell Mollineau shares his take on what themes are important to Nevada voters ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Get the full story here.
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis orchestrated flights sending migrants and asylum seekers from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, many observers saw a stunt aimed at raising the Republican’s political profile ahead of a potential 2024 White House run. However, according to GOP operatives, the move also gave Republicans running for Congress the opportunity to focus on illegal immigration and border security, topics they’ve clamored to put at the center of the fall’s 2022 midterm elections. In Business Insider, ROKK Senior Vice President Jeff Grappone discusses whether the migrant trafficking lawsuit will have lasting damage to the party or DeSantis’ suspected presidential ambitions in 2024. Read the article here.
U.S. legislators are running out of time to pass several pending bills related to reining in the power of Big Tech before the focus shifts to campaigning in this year’s 2022 midterm elections. Seats in both chambers of Congress are up for grabs, and policy analysts say Republicans have a strong chance of taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives during the midterm elections. If that occurs, the new House leadership is expected to set a different tone on tech regulation, with Republicans likely to resurface concerns about platform censorship over antitrust regulations. ROKK Co-founding Partner Rodell Mollineau spoke to S&P Global and discussed Big Tech and how these political and partisan fights are playing out. Read the article here.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will unveil plans to support the U.S. energy industry, fight crime and combat illegal immigration as they seek to gain the upper hand in the 2022 midterm elections. The Republicans bill their “Commitment to America” agenda as a prescription for economic and social ills they say President Joe Biden’s Democrats have caused, and hope it will also serve as a unifying message for the party in the closing weeks of the campaign. ROKK Co-founding Partner Ron Bonjean spoke to Reuters and discussed how it is important that Republicans keep their messaging focused on the themes outlined in the “Commitment to America” agenda ahead of the November 8th midterms. Read the article here.
President Biden has been saying that he plans to run for a second term, but with the 2022 midterms approaching, most Democrats aren’t sure he will follow through on that plan. ROKK Co-founding Partner Rodell Mollineau spoke to the Hill and discussed how most of the “experts” speaking on this topic will not go on the record, likely because they will look foolish if Biden runs and wins in 2024. Read the article here.
The White House came close to facing yet another crisis, this time over a railroad dispute that could have taken a crowbar to the U.S. economy ahead of the crucial 2022 midterm elections. in the end, a tentative deal was struck, with both sides crediting the Biden administration with stepping in to help avert a strike. In this Hill article, ROKK Co-founding Partner Rodell Mollineau discusses the tentative deal and how it saved the political momentum Biden currently has.