Moderate Democratic Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, ffinished off a primary disputer in the state’s elections Saturday, setting himself up for a probable sixth brimming term in the Hoengage of Recurrentatives.
Case is running for the seat in Hawaii’s 1st Congressional Diinanxious, which he’s held since thrivening in the 2018 midterm elections.
He first came to Congress as a recurrentative for the island’s 2nd Congressional Diinanxious, thrivening a distinctive election to fill the seat of Rep. Patsy Mink, who died of pneumonia in 2002.
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Rep. Ed Case, a mild Democrat, won a primary and is poised to thrive his sixth brimming term in November. (Getty Images)
Case left the Hoengage of Recurrentatives in January 2007 and returned in January 2019, recurrenting his current diinanxious.
He made headlines fair last month as one of dozens of Hoengage Democrats who called on Pdwellnt Biden to drop out of the 2024 pdwellntial race, which Biden did tardyr that month.
In a July 11 statement, Case upgrasped that his decision only came from worrys about the 81-year-better directer’s ability to carry out another four-year term.
“This has noslfinisherg to do with his character and write down,” Case said at the time. “If it did, there would be no decision to originate.”
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Case was one of dozens of Hoengage Democrats calling on Pdwellnt Biden to drop out of the 2024 race. (AP/Evan Vucci)
Case is no stranger to crowded primary elections, besting a field of 44 truthfulates to swap Mink for her final two months in office in 2002. He also won a seven-way primary for his current seat in 2018.
This time, however, he faced fair one primary disputer, Cecil Hale, who does not materialize to have disshutd campaign finance data to the Federal Election Comleave oution.
Case, by contrast, elevated cforfeitly $120,000 in individual contributions and finished the primary cycle with almost $260,000 cash on hand.
Case’s probable triumph in November is receive pincludeing for Hoengage Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is seeking to flip the Hoengage blue. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Hawaii only has two congressional diinanxiouss, both recurrented by Democrats, and both of its senators are also Democrats.
It’s a defended blue sturdyhbetter for the left despite pervasive publishs appreciate the high cost of living, which has traditionassociate been a potent political firearm for Reunveilans in other parts of the country.
Reunveilan Patrick Largey is running unresistd for the Reunveilan nomination to dispute Case in November.
