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Midterm campaign live updates: GOP's Cheney endorses Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan for Senate
ABC News is reporting on campaign developments in key states across the U.S.
The 2022 campaign is shaping up to be a historic, decisive moment in American politics.
From our reporters across the country, ABC News brings you all the latest on what the candidates are saying and doing -- and what voters want to happen in November's midterm elections.
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Here is the latest from the campaign trail:
- Republican Rep. Liz Cheney endorses Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Tim Ryan
- Biden to travel San Diego on Thursday for endangered House Democrat Rep. Mike Levin
- Arizona Libertarian Senate candidate drops out of race, throws support to GOP nominee Blake Masters
- Fetterman gives first interview after post-stroke debate
- Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman cuts ad for Sen. Mike Lee
- Obama backs PA Senate candidate John Fetterman in new ads
Biden's 'focus not on himself,' White House says, as poll finds Dem skepticism
On Monday, the White House side-stepped the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll showing a clear majority of Democrats wanting the party to replace Joe Biden as its nominee for president in 2024 -- again repeating his intention to run for another term.
Asked by ABC Chief White House Correspondent Cecilia Vega if Biden is concerned with a majority of Democrats wanting a change at the top of the ticket, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden's "focus is not on himself," but rather "continuing to deliver for the American people."
The poll, published Sunday, found that 56% of Democrats want the party to nominate someone other than Biden in 2024. His overall job approval numbers remain under 40%.
Biden's polling on the economy is also in trouble, with just 36% of Americans approving of how he's handling the issue. Pressed by Vega on whether there's anything the White House plans to do differently in the final stretch before the midterms, Jean-Pierre said administration officials will continue to "go out there" and talk about their wins in the past 19 months.
"I understand what you're saying about the president's numbers, but what we are going to focus on is how we are going to continue to deliver for the American people, especially at the most important things that matter to them," she said.
"When you think about Medicare, you think about Social Security, you think about the pieces of legislation that we have passed, they are very popular with the American people, with Republicans and Democrats. And so that is also important to note. So we're going to keep getting out there."
–ABC News' Justin Gomez
Cheney says she'll campaign against Lake, Mastriano because of election denials
Outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., reiterated this weekend that she would campaign against election deniers, singling out Republican gubernatorial nominees in Arizona and Pennsylvania who've floated conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential race.
Cheney, who lost her primary last month to a challenger endorsed by former President Donald Trump, said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Saturday that she would seek to prevent Arizona Republican Kari Lake and Pennsylvania Republican Doug Mastriano from being elected to their states' governors' mansions.
"I'm going to do everything I can to make sure Kari Lake is not elected," Cheney said at the closing night of the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.
"I think we have to do everything we can in '22 to make sure those people don't get elected," she added. Turning to the governor's race in Pennsylvania, she said, "We have to make sure [Doug] Mastriano doesn't win."
She also criticized Republican leaders like Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin for, in her words, accommodating election deniers even as she praised Youngkin because he "hasn't bought into the toxin of Donald Trump."
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–ABC News’ Libby Cathey and Tal Axelrod
Pelosi raises stakes as Democrats confront stark new polls: The Note
She's been here before -- on both sides of elections she's wanted framed as either choices or referendums, in years that saw Democrats winning and losing and winning again before this fateful cycle began.
This time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is helping message on what she hopes will be a "choice" election around a series of issues that are specific and tangible but, taken together, are almost unimaginably broad.
"The planet, the democracy, the future for our children is on the ballot," Pelosi told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an interview for the inaugural episode of the Hulu series "Power Trip."
That argument comes as Pelosi's Democrats confront polls that speak to a specific political predicament. The shows President Joe Biden's approval rating stuck below 40%, with Republicans clinging to a very narrow edge in the generic congressional ballot.
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–ABC News’ Rick Klein
Fetterman holds same-day rallies for first time since stroke
Democrat John Fetterman held back-to-back rallies Saturday for the first time since his stroke in May, the latest step for a candidate who has eased his way back to the trail as he battles celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
The lieutenant governor spoke in Philadelphia -- his first open-press event in the city since he launched his campaign, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer -- before rallying in the politically competitive Lehigh Valley with vulnerable House incumbent Susan Wild.
He recycled the same messaging that has riled his supporters since the summer – jabs at Oz for his New Jersey ties and jokes about a video in which Oz shopped for crudite.
"[My team] said, 'Check out the crudite video.' And I heard that, and I actually thought it was a stroke thing. I said, 'What is this?' and Googled, 'What is a crudite?'" Fetterman said, to roars of laughter from the crowd, which the campaign said exceeded 1,000 people.
Wild is fighting to hang on to her House seat in a district that was redrawn this year to include more Republican voters. Cook Political Report labels her race “Lean R,” and she encouraged the crowd to vote for Democrats up and down the ballot.
In an on-camera interview with ABC News after the event, Wild said that the redistricting has not affected her message to voters.
“People across my district, no matter what part of the district they’re in, they have the same issues,” she said. “People here are concerned about jobs, about making sure that we bring back this ‘made in America’ mentality, because that’s what this district was founded on.”
-ABC News' Will McDuffie
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney endorses Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Tim Ryan
Rep. Liz Cheney, who was ousted from office this year in Wyoming after voting to impeach former President Donald Trump, has endorsed Rep. Tim Ryan in his senate bid in Ohio, the latest Democrat to garner Cheney's endorsement, the first being Rep. Elissa Slotkin, whom the Wyoming representative is planning to stump for at a campaign event later this evening in Lansing, Michigan.
This new Democratic endorsement was first reported by .
Cheney said during an appearance at Cleveland State University today that members of her party should reject Ryan's opponent J.D. Vance and other candidates who support Trump's unproven claims about voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
When asked by PBS Newshour anchor Judy Woodruff whether Cheney would run for president on 2024, she didn't deny she was considering it.
"I think the most important question is whether we as a nation are going to do what we have to do to preserve the republic," said Cheney.
"That's really what I'm focused on."
–ABC News' Paulina Tam