Syndicated with permission via Valiant News| Jack Hatfield|
A Republican has won the Guam House seat for the first time since 1990 in the first election to be called on November 8.
Republican James Moylan defeated his Democrat opponent Judi Won Pat to secure the Delegate seat in the House of Representatives. This makes Moylan the first Republican to hold the non-voting seat for the territory since Vicente T. Blaz, who held the seat from 1985 until his defeat in the 1992 election.
Moylan beat Won Pat with 52.19% of the vote to her 47.15%, replacing incumbent Democrat Michael San Nicolas, who was defeated in the Democrat primary for the island’s governor by Lou Leon Guerrero, who currently holds the position.
We have the 1st GOP Congressional pickup of the midterm election! James Moylan (R) has defeated Judi Won Pat (D) to win the race to be Guam's non-voting delegate to Congress. Moylan will be the 2nd Republican ever elected to be Guam's delegate.https://t.co/CsMip3qAhv
— RRH Elections (@RRHElections) November 8, 2022
Democrats have taken the seat 21 out of 26 times since its creation in 1973, with the first Delegate being Antonio B. Won Pat, the father of Moylan’s opponent this year. The previous Republican candidate only gained 21% of the vote in 2020, and Moylan had been behind in the exit polls by 13 points on Tuesday morning.
Guam has been a US territory since 1950, after American forces took the island from the Spanish following their defeat in the 1898 Spanish-American war, and serves as an important military base for the country in the Pacific.
Current island demographics show that the Pacific island is mostly populated by the local ethnic group, the Chamorro, who make up 37.3% of the population, followed by 29.3% of those with a Filipino background, and 7.1% white, along with various other East Asian and Pacific Islander groups. 94.1% of the islanders are Christian, with 75% Roman Catholic and 17.7% Protestants.
The Australian Financial Review determined that Moylan’s election to the Guam seat marked the start of a “Republican red wave” in the midterms, a sentiment echoed by Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers, who celebrated the win in a post on Twitter.
Red Wave starting! ♨️ US MIDTERMS 2022 UPDATES LIVE: Republicans win in Guam for first time in almost 30 years https://t.co/FYad0ccyUv
— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) November 8, 2022
As Valiant News reported, podcast host and UFC commentator Joe Rogan predicted that the upcoming “red wave” will be akin the famous scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic, “The Shining,” that shows a vast wave of blood being unleashed into a hallway from an elevator.
Rogan said that the voters who are afraid of “getting attacked” for speaking their minds amongst friends are going to be the ones “responsible for the red wave.”
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