Hannah Meade (N) | 49.98% | 3,221,994 |
Gina Kertousin (C) | 49.57% | 3,195,238 |
Other | 0.45% | 29,008 |
TOTAL: | 6,446,240 |
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Hannah Meade survives close call in Wilkonshire re-election race
Halver wins Trinton AG race easily, defeating liberal incumbent
PORT ALICE, Tri. -- Former Trinton Attorney General Troy Halver will be heading back to his old office.
Trinton Secretary of State Adrianne Rodgers confirmed Halver won back his old position, and he did so easily.
Halver defeated liberal incumbent Damon Garcia-Pererra (N) by a margin of 54.66% to Garcia-Pererra's 44.85 percent, respectively.
Halver, a Nationalist who switched his party affiliation to Independent, ran with the support of Trinton's Conservative Party, which agreed not to run a Conservative candidate against Halver and Garcia-Perrera.
The tough-on-crime Nationalist, who has appealed to Conservative and moderate, blue collar voters who value public safety, ran the table in Trinton's most populous counties.
Halver pulled off an impressive 61%-38% win in conservative Port Alice County, his adopted home county, where he now resides.
He also won big in right-leaning Southshore County, where he won 58%-41%, respectively.
He achieved smaller victories in Oceanview, Grandley and Merceda Counties, but all three counties typically trend liberal, so a win for a right-leaning candidate such as Halver is significant.
At a press conference on election night in Chesterhead, southern Port Alice County, Halver told reporters the election results prove voters want a new direction forward on crime.
"Tonight, voters resoundingly showed they want law and order in Trinton again," said Halver. "The woke policies of leftist politicians, free bail, catch and release, multiple strikes instead of just three strikes...the voters have rejected these policies that liberal Nationalist politicians put into place. And starting tomorrow, we are going to reverse all of those disastrous policies."
Halver's words were received with thundering applause by attendees to his election night party. In fact, the applause was so loud and strong, he had to pause for more than 30 seconds at one point while the audience let out their excitement.
Over at his election night gathering in northeast Williamstown, Damon Garcia-Perrera conceded the race, but he rejected the idea that Halver won in a landslide.
"He only won because the Conservatives backed him. And he pulled some traditional NAT voters. Had the Conservatives not backed him and agreed not to run a candidate of their own, Troy Halver would not have won. I just think that's worth mentioning. This idea that he won a massive mandate, it's just not true. He won, but he did so with unusual circumstances," said Garcia-Perrera.
Conservatives accused the outgoing attorney general of being a bad sport.
"Damon's just pissed he lost. It's classic sour grapes attitude. He lost and he can't admit he lost fair and square," said Kevin DeWight, a conservative political operative who has worked on multiple statewide Conservative campaigns, but did not work for Troy Halver this election.
The celebration at the Brasswood Golf and Country Club in Chesterhead, where Halver held his campaign party, went late into the early morning hours. Halver himself left the party around midnight and went "straight to bed," he told reporters the next morning.
"I need my rest because we have so much work to do, and I want to hit the ground running."
Halver's election makes him the first person to serve as attorney general, vacate the office, and then return to it.
Conservative Secretary of State Trip Kellet achieved the same status when he defeated, by a more modest margin, Nationalist Secretary of State Adrianne Rogers (N).
Trinton's state government will now be led by conservative men, although Halver continues to identify as a Nationalist, but "an independent Nationalist," he told reporters last week.
He has declined to say if he will switch parties and officially join the CNS Party.