{"id":45857,"date":"2022-08-15T09:27:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T09:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bj-penn-garners-less-than-25-percent-of-vote-in-hawaii-primary-election-loss-for-republican-governor\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T09:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T09:27:47","slug":"bj-penn-garners-less-than-25-percent-of-vote-in-hawaii-primary-election-loss-for-republican-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bj-penn-garners-less-than-25-percent-of-vote-in-hawaii-primary-election-loss-for-republican-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"BJ Penn garners less than 25 percent of vote in Hawaii primary election loss for Republican governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"PWtwIn\">BJ Penn isn&#8217;t having much luck outside of the cage.<\/p>\n<p id=\"JwZGhu\">The UFC Hall of Famer and former two-division champion failed to receive enough support to be chosen as Hawaii&#8217;s Republican governor-elect, earning less than 25 percent of the vote in this past Saturday&#8217;s primary election.  According to an official tally, Penn received 22.2 percent of the vote to finish, well behind two-time Republican Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona, who won with 47.5 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p id=\"CVr92A\">Aiona goes on to face current Lieutenant Governor Josh Green, representing the Democratic party in the upcoming general election on Nov.  8.<\/p>\n<p id=\"x5G86I\">Penn announced his intention to run for governor of his home state in October 2021, vowing to challenge government-mandated COVID-19 safety protocols that were affecting Hawaii&#8217;s essential tourism industry.  His goal was to lift all COVID-19-related restrictions.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Nmy2ZU\">Over the past 10 months, Penn has aggressively campaigned on social media using many popular Republican talking points, going as far as to prepare his supporters for the possibility of voter fraud.  The 43-year-old has never held a political position in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p id=\"F0eELk\">Penn is a former UFC champion at lightweight and welterweight.  He has not competed since UFC 237 in May 2019, where he lost an unanimous decision to Clay Guida to extend a winless streak to eight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"EXCWlu\">Over the past few years, Penn has had numerous run-ins with the law.  Most recently, on Jan.  23, 2021, he was arrested in Honokaa, Hawaii, on suspicions of DUI and video was released of Penn being placed in a police car.  He parted ways with the UFC in September 2019 when footage surfaced of Penn being involved in a fight at a Hawaii club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJ Penn isn&#8217;t having much luck outside of the cage. The UFC Hall of Famer and former two-division champion failed to receive enough support to be chosen as Hawaii&#8217;s Republican governor-elect, earning less than 25 percent of the vote in this past Saturday&#8217;s primary election. According to an official tally, Penn received 22.2 percent of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bj-penn-garners-less-than-25-percent-of-vote-in-hawaii-primary-election-loss-for-republican-governor\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BJ Penn garners less than 25 percent of vote in Hawaii primary election loss for Republican governor<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45411,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rory-macdonald-decides-to-retire-as-mma-fighter-my-time-has-come\/","url_meta":{"origin":45857,"position":0},"title":"Rory MacDonald decides to retire as MMA fighter &#8212; &#8216;My time has come&#8217;","date":"August 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Rory MacDonald, one of the top welterweight mixed martial artists of the past decade, has announced his retirement at age 33.MacDonald, of British Columbia, made the announcement less than 24 hours after suffering a TKO loss to Dilano Taylor in a 2022 PFL semifinals matchup. 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