Georgia Republican Voters Reject More of Trump’s Primary, While a Late Election Prevails in Alabama


Trump’s politics remain firmly entrenched — and deeply influential — in almost every Republican election across the country, but the measure of his personal influence has taken a hit so far this primary season.

Alabamans elected the Republican they endorsed just 10 days ago in a high-stakes Senate primary runoff decided Tuesday, but the limits of Trump’s power were clear in Georgia, a state he lost in 2020, where Republican voters have given him a series of embarrassing primary rebukes for this year’s midterms.
Earlier this spring, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who rebuked Trump’s pleas to help him nullify the 2020 presidential election, defeated the Trump-backed primary. CNN projected Tuesday that state Rep. Bee Nguyen will face Raffensperger in the fall.

The latest blows to Trump’s patrons it came Tuesday in a pair of US House of Representatives primaries.

In the 10th congressional district, CNN projects Kemp-backed businessman Mike Collins, son of the late US Rep. Mac Collins, will defeat former Democratic state Rep. Vernon Jones, who was endorsed by Trump. The contest provided the closest thing to a clear proxy battle between Trump and Kemp, and Collins, though an arch-conservative aligned with the former president, is on course for a comfortable victory.

Trump’s pick, Jake Evans, the former chairman of the State Ethics Commission, will also fall to emergency room doctor Rich McCormick in the sixth congressional district runoff, CNN projects.

Trump fell out of the race in Southwest Georgia’s 2nd District, for three decades the unchallenged province of Democratic Rep. Sanford Bishop, a centrist member of the “Blue Dog” caucus. However, some national Republicans did not. West Point graduate and frequent Fox guest Jeremy Hunt had the endorsement of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley while the Republican National Congressional Committee singled him out as a rising star, considering the black candidate as a potential game changer in the largely rural and pluralistic black district. .

But CNN projects that attorney Chris West, a former Georgia Air National Guard officer, will win the Republican nomination to take on Sanford. West and his allies portrayed Hunt as an outsider who parachuted into the district after leaving Yale Law School in Connecticut to run.

Alabama Republicans go with establishment in Senate runoff

Trump scored a victory of sorts in Alabama on Tuesday, where CNN projects Katie Britt, the former chief of staff to retiring Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, will win the runoff of the Republican Senate primary.

He will defeat Rep. Mo Brooks, or “MAGA Mo,” as he calls himself, after Britt narrowly missed out on the nomination on May 24. Trump initially endorsed Brooks in the primary, then dropped in March. citing Brooks’ comments about passing the 2020 election.
But Brooks’ struggles in the polls were also believed to have influenced Trump, who closely follows his column of sponsorship wins in the primary. So it was no surprise that the former president returned to the race 10 days ago, this time to support Britt, a Republican establishment favorite who finished the first round of the primary with more than 44% of the vote.

Republicans pick nominees for key US House races in Virginia

The battle lines are clearer in Virginia, as Republicans in two key US House districts chose the candidates they hope to unseat a pair of endangered Democrats this fall.

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In the 2nd seaside congressional district, CNN projects that state Sen. Jen Kiggans has secured a showdown with incumbent Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria. Kiggans, who fits a more traditional Republican profile and had the backing of congressional Republican leaders in his primaries, will defeat three others, including Jarome Bell, who was more aligned with Trump’s right-wing allies, including the Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael. Flynn and Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar. In a tweet last year, Bell called for the execution of “everyone involved” in Trump’s imaginary voter fraud by 2020. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Virginia’s 7th district became more favorable to Democrats after redistricting. It’s less clear if that will be enough to save Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who does not face a challenge in the primary, in November, especially in the state where backlash against Democratic rule in Washington won its first headlines last year with the Republican Glenn Youngkin. victory in the governor’s race.

CNN projects Prince William County Supervisor Yesli Vega will win the Republican nomination in District 7. She had the backing of Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist who is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Sen. Texas Ted Cruz.

Vega emerged from the field of six candidates, defeating state Sen. Bryce Reeves, who was supported by Utah Sen. Mike Lee, the political arm of FreedomWorks and the campaign arm of the National Rifle Association; Derrick Anderson, a retired Green Beret endorsed by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton; and Stafford County Board President Crystal Vanuch.

Abrams’ influence on display in Georgia Democratic runoffs

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ influence with Georgia Democrats was further cemented Tuesday, as at least two of her endorsed state candidates won their primaries.

Nguyen, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants backed by Abrams, pushed through despite comments from her rival, former state Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler, that the Democratic Party has “a racial problem” and that institutional support to Nguyen was part of a bid to diversify his ballot and appeal to white voters. Dawkins-Haigler, like Abrams, is black.

CNN also projects that in the second round of the primary for lieutenant governor, another Abrams backer, Charlie Bailey, will defeat Kwanza Hall, a better-known candidate who briefly served as a member of Congress in the late Rep. John Lewis’s district. Abrams also endorsed state Rep. William Boddie in his race against businesswoman Nicole Horn in the second round of the labor commissioner primary.

Washington, DC, was also a political battleground in the Democratic primary for mayor. Two-term mayor Muriel Bowser will win the nomination again, CNN projects, defeating three challengers: DC Council members Robert White and Trayon White, along with James Butler, who finished second in the 2018 primary, by about 70 percentage points. behind Bowser.

This story has been updated with additional developments.



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