Five states voted Tuesday in primaries for November’s midterm elections. Here’s the latest (all times eastern):9:45 p.m.Democrat Chris Jones will face Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders in November’s general election. Jones won the Democratic nomination for governor in Tuesday’s Arkansas primary election.9:30 p.m.Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has won the Republican nomination for governor in Arkansas after a campaign where she focused primarily on national issues and criticizing President Joe Biden.Sanders defeated former talk radio host and podcaster Doc Washburn, who mounted a longshot bid for the GOP nomination in Tuesday’s primary. Five Democrats were also seeking their party’s nomination for governor in Tuesday’s primary.Sanders was endorsed by her former boss, former President Donald Trump, and shattered fundraising records since entering the race last year. Sanders, the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee, blanketed the state with ads targeting Biden on issues like inflation and vowing to fight the “radical left.”She’s running to succeed outgoing Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is barred by term limits from seeking reelection and is considering a run for president in 2024.Trump had publicly encouraged Sanders to run for governor when she announced in 2019 she was leaving the White House to return to her home state.9:05 p.m.Marjorie Taylor Greene has won the Republican nomination for U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Greene faced a legal challenge to her candidacy in the week’s leading up to the primary over allegations that the role she played in the Jan. 6 insurrection made her ineligible to run for federal office. A judge ruled she was eligible just days before the primary.8:30 p.m. Incumbent Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has won the Republican nomination for governor in Georgia. He faced a Trump-backed challenger in former U.S. Sen. David Perdue. Kemp drew Trump’s ire by refusing to accept his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. Perdue supporters expected a lopsided defeat but had hoped to force a run-off by keeping Kemp from getting more than 50% of the vote. Those efforts failed on Tuesday. Kemp will face Stacey Abrams in a replay of the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race, which Kemp won by just over 1%.7:57 p.m.Herschel Walker has won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Georgia’s primary election. Walker will face Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock in November, who also won his primary. 7:05 p.m.Democrat Stacey Abrams secured a place on the November ballot in Georgia’s high-stakes governor’s race on Tuesday as polls closed across the state, while a more competitive fight was playing out for the Republican nomination to lead one of the top political battlegrounds in the U.S.Related video above: Stacey Abrams holds primary day press conference in GeorgiaIn all, five states were voting, including Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Minnesota. But none had been more consumed than Georgia by Trump and his lie that the 2020 election was stolen.Abrams ran unopposed in the Democratic primary. But Trump personally recruited former Sen. David Perdue to primary incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, who drew Trump’s ire by refusing to accept his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. Kemp emerged as a powerful fundraiser who tapped into the benefits of incumbency. In the final days of the campaign, he unveiled plans for a $5.5 billion, 8,100-job Hyundai Motor plant near Savannah.Perdue’s allies were bracing for a lopsided defeat, the only question being whether Kemp would win the 50% majority he needed to avoid a runoff election next month.“We’re not going to have a runoff,” said Matha Zoller, a longtime Republican activist and northeast Georgia talk show host with ties to both Trump and Perdue. “It’s going to be embarrassing.”The results could raise questions about where power resides within the GOP. While Trump remains deeply popular among the party’s most loyal voters, the opening stage of the midterm primary season has shown they don’t always side with his picks. Other prominent Republicans, meanwhile, are growing increasingly assertive.
Five states voted Tuesday in primaries for November’s midterm elections.
Here’s the latest (all times eastern):
9:45 p.m.
Democrat Chris Jones will face Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders in November’s general election. Jones won the Democratic nomination for governor in Tuesday’s Arkansas primary election.
9:30 p.m.
Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has won the Republican nomination for governor in Arkansas after a campaign where she focused primarily on national issues and criticizing President Joe Biden.
Sanders defeated former talk radio host and podcaster Doc Washburn, who mounted a longshot bid for the GOP nomination in Tuesday’s primary. Five Democrats were also seeking their party’s nomination for governor in Tuesday’s primary.
Sanders was endorsed by her former boss, former President Donald Trump, and shattered fundraising records since entering the race last year. Sanders, the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee, blanketed the state with ads targeting Biden on issues like inflation and vowing to fight the “radical left.”
She’s running to succeed outgoing Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is barred by term limits from seeking reelection and is considering a run for president in 2024.
Trump had publicly encouraged Sanders to run for governor when she announced in 2019 she was leaving the White House to return to her home state.
9:05 p.m.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has won the Republican nomination for U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Greene faced a legal challenge to her candidacy in the week’s leading up to the primary over allegations that the role she played in the Jan. 6 insurrection made her ineligible to run for federal office. A judge ruled she was eligible just days before the primary.
8:30 p.m.
Incumbent Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has won the Republican nomination for governor in Georgia. He faced a Trump-backed challenger in former U.S. Sen. David Perdue. Kemp drew Trump’s ire by refusing to accept his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. Perdue supporters expected a lopsided defeat but had hoped to force a run-off by keeping Kemp from getting more than 50% of the vote. Those efforts failed on Tuesday.
Kemp will face Stacey Abrams in a replay of the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race, which Kemp won by just over 1%.
7:57 p.m.
Herschel Walker has won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Georgia’s primary election. Walker will face Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock in November, who also won his primary.
7:05 p.m.
Democrat Stacey Abrams secured a place on the November ballot in Georgia’s high-stakes governor’s race on Tuesday as polls closed across the state, while a more competitive fight was playing out for the Republican nomination to lead one of the top political battlegrounds in the U.S.
Related video above: Stacey Abrams holds primary day press conference in Georgia
In all, five states were voting, including Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Minnesota. But none had been more consumed than Georgia by Trump and his lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
Abrams ran unopposed in the Democratic primary. But Trump personally recruited former Sen. David Perdue to primary incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, who drew Trump’s ire by refusing to accept his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. Kemp emerged as a powerful fundraiser who tapped into the benefits of incumbency. In the final days of the campaign, he unveiled plans for a $5.5 billion, 8,100-job Hyundai Motor plant near Savannah.
Perdue’s allies were bracing for a lopsided defeat, the only question being whether Kemp would win the 50% majority he needed to avoid a runoff election next month.
“We’re not going to have a runoff,” said Matha Zoller, a longtime Republican activist and northeast Georgia talk show host with ties to both Trump and Perdue. “It’s going to be embarrassing.”
The results could raise questions about where power resides within the GOP. While Trump remains deeply popular among the party’s most loyal voters, the opening stage of the midterm primary season has shown they don’t always side with his picks. Other prominent Republicans, meanwhile, are growing increasingly assertive.