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Republican voters in Alabama favor Senate candidate with former president Donald TrumpSupport in a primary runoff Tuesday on one of Trump’s first and most loyal supporters, settling a feud that has rocked the political and right-wing media worlds in recent weeks.
in neighboring GeorgiaHowever, Republican voters once again rebuffed Trump – this time ignoring his support for secure GOP House seats in the Congressional primary runoff.
Tuesday’s polls also set up matchups for several major House races in Virginia and Georgia. And in Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser won his Democratic primary and is now set to win a third term.
Here are four takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries and runoff in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia and Washington, DC:
Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama had the support of Fox’s prime-time lineup, a group of conservative activists, sans Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, several conservative House members, and more in Alabama’s Republican primary runoff. Retired Sen. Richard Shelby.
But he lost Trump. The former president had backed Brooks, only to later rescind it and then eventually return Britt to the runoff, when it became clear she was the frontrunner.
And on Tuesday, Britt – and Trump – prevailed, CNN speculated.
Britt, a former Shelby chief of staff who went on to lead Alabama’s Business Council, and Brooks, a six-term congressman and member of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, finished in the top two of the state’s May primary. they were finished. To proceed to the runoff.
Brooks’ strong performance last month was somewhat of a surprise. Trump said he had rescinded his support as Brooks urged Republican voters to move ahead with the 2020 election to focus on 2022 and 2024 — a mortal sin for Trump, who has been raving about past election fraud. I continue to spread lies. But Trump left Brooks out, too, while Congressman was lagging behind in the election.
Now, Britt is the prohibitive favorite against Democrat Will Boyd in November’s election in the dark red state.
Weeks after Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger backed Trump from previous Republican primary challengers, who are still outraged over their rejection of their lies about election fraud in 2020, Georgia GOP voters backed two former presidents. and rejected the candidates. Congressional primary runoff on Tuesday, according to CNN estimates.
Rich McCormick, an emergency room physician and retired Marine, will win the Republican nomination for Georgia’s Sixth District, defeating Jake Evans, a Trump-backed attorney for the metro Atlanta district, on Tuesday.
And Mike Collins, a businessman and the son of the late Representative Mac Collins, defeated Democrat-turned-Republican former Vernon Jones, who was backed by Trump, in Georgia’s 10th District. Jones, a longtime Trump ally, initially sought to run against Kemp in the gubernatorial primary. Trump engineered his departure from that race, clearing the way for former Sen. David Perdue to become Kemp’s Trump-backed challenger, while the former president backed Jones in the House race he lost on Tuesday. (Purdue lost his race to Kemp in May.)
Still, while Trump’s favorite candidate lost, his brand of politics won out: McCormick ran as a MAGA-style conservative, and Collins embraced Trump’s election lies.
After winning the Democratic primary Tuesday, Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser is now sure to become the first DC mayor to win a third term, as Marion Barry did in 1986. (Barry would eventually serve four non-consecutive terms.)
Bowser defeated DC council members Robert White and Traian White and 2018 mayoral candidate James Butler in a race focused on violent crime. Bowser said she would increase the size of the DC police force. The nation’s capital is heavily democratic, so the party’s primary effectively determines the winner of the mayoral race.
Tuesday’s polls also set up the matchup for several competitive house races.
Virginia Republicans defeated State Sen. Jane Keegans in Virginia Beach’s 2nd District for Democratic Rep. Rape. Elaine Luria, in what is expected to be one of the most competitive house races in the country, CNN estimated. Keegans, who was nominated by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy-aligned Super PAC and New York Rep. Alice Stefnik’s political outfit, as well as the National Rifle Association, was the favorite against far-right businessman Jerome Bell in Tuesday’s primary.
The Virginia GOP also selected Yesli Vega, a Prince William County supervisor and an assistant sheriff’s deputy, who was supported by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, conservative activist and wife of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. . Democratic Rep. in Northern Virginia. A wide-open primary for Abigail Spanberger’s 7th District seat.
National Republican hopes in the second district of southwest Georgia, represented for three decades by Democratic Rep. Sanford Bishop but seen as more competitive after last year’s redeployment, the 28-year-old graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point Jeremy was on the hunt. and a plurality black and a black candidate in a rural district. But CNN estimated Tuesday that Hunt lost to Chris West, 38, a lawyer and former Georgia Air National Guard officer who is White.