Tuesday night’s marquee election, the Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary, goes to the wire, but subsequent races were decided, setting up a general election for the fall.
Here’s a rundown of the winners and losers of some of the major competitions:
Mehmet Oz, Dave McCormick and Kathy Barnette race in Pennsylvania is too close to mention, despite Trump approval
The expensive Republican Senate race in Pennsylvania, between Dr. Mehmet Oz, the famous television doctor, and Dave McCormick, the wealthy leader of a hedge fund, are nail-biting close. Neither candidate relented and an official recount is likely.
Both Dr. Oz as Mr. McCormick are rich, have lived in other states for years, and have spent millions attacking each other. Although former President Donald J. Trump Dr. Oz, the race was extremely tight with thousands of ballots submitted due to be counted from Wednesday.
Another candidate, 2020 author and election denier Kathy Barnette, rose to an unexpectedly strong third place, in part by establishing herself as the more authentic MAGA candidate. Ms. Barnette, who for years held publicly homophobic and anti-Islamic views, also benefited from a belated advertising campaign by the influential anti-tax group Club for Growth.
Doug Mastriano, an election denier, won a Republican primary for governor in Pennsylvania
Doug Mastriano, a retired state colonel and senator who has promoted numerous false claims about the 2020 election and attended the protest ahead of the Capitol riots, won the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania governor.
Defeating a crowded field of challengers, he was energized late in the race and was energized just a few days ago by Mr. Trump. He will face Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania Attorney General who emerged unopposed from the Democratic primary for governor.
Mr. Shapiro’s victory lap on Tuesday was cut short. Earlier that day, he announced that he had tested positive for the corona virus with mild symptoms and that he would go into isolation.
With Mr. Mastriano’s victory, Republicans will now try to win a battlefield with a central figure in a bid to nullify the 2020 election results.
John Fetterman Got Hours Before He Won Pennsylvania Democratic Senate Primary
John Fetterman, the lieutenant governor, suffered a stroke on Friday and a pacemaker on Tuesday, keeping him off the campaign trail in the final days of the race.
In November, he will try to help Democrats secure a key Senate seat vacated by Republican Patrick J. Toomey, a fiscal conservative who occasionally broke with his party.
Mr. Fetterman dominated the race, wearing a uniform of sweatshirts and shorts while tapping into voters’ frustration with Washington. In the primary, he defeated Deputy Conor Lamb, a moderate who some say could appeal to white workers the party has been losing for years, and Malcolm Kenyatta, a young state legislator and rising star in the party who just got married. two months ago.
Ted Budd, anointed by Trump, won North Carolina Republican Senate primaries in a runaway
Representative Ted Budd, who was backed by Mr Trump and the influential anti-tax group Club for Growth, won the Republican nomination for the Senate. Mr. Budd, who skipped all four debates in the race, defeated nine other candidates, including Pat McCrory, a former governor, and former Representative Mark Walker.
Cheri Beasley, former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and the first black woman to serve in that role, will face Mr. Budd after traveling to victory in the Democratic Senate primary. The outcome never seemed in doubt, with Democrats clearing the field of serious challengers to Ms. Beasley, who would become North Carolina’s first black senator if elected.
Republicans are done with Madison Cawthorn
Crumbling under the weight of repeated scandals and gaffes, Representative Madison Cawthorn was ousted Tuesday by Republican primary voters in western North Carolina, a stinging rejection of the Trump-approved candidate.
At about 10:30 p.m., Mr. Cawthorn hands the race to Mr. Edwards, who had gained the support of many prominent North Carolina Republicans, including Senator Thom Tillis.
Cawthorn, who entered Congress in 2020 as a rising star, has been beset by scandal, from falsely suggesting that his Republican colleagues routinely hold cocaine-fueled orgies, to being detained at an airport after trying to get a loaded gun through security. to get. Last month, after lecherous images of him surfaced online showing him wearing women’s lingerie as part of a cruise ship game, wrote on Twitter that “digging up stuff from my early twenties to smear me out is pathetic.”
A 26-year-old, unnamed Madison Cawthorn, won a North Carolina House primary with Trump’s help
Bo Hines, a 26-year-old political novice who entranced Mr. Trump and drew unavoidable comparisons to another North Carolinian — Mr. Cawthorn — catapulted to victory in the Republican primary for a House seat outside of Raleigh.
Mr. Hines, a former soccer phenom who was an All-American at North Carolina State University before transferring to Yale, topped seven other candidates in the 13th district primaries.
His victory is perhaps the boldest example of Mr Trump’s influence over the Republican party, with the former president backing Mr Hines in the newly-drawn tossup district in March. Mr. Hines was also backed by the Club for Growth, the influential anti-tax group.
Mr. Hines will face off against Wiley Nickel, a two-term senator and criminal defense attorney who has worked for President Barack Obama. He positioned himself as a forward who can work with people on both sides of the aisle.
Republican Governor of Idaho Knocked Down a Trump Insurgent: The Lieutenant Governor
Governor Brad Little of Idaho withstood a Republican primary challenge by Janice McGeachin, the lieutenant governor, who had been sanctioned by Mr. Trump and made headlines for defying Mr. Little’s pandemic orders.
Ms. McGeachin had tried to win over ultra-conservatives in the scarlet state Mr Trump overwhelmingly wore in 2016 and 2020. She’d played up a mutinous but short-lived ban on coronavirus mask mandates when Mr Little had briefly left the state.
But Ms. McGeachin seemed to get less than 30 percent of the vote in Idaho, which has separate primaries for governor and lieutenant governor — the genesis of the tense combination.
An incumbent Democrat foiled a far-left rival running for the House in Kentucky
In an open-seat race in Kentucky’s only blue House district, Democrats favored an incumbent candidate in Tuesday’s primary over a rival state legislator who ran far left and was a vocal leader of the police responsibility movement in Louisville .
The party favorite, Morgan McGarvey, the Democratic leader in the State Senate, defeated Attica Scott, a state representative, in the Third District. The two had competed for the successor to Deputy John Yarmuth, who was first elected in 2006 and is retiring. The chairman of the House Budget Committee, Mr. Yarmuth, is the only Kentucky Democrat in Congress.
