This year’s congressional primaries looked to be tumultuous for both parties. Democrats are fielding three times as many candidates as they had in 2016. Republican incumbents, meanwhile, were worried that they’d face primary challengers if they antagonized President Trump’s supporters.
Slightly less than one-third of the incumbents seeking reelection have now had their primaries, or 125 out of 381. Unless the national mood changes radically over the next months, we’ve now seen enough primaries to get a sense of how the remaining primaries will play out. And that tells us a lot about the coming general election.
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Robert Boatright (Clark U.), Monkey Cage