6 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Primary Elections

Primary elections in four Republican-leaning states rattled Congress on Tuesday night, as voters ejected a sitting member of the House and set up intense campaigns for the Senate in several battlegrounds. Republicans averted a worst-case scenario — the nomination of an ex-convict coal baron in West Virginia — but faced […] Read more »

Ratings Changes: Senate, Governor, House: Both parties generally avoided bad choices in Tuesday’s primaries

Republican primary voters avoided a self-inflicted wound in West Virginia when disgraced coal baron Don Blankenship (R) finished third in the GOP Senate primary. Much else went as expected Tuesday night. Five ratings changes this week affect races for Senate, governor, and House, but most importantly broaden the Senate playing […] Read more »

Primary elections: Blankenship loses in W.Va.; Pittenger concedes in North Carolina

Republican voters rallied behind candidates aligned with President Trump and party leaders in a trio of pivotal Senate primaries Tuesday, reinvigorating the GOP’s bid to hold and possibly expand on its majority in midterm elections. … Trump’s unpopularity in the suburbs and exurbs where Republicans have built their House majority […] Read more »

GOP primaries gauge the anti-establishment fervor Trump helped unleash

Republican primary voters in West Virginia and Indiana are set to shape the future of Donald Trump’s anti-establishment political revolt on Tuesday, while testing the president’s own ability to steer the passions he helped unleash. … “That dynamic that elected Donald Trump that I thought was going to dissipate after […] Read more »