Polls close in DC, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama; DC mayor wins nomination for third term
Polls close in DC, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama; DC mayor wins nomination for third term
June 22, 2022
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Raffensperger testified before the Jan. 6 committee in Washington Tuesday that investigations into fraud claims turned up nothing.
Amid the fraud claims, Nguyen ran on a platform of debunking false narratives. She’s criticized Raffensperger’s support for sweeping election overhauls passed last year by Republican state lawmakers.
— Chelsey Cox
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Trump pulls Senate endorsement of Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks
Polls close in Washington, D.C.
The polls closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Washington, D.C., where two-term Mayor Muriel Bowser is in a three-way race in the Democratic primary.
She is seeking a third term against competition from Robert White and Trayon White, two city council members who are not related.
Both challengers have criticized Bowser’s handling of crime in the city, while denying her requests for more police officers.
Bowser has been one of the leaders in D.C.’s fight for statehood and has also marched with social justice advocates, spending part of her first two terms squaring off against former President Donald Trump.
The winner of the Democratic primary will likely decide the mayoral race in the reliably blue capital city.
on the Jan. 6 committee investigating the 2021 attack on the Capitol and has cultivated a congressional identity as a centrist since flipping the district blue under its previous lines in 2018. She’s expected to face a tough challenge under the district’s new lines.
The 2nd District covers much of Virginia’s coast, including the city of Virginia Beach and the Eastern Shore.
— Associated Press
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Polls close in Virginia and Georgia
Polls have now closed in Virginia and Georgia, and officials should soon be reporting results in a slew of congressional and legislative primaries and runoffs.
Alabama, site of a high-profile Republican runoff for the U.S. Senate, is scheduled to close its polls at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
— David Jackson
When do the polls close?
The first states to close their polls Tuesday are Virginia and Georgia, at 7 p.m. ET.
There are no statewide or congressional races on Arkansas ballots Tuesday; the focus is on a number of GOP state legislature primary runoffs.
Most closely watched is a race in northern Arkansas, where two GOP state senators with more than 20 years of state legislature service between them will face off. State Sen. Bob Ballinger and former State Sen. Bryan King had just under 400 votes between them in the primary race, with King in the lead, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
-Ella Lee
blames Democrats for inflation and the economic pain Virginians are facing. Inflation fears pressure Democrats in Virginia House races. Could they be a bellwether?
retiring after 35 years in the chamber and his current stint as the ranking member on the Committee on Appropriations.
Former Business Council of Alabama President Katie Britt and Rep. Mo Brooks — who had, and then lost, Trump’s backing — emerged from the Republican primary May 24, but neither with enough votes to win outright.
Given the partisan lean of the state, whoever wins the runoff is likely to easily win election in November and join the Senate Republican conference. The winner will face Democrat Will Boyd in November.
— Dylan Wells
in the runoff for the Secretary of State’s office, which oversees elections in the state.
Zeigler is casting himself as the outsider candidate in the race and says he would be a “watchman” on the state’s election system. Allen, a former Pike County Probate Judge, is stressing his experience running elections and calls himself the only “lifelong” Republican in the race, an allusion to the fact Zeigler, like many other state Republicans, started his political life as a Democrat.
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endorsed two candidates in Georgia who will compete in runoff elections on Tuesday.
In the 6th Congressional District, Trump backed attorney Jake Evans, the son of his former ambassador to Luxembourg. Evans faces an uphill battle in the runoff after physician Rich McCormick led the primary in May. The seat was redistricted to be much more Republican, so whoever wins the runoff is on track to win in November.
In the 10th District, Trump backed former state Rep. Vernon Jones, who trailed trucking company owner Mike Collins in the primary. Jones is a former Democrat, who announced he was switching parties on Jan. 6. According to Fox News, Trump offered to endorse Jones if he dropped out of the gubernatorial primary.
-Dylan Wells
only the second mayor of D.C. to be elected for a third term.
City council members Robert White and Trayon White are both primarying Bowser after serving the last six years on the council. Both are to the left of Bowser on policing, and crime and public safety have been dominant themes in the election.
Whoever wins the primary on Tuesday is on track to win in November given the Democratic tilt of the district
— Dylan Wells
Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar declared winner in Texas recount
AUSTIN, Texas — A recount in Texas affirmed Democrat U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar as the winner Tuesday of his primary race against progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros, who had trailed by fewer than 200 votes following a runoff in May.
Cuellar, a nine-term congressman, defeated Cisneros by 289 votes, according to results of the recount announced by by the Texas Democratic Party.
The Associated Press had not previously declared a winner in the race because it had been too close to call.
It is the second time that Cisneros, a 29-year-old immigration attorney who once interned for Cuellar, has lost a challenge to her former boss, whose moderate record along Texas’ heavily Hispanic southern border has aligned him at times with Republicans on issues including abortion and guns.
— Associated Press
Alabama GOP primary for governor was four times costlier than 2018
The nine candidates seeking the GOP nomination for governor spent almost $26 million on the race this year, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Alabama Secretary of State’s office. The amount was four times the $6 million dropped in the lead-up to the 2018 primary.
The bulk of the expenditures came from the top three candidates: Gov. Kay Ivey, who spent $9.1 million; former Slovenian ambassador Lynda Blanchard, who spent $10.1 million, and businessman Tim James, son of former Gov. Fob James, who spent $4.5 million. Ivey’s expenditures were more than double the $4.2 million she reported spending in the 2018 GOP primary.
