Colorado, texas, Oklahoma, and Utah, held primaries on Tuesday, and with the help of mail-in balloting, and absentee ballots, these states are largely held seamless elections. The contests in these states that helped decide the nominees in, the center On race and head of competitive House districts, shaping the November matchups that will play a role in deciding which party controls the Congress. One other state — Kentucky — also the reported results from the primary, it’s held the last week; that is, New York city, we’re going to have to wait a little while longer, full-on results.
First up in Colorado, former Gov. John Hickenlooper defeated former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff by almost 20 points, 59.6 percent to 40.4 percent. Hickenlooper had been a the heavy favorite from when he first entered the race last summer, but the the number of missteps in recent weeksthe ratio saying “every life matters”, in response to a question on what the ” Black Lives, and by no means Matter to him, it gave Romanoff a possible opening. Romanoff tried to run to Hickenlooper”s left by embracing a progressive agenda — including support for the Green New Deal, which Hickenlooper opposes — but his campaign just didn’t catch on. So now, Hickenlooper, who once said,“I’m not cut out to be a senator,” starts the general election campaign as a slight favorite against Republican Sen. Cory Gardner in a state that will likely back-Joe-Biden in November.
The GOP primary in Colorado”s 3rd Congressional District, which was more of a surprise, however, with The President Trump’s-backed candidate Rep Scott Tipton to losing restauranteur, Lauren Boebert by about 9 points, 54.6 percent to 45.4 percent. Counter girl at the Tipton, and is now the fourth House incumbent to lose renomination this year, and his defeat could make this a Republican-leaning seat — Trump, won it by 12 points by the year 2016, according to Daily Kos Elections highly competitive in November. Boebert ran to the right of the counter girl at the Tipton, drawing on her background as a gun-rights activist (she runs to the restaurant where servers are allowed to openly carry firearms). But she’s raised very little money so far, and has attracted controversy for her views on QAnonthe far-right movement labeled a domestic terrorist threat by the FBI last year of high school promotes the false conspiracy theories. So Boebert may struggle to turn her upset primary victory into a real-wheel drive in the general election. Democrats have nominated former state Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, hoping that she can win after to losing the Tipton by 8 points in the year 2018.
Next door in Utah, the marquee race was the GOP primary for governor, and it lived up to the hype — the of 8, a. m., the eastern, there is still the call. Lt. The govt. Spencer Cox, which narrowly leads former Gov. Jon Huntsman by around 3 points, 37.0 percent to 34.3 percent, and former state House Speaker Greg Hughes in third with 20.7 percent. We may not know the final outcome for a few days, either. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, voters could postmark their ballots on Election Day normally they have to do so the day before — counties-and – are quarantining the mail ballots for 24 hours, before counting them, so as a last-minute votes, I won’t be immediately counted as they arrive. But regardless of who wins — Defence or If the victor will almost certainly be the next governor in this strongly Republican state.
Down the ballot in Utah, in the crowded 1st Congressional District Republican primary, so it’s uncalled for the businessman, Blake Moore. holds a razor-thin edge over a Davis County Commissioner, Bob Stevenson, 30.2 percent to 29.6 percent. And, similar to the gubernatorial contest, the winner of this primary will also likely win the deep network that the seat in November. There was less drama in the Utah”s 4th Congressional District GOP race, however, where, former NFL player Burgess Owens defeated state Rep., Kim Coleman, and two of the other candidates, winning 44 percent of the vote in the based on partial results. Owen will now face the Democratic Republic of Ben McAdams in a competitive but traditionally a Republican-leaning seat in November, where the election handicappers give McAdams a small early advantage.
In Oklahoma, the main event of the evening was a ballot measure on whether to to expand Medicaid. The final margin was a slim 50.5 percent to 49.5 percent voted in favor, but with its passage, at least 200,000 more Oklahomans will now be eligible for Medicaid benefits. Just 13 states you have to not to the now expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. You Oklahoma”s most notable race of the evening, the Republican primary in the 5th Congressional District — no candidate won a majority of these, so there will be now in the an Oct. 25 run-off between businesswoman Terry Software the and state Sen. on Stephanie’s Bike. The Democratic Republic Kendra’s Horn, is an endangered Democrat, too, having pulled off an upset victory in the year 2018 in the seat to Trump, carried by as many as 13 points at the end of 2016. So, either Software Bike, or will likely find themselves in a competitive race with a Horn. Either Software or the Bike would help the GOP increase its slim share of women representatives, too. At present, only 13 one of the 197 Republicans in the House are women of color.
Kentucky also reported results yesterday after the delaying the full release of the returns from its June 23 in the primary because of a number of the huge absentee ballots, and in its marquee race, the Democratic primary for the u.s. Senate, the final results showed a very close race. The Little fighter pilot and the 2018 congressional candidate dr Amy McGrath only narrowly edged out progressive state Rep., Charles Booker, about by 3 points, 45.4 percent to 42.6 percent. McGrath was able to hold on despite Booker”s surge in the final days of the campaign, but the update is worth considering $41 million she has raised ahead of the primary, her showing was-a-bit-underwhelming. She now heads to the general election as a significant underdog against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
As for New York, the other state with the delayed June 23 in the primary count, we’ll have to wait a bit longer results ” you are. Election officials there said I won’t begin counting absentee ballots until todayand some counting will be delayed until after the July 4 holiday weekend. This leaves a number of important Democratic House primaries in doubt for a little while longer.
But overall, the June 30 primaries seem to have avoided any major hiccups. Colorado and Utah both have traditions of vote-by-mail electionsso they were well-equipped to hold a primary-in-the-midst-of-the-coronavirus pandemic. They also took the additional precautions like ballot quarantining in Utah. Oklahoma still relied heavily on in-person voting, but they took a number of precautionary measures, such as the social distancing and personal protective equipment at both polling places. The state board of elections also sit-out record number of absentee ballots. It’s unclear how this would scale, that is, November or work elsewhere, but at least there were some signs on Tuesday that the election in the midst of a public health crisis can be held successfully.
