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What to watch in Tuesday elections: How $100M beat a Trump endorsement
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Key Points:
- Rick Jackson spent over $100 million of his own money to defeat Trump-endorsed Burt Jones in the Georgia Republican gubernatorial runoff, highlighting that Trump’s endorsement is influential but not unbeatable when large funding is involved.
- Trump’s endorsements had mixed results in recent primaries: his pick won the Alabama U.S. Senate runoff and advanced in Oklahoma’s governor race but lost in Iowa’s gubernatorial primary.
- In Alabama, Trump-backed insider candidate Barry Moore defeated outsider Jared Hudson in the Senate primary, demonstrating Trump’s influence within the Republican establishment.
- The D.C. mayoral race features democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George, with Trump threatening federal intervention if she wins; the race is complicated by D.C.’s new ranked choice voting system, potentially delaying results.
- Georgia Republicans chose Tim Fleming, less skeptical of the 2020 election results, over Vernon Jones, who embraced election fraud conspiracies, for secretary of state, while California’s special primary to replace Eric Swalwell saw progressive Aisha Wahab advance to the general election.
