Gun safety activist Maxwell Alejandro Frost has expanded his lead in safely blue #FL10. 76% of estimated vote in, he's beating state Sen. Randolph Bracy 34-25; ex-Reps. Alan Grayson and Corrine Brown at 16 and 10.
#FL11 is TIGHT. 71% of estimated vote in, Webster leads Loomer 47.8-47.7, margin of 95 VOTES.
Two of #FL11's four counties, Orange and Polk, aren't reporting anything. If Loomer's strength is confided to The Villages, gives Webster breathing room. If not ...
66% of estimated vote in for #FL15 Dem primary, 2020 nominee Alan Cohn leads 35-22. Trump would have won suburban Tampa seat only 51-48.
Despite an early scare, Anna Paulina Luna now leads 44-34 in GOP primary for #FL13 with 87% of estimated vote in. Dems fielding former DoD official Eric Lynn in newly-GOP gerrymandered St. Pete seat.
And now Laura Loomer has a 123-vote lead with 70% of estimated vote in. Still nothing from Orange or Polk counties. #FL11
Polls have closed in the remainder of Florida and for Oklahoma runoffs. Big races to watch are GOP primaries in #FL01, #OKSEN, and #OK02
The AP has called #FLGOV Dem primary for Rep. Charlie Crist. He'll go up against incumbent Ron DeSantis, who holds a massive $132 million war chest.
Loomer's lead now at 81 VOTES with 73% of estimated vote in. Mostly waiting on Orange County, which includes some of Webster's LONGTIME territory.
Florida's official site is ahead of the AP, and Orange County looks like it's saved Webster. With 83,000 votes counted in #FL11, he's up 51-44 floridaelectionwatch.gov/ContestResults…
Matt Gaetz so far surviving the political fallout of the sex trafficking investigation. With 17% of estimated vote in, he leads wealthy bizman Mark Lombardo 62-31 #FL01
If Lombardo loses, it won't be because he was too nice. He ran ads speculating, without evidence, that Gaetz is Mar-a-Lago leaker. businessinsider.com/matt-gaetzs-op…
AP calls #FL23 Dem primary for Broward County Commissioner Jared Moskowitz, who was frontrunner from the jump. Will be favorite to succeed retiring Rep. Ted Deutch in 56-43 Biden seat.
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Hero of the night is looking like @votevets. They spent $500,000 to help Pat Ryan in #NY19 and were the only Dem group to really get involved in terms of independent expenditures
No AP call in #NY23 GOP primary yet, but NBC has called it for state party chair Nick Langworthy. Black eye for Elise Stefanik, #3 in the House GOP, who endorsed racist Carl Paladino—a move that led other House GOP leaders to claim she'd "gone rogue"! nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
The DCCC did run a joint ad with Ryan (it seemed like a so-called "hybrid" ad, where costs are split), but it's not clear how much the cmte spent on it axios.com/2022/08/10/new…
The AP has called #FL11 GOP primary for Rep. Dan Webster. The longest-serving state legislator in FL history and its first GOP state House speaker since Reconstruction turns back far-right activist Laura Loomer in shockingly tight contest.
Over in GOP primary for open and dark red #OK02, former state Sen. Josh Brecheen leads state Rep. Avery Frix 54.5-45.5. Group affiliated with Club for Growth spent heavily for Brecheen, a former Club fellow.
AP calls #FL13 GOP primary for Trump's candidate, 2020 nominee Anna Paulina Luna. She'll face former DoD official Eric Lynn in seat GOP gerrymandered into 53-46 Trump.
Polls have closed in most of Florida, where a huge amount of votes usually start coming in early; Oklahoma is at 8 PM ET/ 7 local time, New York 9 ET. We'll be liveblogging the results and tweeting here dailykos.com/stories/2022/8…
This is the biggest U.S. election night from now till November. Check out our cheat sheet for what to follow! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
#AZ06: Juan Ciscomani takes 48-20 lead with 53% of estimated GOP vote in. For Dems, former state Sen. Kirsten Engel leads state Rep. Daniel Hernandez 61-34 with 65% of estimated vote in. Biden would have won new seat just 49.3-49.2
57% of estimated vote in for #WA03 top-two. Dem Marie Perez at 32%, pro-impeachment Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler leads Trump-backed Joe Kent 25-20.
Over in #WA04 top-two, pro-impeachment Rep. Dan Newhouse at 27. Dem Doug White leads Trump's guy, Loren Culp 26-22 for second.
Meijer takes a 50.5-49.5 lead with 55% of estimated vote in thanks to more votes out of his Kent County base. Again, not getting a winner for a while. #MI03
We're minutes from a LOT of results out of Arizona and Washington, though more votes will be tallied in both states over the coming days.
AP calls GOP primary for red #MO04 for Mark Alford, a former TV anchor in Kansas City.
NO side leads in Kansas 66-34 with 45% of AP's estimated vote in. Much of populous Johnson County; no side up 72-28 with 70% reporting there; Laura Kelly got 55% there in 2018.
The AP has called #MIGOV GOP primary for Tudor Dixon. The conservative commentator was an also-ran until 5 opponents thrown off ballot, now GOP's nominee in huge race against Dem Gretchen Whitmer.
Latest votes were bad for Kobach. With 34% of estimated vote in, state Sen. Kellie Warren leads him 40-37 in GOP #KSAG primary.