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By The Associated Press<\/p>\n

An endorsement from President Donald Trump is worth a lot in Republican primaries. But is it worth more than $100 million in Georgia? Can it propel a congressman past an insurgent outsider in Alabama? Can it transform a candidate into a front-runner in Oklahoma?<\/p>\n

Read more Trump moves oversight of special education and civil rights from the Education Department<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump has been at the center of this year\u2019s midterm campaigns, and his influence will be tested in different ways Tuesday as four states and the District of Columbia hold primaries.<\/p>\n

Among Democrats, the primaries will hinge on longstanding divides between progressives and moderates as the party tries to chart the best path forward to November.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest:<\/p>\n

In Georgia, two original tea party organizers take different sides<\/h4>\n

Jenny Beth Martin and Debbie Dooley were on the front lines of the early tea party movement during Barack Obama\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n

In Georgia\u2019s GOP Senate runoff, they\u2019re on different sides. Each insists her candidate is the one to defeat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in the fall.<\/p>\n

Martin backs Rep. Mike Collins, a self-declared \u201cMAGA warrior\u201d with Trump\u2019s endorsement. Dooley supports first-time candidate Derek Dooley (no relation).<\/p>\n

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Martin says energizing the conservative base is necessary to protect Republican majorities that aren\u2019t populated with Republican \u201canti-Trumpers\u201d or \u201cliberals like Jon Ossoff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Debbie Dooley says Collins has too much baggage and hard-right ties to win. \u201cHe will drag down the whole Republican ticket in Georgia,\u201d she predicted. \u201cThis is about actually winning. It\u2019s not about just following Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Debbie Dooley and Martin have diverged before. In 2016, Dooley backed Trump from the start. Martin backed Ted Cruz for the GOP nomination.<\/p>\n

GOP candidates for Alabama Senate seat feud over military service<\/h4>\n

The closing days of the Senate runoff between U.S. Rep. Barry Moore and former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson have been marked by a heated back-and-forth over military service.<\/p>\n

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Some of Hudson\u2019s supporters have accused Moore, a three-term congressman, of inflating his military record.<\/p>\n

Moore served in the Alabama National Guard and U.S Army Reserves, and has often emphasized his veteran status. He ran an ad in 2020 saying he knows how to support veterans because he\u2019s been in combat boots.<\/p>\n

In a recent video, Moore called it a \u201cgarbage swamp tactic\u201d to suggest Guardsmen and reservists aren\u2019t veterans. He said he never claimed to have been in combat.<\/p>\n

The two are seeking the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who\u2019s running for governor.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s status as GOP kingmaker faces another test in Oklahoma<\/h4>\n

Trump\u2019s early backing of Republican Rep. Kevin Hern for the U.S. Senate seat previously held by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin kept other potential big challengers at bay in Oklahoma, which hasn\u2019t elected a Democratic senator since 1990.<\/p>\n

A bigger test may come in the crowded race to succeed outgoing Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt.<\/p>\n

Trump last month endorsed former state Sen. Mike Mazzei. Other prominent Oklahoma Republicans seeking the nomination include Attorney General Gentner Drummond, former Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall and Chip Keating, the state\u2019s former public safety director.<\/p>\n

District of Columbia\u2019s mayor shows up to vote<\/h4>\n

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser greeted supporters as she arrived to cast her primary vote at Shepard Park Elementary on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

This fall, current council members Janeese Lewis George and Kenyan McDuffie are the frontrunners vying to replace Bowser, who was elected in 2014.<\/p>\n

Runoffs for Georgia elections chief carry 2028 undertones<\/h4>\n

Georgia\u2019s secretary of state election is open for the first time since Trump\u2019s attempts to subvert the 2020 election, famously pressuring outgoing Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to \u201cfind 11,800 votes\u201d to overtake Democrat Joe Biden. Raffensperger refused.<\/p>\n

For his potential successor, Republicans are left to choose between an outright election denier, Vernon Jones, and a state lawmaker, Tim Fleming, who avoids explicitly disputing the president\u2019s 2020 election lies.<\/p>\n

Democrats will choose between Dana Barrett, a Fulton County commissioner, and Penny Brown Reynolds, a former state judge in Fulton County who also served in the Biden administration as deputy assistant secretary for civil rights for the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n

In Georgia Senate race, Collins supporter likes his immigration stance<\/h4>\n

Retired software engineer James Haddad emigrated from Jordan and became a U.S. citizen in 1983. He backs Rep. Mike Collins in Georgia\u2019s GOP Senate runoff because of Collins\u2019 hardline approach on immigration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m an immigrant, but I\u2019m a legal immigrant,\u201d Haddad said. \u201cJust follow the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collins hopes to defeat former football coach Derek Dooley and then draw contrasts on immigration with Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe congressman is a good American who puts America first,\u201d said Haddad, a 66-year-old from Woodstock.<\/p>\n

Collins sponsored the 2025 Laken Riley Act, named for a Georgia nursing student killed by a man in the U.S. illegally. The law requires immigrants charged with certain crimes to be held without bond.<\/p>\n

Ossoff voted against an initial version but backed it after Trump returned to power.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that some immigrants have ruined it for others,\u201d Haddad said.<\/p>\n

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is playing an insider-outsider game<\/h4>\n

The outgoing Republican governor passed on a Senate bid and recruited his former football coach Derek Dooley. Kemp\u2019s spent months saying it\u2019ll take an \u201coutsider\u201d to defeat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in November.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, until Sunday, Kemp sat out the Republican tussle to be his successor. That runoff pits the sitting lieutenant governor against a first-time candidate. Rick Jackson, a billionaire businessman, labels himself an \u201coutsider\u201d in his ads and plastered the word on his campaign tour bus.<\/p>\n

Yet Kemp opted for Burt Jones, the Capitol insider. Campaigning with Jones on Monday, Kemp said there\u2019s no contradiction in his message.<\/p>\n

His reasoning, essentially: Georgia state government has been run by Republicans for a generation and things are great, whereas in Washington, where Dooley would go, Congress is often deadlocked and has atrocious approval ratings. But Kemp did not note that Republicans have a trifecta with Trump as president and GOP majorities on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

Why are there 2 elections for Swalwell\u2019s California seat?<\/h4>\n

There\u2019s the regular race in November that will determine who\u2019ll be sworn in come January and serve a full, two-year term in the U.S. House.<\/p>\n

But since Swalwell resigned early following sexual assault allegations, there\u2019s also the special election that will decide who will serve out the rest of his current term until January.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s primary will decide the top two candidates for the special general election on August 18. But if one candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, they\u2019ll win outright and there won\u2019t be a general election.<\/p>\n

Sen. Ted Cruz says he\u2019s not trying to separate himself from Trump<\/h4>\n

The Texas senator has gotten more active on the Republican campaign circuit.<\/p>\n

In Republican governor\u2019s races in South Carolina and Georgia, Cruz finds himself on the opposing side from the president.<\/p>\n

Cruz was in Georgia ahead of Tuesday\u2019s runoff to stump for billionaire Rick Jackson. Trump backs Jackson\u2019s rival, Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones.<\/p>\n

Read more Indiana becomes the latest state to receive flexibility from Trump on federal education spending<\/a><\/p>\n

In the upcoming South Carolina runoff the GOP governor nomination, Cruz backs longtime state Attorney General Alan Wilson over Trump\u2019s pick, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette.<\/p>\n

Cruz, who finished second in Republicans 2016 presidential nominating fight, insisted he\u2019s not picking fights with Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot remotely,\u201d Cruz said Monday. He noted he and Trump have both endorsed former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu in his U.S. Senate bid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president and I agree on the vast majority of races,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cWhat I try to do in every race is endorse the strongest conservative who can win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rick Jackson says he\u2019s spending his own fortune to help people<\/h4>\n

Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson choked up a bit in the closing hours of his GOP runoff campaign explaining why he\u2019s spent nearly $100 million of his own money on the race.<\/p>\n

Jackson called his wealth \u201cGod\u2019s money\u201d that he directs \u201cthe best I can.\u201d And he compared his campaign spending to his years of philanthropy, especially to help children in foster care, where he spent part of his childhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want our kids, our foster kids and everybody else, to have hope, you know,\u201d he told a lunch crowd Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have lived in poverty,\u201d Jackson continued. \u201cWhen you, when you have not eaten, you never forget that you don\u2019t forget the people that are struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a stark contrast to Jackson\u2019s tone in some of his television ads, including a promise that migrants who are in Georgia illegally and commit crimes will be \u201cdeported or departed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why Tuesday\u2019s elections in Washington, DC, matter <\/h4>\n

Voters in the nation\u2019s capital are selecting party candidates for mayor and the district\u2019s delegate to Congress.<\/p>\n

Mayor Muriel Bowser, who isn\u2019t seeking reelection, has walked a fine line between staying in Trump\u2019s good graces and responding to the concerns of constituents, many of whom said she didn\u2019t push back hard enough on Trump\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

The district\u2019s long-serving congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, is also stepping down.<\/p>\n

The election is taking place as Washington undergoes major change under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Washington has limited autonomy and federal leaders retain significant control over local affairs, including the approval of the budget and laws passed by the D.C. Council.<\/p>\n

In Georgia, Trump\u2019s endorsements reflect his fixation on 2020<\/h4>\n

In 2020, a Georgia state senator named Burt Jones was part of Donald Trump\u2019s alternate Electoral College slate and backed the president\u2019s scheme to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Trump has referenced Jones\u2019 \u201cloyalty\u201d many times since, including when endorsing his bid for governor. Jones, now the lieutenant governor, faces billionaire businessman Rick Jackson in a Tuesday runoff for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n

\u201cBurt was strongly committed to my Campaign in 2016, 2020, and 2024, and worked tirelessly to help us WIN,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social on the eve of the runoff. \u201cHe has been with us from the very beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

A day earlier, Trump endorsed Rep. Mike Collins in a Senate runoff over former football coach Derek Dooley. The president chided Dooley for saying (months ago and not as a feature of his campaign) that Trump did indeed lose Georgia in 2020.<\/p>\n

Collins, meanwhile, has consistently echoed Trump\u2019s false claims of a \u201crigged\u201d election.<\/p>\n

Alabama GOP primary is latest test of Trump\u2019s endorsements<\/h4>\n

The president\u2019s endorsed candidates have mostly done well so far in the midterm primaries. But the open U.S. Senate race in Alabama will be another test of his endorsement power.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore, a three-term congressman, faces former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson in the GOP runoff. Trump endorsed Moore early in the campaign, but he\u2019s been forced into a heated race with Hudson, a political newcomer.<\/p>\n

Hudson, borrowing a page from Trump\u2019s original playbook, has tried to depict Moore as a political insider and has urged voters to send an outsider to Washington.<\/p>\n

Trump held a telephone rally for Moore last week.<\/p>\n

The candidates are seeking the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who\u2019s running for governor. The winner will face the Democratic nominee in November.<\/p>\n

2 open races set off a political scramble in heavily Republican Oklahoma<\/h4>\n

GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt is term-limited, and former U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin vacated his seat to replace Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary.<\/p>\n

Republican Alan Armstrong, an energy executive, is filling the U.S. Senate seat for now, but state law prohibits him from seeking a full term as an interim appointee.<\/p>\n

Rep. Kevin Hern, a four-term congressman endorsed by Trump, is running against four other candidates of lesser profile in the Republican Senate primary.<\/p>\n

The GOP primary for governor is more crowded, with nine names on the ballot, including several prominent Republicans. That could lead to an Aug. 25 runoff if no candidate receives at least 50% of the vote to win outright.<\/p>\n

California special election will fill former Rep. Eric Swalwell\u2019s term after his resignation<\/h4>\n

The Democrat stepped down in April following allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman twice, including when she worked for him, and other accusations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n

Swalwell was a leading candidate for California governor at the time and dropped out of the race the same month. He has denied the allegations and said he will defend himself.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Chronicle first reported that a woman accused Swalwell of sexually assaulting her in 2019 and again in 2024. She told the outlet that she had been too intoxicated to consent.<\/p>\n

Runoffs will decide GOP nominees for Senate and governor in Georgia<\/h4>\n

Tuesday\u2019s elections are needed after no Republican won a majority to clinch the nominations in the May primary.<\/p>\n

In the Senate race, Rep. Mike Collins, a second-term congressman who calls himself a \u201cMAGA warrior,\u201d and Derek Dooley, a first-time candidate and former football coach, are facing off. The winner will try to oust Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in a key November contest. Trump endorsed Collins on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The primary for governor pits Lt. Gov. Burt Jones against billionaire Rick Jackson. Trump endorsed Jones last August. The winner will face Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, in November.<\/p>\n

Polls now open in Washington, DC<\/h4>\n

Voting is underway in one of the city\u2019s most consequential primaries in a generation.<\/p>\n

Democrats in the nation\u2019s capital have not had a chance to vote for a new mayor and new delegate to Congress in the same election since 1990, when gas was cheaper than $1.35 a gallon and George H.W. Bush was president.<\/p>\n

Read more Trump\u2019s Iran deal greeted with skepticism and scrutiny on Capitol Hill<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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