In Tuesday’s primaries, one of the most progressive House incumbents lost in New York, one of the country’s most conservative House incumbents won by switching districts in Colorado and a moderate Republican trounced the rest of Utah’s Senate primary field, including a candidate backed by former President Trump.
The progressive wing of the Democratic Party suffered a major blow when Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) lost by 17 points to Westchester County executive George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist running in the most expensive House primary ever. Meanwhile, Trump’s near-perfect endorsement track record this cycle took a hit almost everywhere, while Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a Freedom Caucus firebrand, all but ensured her survival in Congress in November.
You do not need a campaign ad to tell you who George Latimer is; you have seen who I am,” Latimer said Tuesday night. “I have never seen an election as a blank check. It is a promissory note from me to you.”
Bowman, a member of the far-left House “squad,” lost the primary amid a storm of controversy that included criticism of his representation of his district, his anti-Israel positions after the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7 and the staggering $14.5 million spent by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its affiliated super PAC to defeat him.
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Boebert is expected to take on Ike McCorkle, the likely Democrat winner in the conservative Colorado 4th Congressional District. Trump won there by 19 points in 2020, making Boebert the heavy favorite to win.
Establishment-backed Republican candidate Jeff Hurd won the GOP primary for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.
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In Utah’s GOP primary in a race to succeed retiring Senate Republican Mitt Romney, Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah) cleared a field of four. He will be a heavy favorite to succeed Romney.
Also in Utah, Gov. Spencer Cox (R) won the state’s GOP gubernatorial primary, defeating Phil Lyman, pardoned by Trump in 2020 and the favorite of the Utah GOP earlier this year.
Find all of Tuesday’s primary results, including in South Carolina, at The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s Election Center HERE.
