What Went Down During The May 24 Primary Elections

It should be clear by now that Trump’s endorsement doesn’t necessarily make you a favorite. Georgia shows that it can come up short both against well-established incumbents (like Kemp) and in open primaries (Georgia’s 6th and 10th) that are more fractured.

Tonight’s results are still coming into focus, but let’s check in on how Trump’s endorsement track record is faring. As we mentioned earlier on the live blog, Georgia is the real test of Trump’s strength tonight as he endorsed seven non-incumbent Republican candidates in Georgia’s GOP primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and attorney general.

And so far we know that Trump’s pick lost in the governor’s race, but won in the Senate primary. How are the other primaries where he’s weighed in shaping up for him?

Now is a good time to check in on how Republican women are doing tonight. As I wrote earlier, women make up 45 percent of the Democrats’ House nominees so far but just 19 percent of the Republicans’ nominees. And for Senate races, women are 14 percent of Democrats’ nominees, but no Republican women have won their party’s nomination yet. As we’ve written before, that’s in part because Republican women face more hurdles to earning their party’s nomination than Democratic women, including weaker networks and less financial support.

So far, Republican women aren’t doing great overall, but they are in some notable races. In the GOP Senate race in Alabama, former Business Council of Alabama President Katie Britt, who has support from VIEW PAC, Maggie’s List and Winning for Women, is leading with 44.4 percent of the vote share, but just 10 percent reporting. And I know we’ve been watching the Democrats’ runoff in Texas’s 28th District closely, but the GOP has a runoff there, too. That race is between two women, Cassy Garcia, who is leading, and Sandra Whitten. In Texas’s 37th District, another runoff, Jenny Garcia Sharon is leading.