What Went Down During The May 24 Primary Elections

ABC News projects that Rep. Lucy McBath has defeated fellow Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux in a member-versus-member Democratic primary battle in Georgia’s 7th District in suburban Atlanta. McBath will now be favored to win reelection in a seat where Georgia Republicans drew as a Democratic vote sink — it’s 16 points more Democratic than the country as a whole. But McBath’s victory does come with a cost for her party, as she chose to abandon the 6th District, which was redrawn as a strongly Republican seat she would not have held onto. As a result, Democrats will lose a seat in the Atlanta suburbs.

To your point, Jacob, Jan Morgan is a fairly recognizable figure in the state. I haven’t seen her run a traditional campaign or give a lot of interviews, but she may have felt she didn’t need to because she already has a following.

In the race for GOP nominee for governor in Alabama, 77-year-old Kay Ivey is currently leading in her bid for a second term with 56.8 percent of votes. Behind her is Lindy Blanchard, the former ambassador to Slovenia under President Trump, with 19 percent of the vote, and Tim James, whose dad is Fob James, Georgia’s governor from 1979 -1983 and again from 1995-1999. James (the son) has 16 percent of the vote currently:

And because it’s my main focus tonight, I’ll also note that Ivey said in a campaign ad that “fake news, Big Tech and blue state liberals stole the election from President Trump.”