What Went Down During The May 24 Primary Elections
In Arkansas, I find it interesting that Jake Bequette is only slightly outpacing Jan Morgan in the GOP primary. Bequette ran a full campaign and got millions of dollars in outside support from GOP mega-donor Dick Uihlein. Morgan had basically no money but is just 3.5 points behind him. She did win 30 percent in the GOP gubernatorial primary in 2018, though, so maybe this is a regression for her.
Latest count in Arkansas’s GOP primary for Senate
Results of Arkansas’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, as of 10:11 p.m. Eastern
| Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
|---|---|---|
| John Boozman* | 74,571 | 58.3% |
| Jake Bequette | 27,546 | 21.5 |
| Jan Morgan | 23,003 | 18.0 |
| Heath Loftis | 2,847 | 2.2 |
In the GOP primary for Minnesota’s 1st District special election, we’ve got 9 percent of the vote counted, and so far it looks to be a two-man race between former U.S. Department of Agriculture official Brad Finstad and state Rep. Jeremy Munson. Perhaps not so coincidentally, these are the two candidates who received support from outside groups: $1.5 million for Munson from a Sen. Rand Paul-affiliated Super PAC and the House Freedom Caucus, and $1.2 million for Finstad from the cryptocurrency-backed American Dream Federal Action. Finstad was also backed by $900,000 from the more moderate Republican group Defending Main Street.
Latest count in Minnesota’s 1st District special GOP primary
Results of the Republican primary for the Aug. 9 special election in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, as of 10:09 p.m. Eastern
| Candidate | Votes | Vote % |
|---|---|---|
| Brad Finstad | 1,838 | 52.6% |
| Jeremy Munson | 1,071 | 30.7 |
| Jennifer Carnahan | 221 | 6.3 |
| Matt Benda | 187 | 5.4 |
| Nels Pierson | 62 | 1.8 |
| Kevin Kocina | 60 | 1.7 |
| Bob Carney | 20 | 0.6 |
| J.R. Ewing | 14 | 0.4 |
| Ken Navitsky | 12 | 0.3 |
| Roger Ungemach | 9 | 0.3 |