What Went Down During The June 28 Primary Elections

The AP has projected that Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell has defeated Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo in the GOP runoff for Mississippi’s 4th District. Ezell will be almost certain to win in November and become the district’s new congressman.

As some more Election Day votes have come in from Nebraska’s 1st District special election, Republicans have made up some ground. Pansing Brooks, the Democrat, now leads Flood, the Republican, by about 5 points with 42 percent reporting. Most of the outstanding vote is in fairly red rural counties, too.

We’re just up to 50 percent of the expected vote in the Republican primary for Illinois’s 6th District, and Pekau continues to lead Grasso by a sizable amount. Pekau has 44 percent of the vote and Grasso has 24 percent. The other six candidates are much further behind. Whoever wins will go up against Casten in the fall.