What Went Down During The June 28 Primary Elections

With Newman’s projected loss to Casten in Illinois’s 6th District, it’s a good time to check in with tonight’s progressive-backed candidates. In Illinois’s 1st District, Sen. Sanders endorsed candidate, Jonathan Jackson, is leading, and in Illinois’s 3rd District, Delia Ramirez is the projected winner. In Illinois’s 7th District, the Sanders-backed progressive, Kina Collins, is trailing the Biden-backed incumbent, Danny Davis, but it’s close. And in Illinois’s 17th District, Litesa Wallace, who is endorsed by Indivisible and Our Revolution, is trailing meteorologist Eric Sorensen, but with only 33 percent of the expected vote reporting. In Illinois’s 8th District, Junaid Ahmed is trailing the incumbent, Raja Krishnamoorthi (Krishnamoorthi has raised over $6 million), and in the race for governor in New York, the Our Revolution endorsed Jumaane Williams has lost.

How progressives are doing tonight

Senate, House and governor candidates endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Indivisible, Justice Democrats, Our Revolution, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Sen. Bernie Sanders or the Sunrise Movement in Democratic primaries and runoffs in Colorado, Illinois, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah, as of 10:14 p.m. Eastern

Candidate	Office	% Reporting	Vote Share	Status
Joe Neguse*	CO-02	72%	100.0%	✓ Won
Jonathan L. Jackson	IL-01	67	28.8	Leading
Delia Ramirez	IL-03	67	65.4	✓ Won
Marie Newman*	IL-06	64	32.0	✗ Lost
Kina Collins	IL-07	65	46.1	Trailing
Junaid Ahmed	IL-08	41	28.1	Trailing
Litesa Wallace	IL-17	33	20.9	Trailing
Jumaane D. Williams	NY Gov.	54	21.0	✗ Lost

We’ve got about a quarter of the expected vote in Illinois’s 11th District Republican primary, and Lauf maintains her lead, 29 percent to 25 percent of her nearest competitor, Jerry Evans, a Christian musician who founded a music school.

With 20 percent of the expected vote in, Lee Zeldin has about a 15-point lead over Andrew Giuliani for the Republican nomination for New York governor. That said, whoever wins here is largely academic; Hochul will almost certainly defeat him.