What Went Down During The June 28 Primary Elections

As I wrote earlier tonight, female candidates arguably get a small boost in political environments where “women’s issues” are top of mind, largely because they are seen as more competent on those issues than men. Of course, whether renewed attention to abortion rights is helping women tonight is difficult to know, but it’s something to keep an eye on throughout this primary season and in November. Thus far in primaries, the GOP continues to lag behind Democrats when it comes to nominating women, but that’s typical. Perhaps more interesting is that the GOP is lagging behind their 2020 numbers — according to the Center for American Women in Politics, Republican women are 18 percent of their party’s House nominees compared with 23 percent in 2020, and 7 percent of their Senate nominees compared with 26 percent in 2020. Tonight, although their overall win record is low, in at least one key race a Republican woman did well. As Maggie covered, Esther Joy King is the projected winner in Illinois’s 17th District, where she will get to run against a Democrat in an open primary, thanks to a retirement. And Republicans will nominate Heidi Ganahl for Colorado governor, to face favored incumbent Jared Polis. In Illinois’s 11th District, Catalina Lauf is leading, as is Regan Deering in Illinois’s 13th District, however, according to Cook Political Report, both of these districts favor Democrats.

How Republican women are doing tonight

Women running for Senate, House and governor and their results in Republican primaries and runoffs in Colorado, Illinois, Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma and Utah, as of 10:43 p.m. Eastern

Candidate	Office	% Reporting	Vote Share	Status
Heidi Ganahl	CO Gov.	80%	53.1%	✓ Won
Jennifer Qualteri	CO-01	40	100.0	✓ Won
Lauren Boebert*	CO-03	95	64.1	✓ Won
Rebecca Keltie	CO-05	83	12.6	✗ Lost
Laurel Imer	CO-07	84	15.6	Trailing
Barbara Kirkmeyer	CO-08	53	40.9	Leading
Jan Kulmann	CO-08	53	22.8	Trailing
Lori A. Saine	CO-08	53	19.6	Trailing
Kathy Salvi	IL Sen.	60	30.8	Leading
Peggy Hubbard	IL Sen.	60	23.7	Trailing
Philanise White	IL-01	67	5.7	Trailing
Ashley Ramos	IL-02	46	28.8	Trailing
Malgorzata McGonigal	IL-05	59	44.7	Trailing
Niki Conforti	IL-06	67	10.8	Trailing
Catherine A. O’Shea	IL-06	67	9.9	Trailing
Karen Kolodziej	IL-08	54	17.7	Trailing
Catalina Lauf	IL-11	49	28.7	Leading
Susan L. Hathaway-Altman	IL-11	49	12.3	Trailing
Cassandra Tanner Miller	IL-11	49	7.2	Trailing
Andrea Heeg	IL-11	49	7.0	Trailing
Regan Deering	IL-13	55	35.3	Leading
Jaime Milton	IL-14	64	10.3	Trailing
Mary Miller*	IL-15	95	57.1	✓ Won
JoAnne Guillemette	IL-16	59	13.1	✗ Lost
Esther Joy King	IL-17	53	71.2	✓ Won
Joan Farr	OK Sen.	61	5.8	✗ Lost
Laura Moreno	OK Sen. (special)	61	1.8	Trailing
Jessica Jean Garrison	OK Sen. (special)	61	1.7	Trailing
Moira McCabe	OK Gov.	61	3.3	✗ Lost
Pamela Gordon	OK-02	87	3.0	Trailing
Rhonda Hopkins	OK-02	87	1.7	Trailing
Stephanie Bice*	OK-05	49	67.8	✓ Won
Subrina Banks	OK-05	49	32.2	✗ Lost
Becky Edwards	UT Sen.	61	32.9	✗ Lost
Ally Isom	UT Sen.	61	8.4	✗ Lost
Tina Cannon	UT-01	54	14.9	✗ Lost
Erin Rider	UT-02	56	32.8	✗ Lost

ABC News is reporting that Rep. Lee Zeldin is the projected winner of the GOP nomination for governor of New York. Andrew Giuliani didn’t do all that well in the end.

Latest count in New York’s GOP primary for governor

Results of New York’s Republican primary for governor, as of 10:41 p.m. Eastern

Candidate	Votes	Vote %
Lee Zeldin	133,467	42.6%
Andrew Giuliani	74,269	23.7
Rob Astorino	59,625	19.0
Harry Wilson	45,834	14.6

Interestingly, it looks like the most successful Republican primary challenges in Utah tonight were from the left.