What Went Down During The May 17 Primary Elections

Kentucky had a 90-minute head start on North Carolina, and yet still only 8 percent of the expected vote is reporting in Kentucky’s 3rd District. (Meanwhile, several North Carolina races have already been called.) In that safely blue Louisville district, McGarvey is leading Scott 66 percent to 34 percent, which, if it holds, would be a win for the Democratic establishment.

These two maps of Philadelphia — one from the City Commissioners showing the Democratic Senate primary vote so far, the other from Social Explorer showing the share of Black residents in each census tract — illustrate that Malcom Kenyatta is running strong in Philadelphia’s Black neighborhoods. Even with Fetterman’s strength statewide, his performance in Black communities is a key question given a 2013 incident in which he pulled a shotgun on a Black jogger — and the potential for that to be part of GOP attacks in the run-up to November.

In PA-17 there are two Democrats trying for the nomination to win Lamb’s seat, Chris Deluzio and Sean Meloy. Deluzio is a Navy veteran who served in Iraq and has worked at the Brennan Center for Justice and the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security. Meloy is an LGBTQ+ rights activist who has served on the Pennsylvania Commission on LGBTQ Affairs. Meloy has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC, and it will be important to see whether and how the abortion issue may motivate Democratic voters tonight.