What Went Down In The Arizona, Florida And Illinois Primaries

In the marquee down-ballot contest of the night — only Illinois has them — the 3rd Congressional District Democratic primary has a few votes in. So far, Rep. Dan Lipinski leads Marie Newman, his more liberal challenger, 52 percent to 41 percent, in what is a rematch of the 2018 primary there that Lipinski only won 51 percent to 49 percent. But unlike two years ago, there are also a couple also-rans in this year’s primary, which might hurt Newman if she’s attracting anti-incumbent votes.

To add to Perry’s argument, voting by mail is logistically complicated and expensive, and it can be hard for a state with no experience to switch to it on such short notice as the coronavirus is requiring. You actually just saw this in Maryland, where a special congressional election on April 28 will move to entirely vote-by-mail, but there was not the manpower to conduct a statewide presidential primary entirely by mail, so the governor was forced to delay that election until June 2.