All Eyes on California on the Biggest Primary Night of 2018

In all, eight states are holding primaries Tuesday. He defeated Sam Fiocchi, Hirsh Singh and Robert Turkavage.

Jeanne Watkins of Clovis said Nunes has her support.

It was a different story in MS, where 66-year-old Gladys Cruz wasn’t sure which Republican she would support in the state’s Senate primary, but she wanted whoever won to firmly support Trump.

Significant contests also played out elsewhere on Tuesday.

Republicans control both chambers of Congress. He campaigned furiously in the final days to try to close the gap.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham is competing against state Sen. Jeff Van Drew. Trump carried the 2nd District by almost a 5-point margin in 2016. “Josh Newman’s political career is over because he supported the vehicle and gas tax hikes”, said Carl DeMaio, a San Diego talk show host who helped spearhead the recall. Democratic party establishment recruited Jeff Van Drew to run.

Wicker served almost 13 years in the U.S. House before he was appointed to the Senate when fellow Republican Trent Lott resigned in late 2007.

And Republican Young Kim and Democrat Gil Cisneros, their parties’ respected favorites, were in first and second in the race to succeed retiring Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) in another hotly contested race. Cisneros is a Navy veteran who won the lottery in 2010. Donald Trump won by 4 points Why is this Race so Important? Roughly $3 million has boosted the candidacy of his chief opponent, Assemblyman Tony Thurmond from Richmond, who is backed by the teachers union and other public employee unions.

New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez is facing a primary challenge, as well.

The winners will move on to general election contests that will be held in November. That and last year’s criminal corruption trial against Menendez, which ended in a mistrial before prosecutors dropped the charges, have fueled Hugin’s attacks. Hugin appeared alongside Trump at the White House a year ago but has distanced himself from him since.

Votes are being tallied in Alabama, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota.

“I still consider myself an independent, but I just won’t vote Republican because of what’s going on”, she said. On the House side, Democratic incumbents had challengers in three races, while Republican Leonard Lance is the only member of the GOP with a challenger.

Hugin has loaned his campaign at least $7.5 million and has pledged to restore dignity to the state. Bob Menendez, who defeated federal corruption charges after a hung jury previous year and wants a third term.

That has Democrats in California concerned that their candidates might get locked out of races that are key to their chances of retaking the US House majority in November. Two Democrats – Janene Yazzie and Theresa Becenti-Aguilar – are challenging incumbent Lynda Lovejoy.

In Montana, Republicans will pick a candidate to take on Democratic Sen. Cory Booker and Gov. Phil Murphy.

Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Republican businessman John Cox placed first and second, respectively, in California’s gubernatorial primary Tuesday, according to projections from Fox News and NBC, easing Republican fears that their party would be entirely shut out of the general election in November.

“I’m hoping that California continues to be a liberal bastion and be the resistance against the Trump administration”, she said.

The top two finishers in Tuesday’s election will square off in November, regardless of which party they are from.

A wealthy former biopharmaceutical executive and Marine has won New Jersey’s Republican Senate primary.

Other voters said they want a governor who will represent all Californians.

Two members of the U.S. House are abandoning those seats to run for governor, and that creates a domino effect down the ballot as people battle to win new jobs.

Business executive Bob Hugin is expected to win the Republican senate primary, CNBC reported.

Menendez is seeking his third term and has establishment party support, including from U.S. Sen.