BALTIMORE—Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks won the Democrat Senate primary in Maryland on May 14, while April McClain-Delaney and Neil Parrott won the Democrat and Republican primary, respectively, in the state’s Sixth Congressional District —races that could determine which party controls Congress next year.
Ms. Alsobrooks defeated Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) to take on former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who easily won the GOP primary.
The winner of the November race will succeed retiring Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.). Maryland hasn’t had a Republican in the Senate for nearly four decades.
Incumbent Rep. Carol Miller (R-W.Va.) swept past a conservative challenge, and State Treasurer Riley Moore emerged victorious from a five-candidate field in West Virginia’s two May 14 congressional primary races.
Ms. Miller was declared the winner in her Congressional District 1 (CD 1) primary against former state lawmaker Derrick Evans by the Associated Press at 9:03 p.m. with 60 percent of results counted. At that point, she had garnered 64.7 percent of the tally, or 29,544 votes, to Mr. Evans’ 35.3 percent, or 16,093 votes.
She will be an overwhelming favorite to notch a fourth term in her November race against independent Wes Holden and Democrat James Milton Umberger.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), the incumbent in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, on May 14 secured the Republican nomination in a district that gave its Electoral College vote to President Joe Biden in 2020. Mr. Bacon prevailed over challenger Dan Frei, a businessman and former U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter pilot, by a vote of 18,406 to 7,804.
This came to 70.2 percent for Mr. Bacon and 29.8 percent for Mr. Frei. The businessman, who campaigned as a staunch conservative to the right of the incumbent, was endorsed by the state Republican party and by House Freedom Caucus chair Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.)
Election watchers say that the 2nd district vote could be the deciding factor in what is expected to be an extremely close presidential race.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, recruited by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to enter politics as a Democrat in 2016, is now the overwhelming favorite to succeed the retiring Mr. Manchin in the U.S. Senate in 2025 as a Trump-endorsed Republican.
Mr. Justice easily outpaced Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) in the May 14 GOP Senate primary in a race called by the Associated Press, among others, with less than 10 percent of the tally counted around 8:15 p.m.
Mr. Justice is the prohibitive front-runner in November’s general election against Wheeling Mayor Glenn Elliott, an aide to the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), whp notched the Democrat nomination by edging progressive Zach Shrewsbury and former coal company CEO Don Blankenship in the Democrat primary.
PIKESVILLE, Md.—At one of two voting precincts at Pikesville Middle School, there have been more than 281 ballots cast in a neighborhood where Baltimore’s Jews reside—significant given the war between Israel and Hamas as the Biden administration has come under fire from pro-Israel and anti-Israel communities for its handling of it. Most of the ballots cast have been Democrat ones.
Voters in Maryland are making their picks for senator in a Democratic primary that’s become an unusually difficult fight for both candidates.
Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) is facing off against Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, seen as representing the more progressive wing of the party.
Though Mr. Trone is seen as the favorite for the nomination, Ms. Alsobrooks has put up a tough fight, leading in some of the state’s most recent polls.
Beth Roberts, a 60-year-old retiree said she was feeling the impact of the inflation.
“I'm a school teacher. I just retired and I know I'm on a fixed income at the moment. I definitely see an increase in my groceries, my gas.
“Taxes have gone up where I live. My son has type one diabetes and the medications for type one diabetes are extremely high, and “we help him out. He's a young adult just trying to make it and we help him with that.”
Voters in three states—Maryland, Nebraska, and West Virginia—will go to the polls today to pick their party’s nominees for the general election, with control of various state and federal offices on the line.
The contests for president will be largely uneventful, as former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are already their party’s presumptive nominees.
Also on the ballot for Republicans will be former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley who, despite dropping out of the race at the beginning of March, has continued to rake in double-digit support in Republican contests.
If polls and fundraising are reliable indicators, then term-limited West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice should win his May 14 Republican primary in convincing fashion against Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) to contend for retiring Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) open U.S. Senate seat.
In a May 2-5 survey of 558 likely voters by Emerson College for The Hill and Nexstar, those queried preferred Mr. Justice two-to-one—60 percent to 30 percent—over Mr. Mooney. A FiveThirtyEight average of four April polls gives the governor a consistent 60-to-26.2 percent bulge over the five-term House rep.
Mr. Justice, a billionaire whose family owns coal operations and the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, where House Republicans staged their “energy week” retreat in March, has also outpaced Mr. Mooney in fundraising.