5 takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and elsewhere
The primary campaigns culminating Tuesday night across five states have generated a soap opera’s worth of melodrama. There was the bruising Senate GOP fight between a celebrity TV doctor and a mega-millionaire, with a last-minute scare from a near-unknown. The tattooed Democratic front-runner for the Senate who suffered a stroke just days before the vote. The far-right gubernatorial candidate ...
by Melanie Mason and Arit John, Los Angeles Times
May 17, 2022
4 minutes
The primary campaigns culminating Tuesday night across five states have generated a soap opera’s worth of melodrama.
There was the bruising Senate GOP fight between a celebrity TV doctor and a mega-millionaire, with a last-minute scare from a near-unknown. The tattooed Democratic front-runner for the Senate who suffered a stroke just days before the vote. The far-right gubernatorial candidate who rose to prominence by vehemently seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
And that’s just in Pennsylvania.
With contests spanning the country from North Carolina to Oregon, here are the results of Tuesday’s most consequential — or the craziest — races.
A GOP rumble
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