Several states await the results of their primary elections while the rest of the country carefully watches contests that will serve as a
thermometer to measure how much influence former President Donald Trump still has in the Republican Party.
Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington choose the candidates who will face each other in the November elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Three states will elect nominees for governor and other positions such as secretary of state and state legislatures.
Kansas will vote to give the state the power to decide on abortion rights.
Republican voters must decide the fate of three of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Capitol Hill.
A sign calling for Arizonans to vote in Maricopa County on August 2, 2022. Ross D. Franklin / AP
Governorship in Arizona
In Arizona, leading Republican candidates have repeated Trump's lies about alleged voter fraud in 2020. The particularly close races there for governor are expected to offer a glimpse of how loyal Republican voters remain to Trump and his theories. conspiracy over an alleged “stolen election”.
🔴 Arizona gubernatorial candidate
Kari Lake,
a local news anchor backed by Trump and other influencers in her political movement, called Biden “illegitimate,” slammed Republican Gov.
Doug Ducey for “doing nothing” and suggested that, like Trump, he will not accept the results of his election if he loses.
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🔴
Karrin Taylor Robson
is a real estate developer who worked in the White House during Ronald Reagan's right-wing government and is endorsed by Ducey, former Vice President Mike Pence and other Republican officials.
She called the 2020 election "unfair" but refrained from saying it was stolen and refused to commit to certifying the upcoming presidential election.
🔵 On the Democratic side,
Katie Hobbs,
Arizona Secretary of State, is the favorite to win the nomination, and her candidacy anticipates a close contest with whoever wins on the Republican side.
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Governorship in Michigan
🔴 In Michigan, according to NBC News projections, Republicans preferred conservative
Tudor Dixon
, who led the polls from the beginning and was backed by Trump.
The other candidate was Ryan Kelley, who was arrested last month by the FBI.
He will face Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer in November.
Kansas
Kansas is the first state to decide by popular vote whether or not to leave abortion rights up to
local lawmakers after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
Wade.
In that state, current Governor Laura Kelly would face Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a key figure in the party.
Washington
The elections in Washington do not seem to have major changes to what has been predicted in the polls, Democratic Senator Patty Murray and Republican Tiffany Smiley would emerge triumphant in the race.
Missouri
Eric Schmitt wins the Republican nomination for Senate in Missouri, NBC News projects, ending a comeback bid for former state governor Eric Greitens.
Smitt will face whoever wins the Democratic ticket that is split between Navy veteran Lucas Kunce and Trudy Busch Valentine, a nurse and heiress to the Anheuser-Busch brewing fortune.