‘I’ve got seven months left’: Massie speaks out after losing House primary to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein – live

In the solidly blue Philadelphia district, Chris Rabb is all but certain to win the general election for the House of Representatives seat.

“Chris Rabb is exactly what Democratic voters nationwide are demanding — progressive trailblazers who fight for their communities, not just when it’s politically convenient but when it’s morally necessary,” said Alexandra Rojas, executive director of Justice Democrats, a political action committee that championed Pramila Jayapal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and other progressive Democrats. “While the party machine has spent decades failing to meet the needs of its voters, Rabb has taken the fight to corporate interests, billionaire CEOs, and Republican extremists his whole career.”

Here’s my colleague Joseph Gedeon with more on Rabb:

Chris Rabb, a state representative – endorsed by the congressional progressive caucus, Justice Democrats and the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board – is running an unapologetically leftwing, grassroots campaign that backs universal healthcare, universal basic income, publicly owned grocery stores, removing big money from politics and ending US military aid to Israel following what he describes as a genocide in Gaza and apartheid in Palestine.

Vowing to end “business as usual” in Washington, Rabb has raised about twice as much as both his main competitors in the primary. “The ideology of machine politics is incumbency and concentration of power,” he said. “I am an aggressively anti-establishment Democrat.”

Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has won the Democratic nomination for governor in Georgia. Bottoms will advance to the general election, where she’ll run against either healthcare executive Rick Jackson or lieutenant governor Burt Jones pending the results of a runoff for the Republican nomination.

Bottoms hopes to win a position no Democrat has held in more than two decades.

During his remarks conceding his race this evening, Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie suggested he’ll push back even harder against Donald Trump during his remaining time in office.

“Today is the six-month anniversary of the Epstein Files Transparency Act,” he said. “We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture – and that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress.”

Massie’s suggestion that he’ll play tough with the president echoed senator Bill Cassidy’s move earlier today to side with Democrats on a war powers resolution after losing his re-election bid to a Trump-backed opponent.

Election results from Fulton county, Georgia, will be delayed after issues at the polls.

According to the county, two precincts will remain open until 11.02pm local time to ensure everyone can vote. The county will not release election results until “all polls have closed”, it said in a social media post.

The heavily Democratic county has long been at the center of Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020, and the FBI raided the county’s election office in February.

Polls in parts of Idaho are closing now. The state is covered by two time zones and polls will close in the rest of the state in an hour, when polls in Oregon close as well.Here’s my colleague Chris Stein again on the races we’re watching there:

Idaho is one of the most Republican states in the nation, and the GOP is expected to once against sweep its House and Senate seats this year. Governor Brad Little is vying for a third term in office against nine primary challengers, but has outraised all of them. The situation is the same for Senator Jim Risch, who has three primary challengers but far more cash than any of them, and viewed as unlikely to lose either his primary, or the general election.

The US representative Mike Collins, an immigration hardliner and Maga enthuasiast, advanced to the runoff for the Republican nomination for Georgia’s US Senate seat.

It is not yet clear whom Collins will run against, the US representative Buddy Carter or the former football coach Derek Dooley.

Republicans hope to unseat the senator Jon Ossoff, a young Democrat and strong fundraiser.

US senator Tommy Tuberville has handily won the Republican nomination for Alabama governor. Tuberville has aligned himself closely with Donald Trump since his election to the Senate in 2020, and received the president’s endorsement.

Tuberville will face former senator Doug Jones in the general election. Jones lost his Senate seat to Tuberville in 2020 by a margin of about 20 points.

Donald Trump twisted the knife against outgoing US representative Thomas Massie, who lost the Republican primary race in Kentucky to White House-backed challenger Ed Gallrein.

“He was a bad guy,” Trump said in comments recorded by CBS News. “He deserved to lose.”

Former broadcast anchor Janelle Stelson has won the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania’s 10th congressional district, teeing her up to take on incumbent Republican representative Scott Perry in November.

Here’s my colleague Shrai Popat with more context on the race:

A group of Republicans in Pennsylvania are relaunching their efforts to unseat Congressman Scott Perry, the fervent Trump ally who represents the state’s 10th congressional district, according to plans first provided to the Guardian.

The “Republicans Against Perry” (Rap) group began in late 2023, backing the congressman’s Democratic opponent, Janelle Stelson, who ended up losing by less than two points in the 2024 election. Now, Rap is restarting their grassroots campaign on Thursday, which includes a slew of electronic billboards throughout the district.

In an address celebrating his victory, Ed Gallrein said his focus was now “on advancing the president’s and the party’s agenda to put America first, and Kentucky always”.

He also thanked his supporters, military colleagues and the Future Farmers of America.

Lieutenant governor Burt Jones and healthcare executive Rick Jackson will advance to a runoff in the Republican primary for the Georgia’s governor’s race.

Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state who defied Trump’s efforts to meddle in the 2020 election, and attorney general Chris Carr were also prominent contenders who did not receive enough votes to proceed to the runoff.