{"id":25573,"date":"2026-06-09T23:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=25573"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:54:51","slug":"game-day-june-9-two-grahams-lindsey-and-platner-many-others-move-onto-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/09\/game-day-june-9-two-grahams-lindsey-and-platner-many-others-move-onto-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Day, June 9: Two Grahams (Lindsey and Platner), Many Others Move Onto General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another busy Tuesday for news junkies:<\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2026\/06\/09\/maine-senate-primary-election-live-results-embattled-graham-platner-runs\/\">ME-Sen &#8211; Graham Platner wins Democratic nomination<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CalMatters: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article316068877.html\">CA-Gov &#8211; Xavier Beccara, Steve Hilton to face off<\/a><br \/>\nSacBee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article316068877.html\">Gov. Newsom<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article316009090.html\">Tom Steyer<\/a> endorse Beccara<\/p>\n<p>NYT: CA-22 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/09\/us\/politics\/bains-villegas-california-democrats-primary.html\">Sanders-Backed Progressive Advances in California Swing District Against Valadao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: SC-Gov &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/south-carolina-governor-primary-runoff-pamela-evette-trump-rcna348699\">Trump-backed Pamela Evette advances to GOP primary runoff against Alan Wilson<\/a><br \/>\nNBC: SC-Sen &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/sen-lindsey-graham-wins-gop-primary-defeating-wealthy-challenger-south-rcna348697\">Lindsey Graham fends off wealthy challenger in South Carolina<\/a><br \/>\nGuardian: SC-Gov &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/09\/pamela-evette-south-carolina-republican-governor-primary\">Nancy Mace blames Epstein files backlash as she concedes<\/a><br \/>\nNYT: SC-01 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/09\/us\/politics\/nancy-lacore-mace-south-carolina.html\">Fired Navy Admiral Advances to Democratic Runoff in South Carolina House Race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: NV-Gov &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/09\/us\/politics\/nevada-governor-primary.html?smid=url-share\">Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford Wins Democratic Nomination<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another busy Tuesday for news junkies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25586,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573\/revisions\/25586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}