{"id":26002,"date":"2026-06-17T10:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=26002"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:03:36","slug":"game-day-wrap-up-more-primaries-and-a-defeat-for-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/17\/game-day-wrap-up-more-primaries-and-a-defeat-for-donald\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Day Wrap-up: More Primaries, and a Defeat for Donald!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A busy Tuesday at the voting booth\u2026<\/p>\n<p>GA-Sen: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/16\/georgia-runoff-mike-collins\">Republican voters choose Trump-backed conservative Mike Collins to face Jon Ossoff<\/a> &#8211; Collins is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/election-denier-rick-jackson-wins-georgia-gop-governor-primary-runoff\/\">an election denier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DC-Mayor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2026\/06\/16\/dc-mayor-primary-election-live-results-democrats-vie-replace-bowser\/\">Democratic Socialist Janeese Lewis George takes substantial early lead in D.C. mayoral primary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GA-Gov: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/georgia-governor-midterm-primary-election-winner-jackson-rcna350030\">Billionaire Rick Jackson defeats Trump-backed Burt Jones for the GOP nomination<\/a> &#8211; he is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/election-denier-rick-jackson-wins-georgia-gop-governor-primary-runoff\/\">an election denier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GA-SoS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/anti-voting-republican-tim-fleming-advances-georgia-secretary-of-state-race\/\">Anti-voting Republican Tim Fleming advances in Georgia Secretary of State race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK-Sen: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/oklahoma-senate-primary-midterms-republican-winner-hern-rcna350033\">Rep. Kevin Hern wins GOP primary<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/oklahoma-begins-choosing-a-new-u-s-senator-and-governor-in-crowded-primary\">shifting circumstances push state to decide multiple candidates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AL-Sen: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/alabama-midterms-senate-primary-winner-moore-trump-backed-rcna350027\">Trump-endorsed Rep. Barry Moore wins GOP primary runoff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LA, TN, AL: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/06\/17\/us\/elections\/redistricting-maps-black-voters-republicans.html\">See How New Republican Maps Split Up Black Voters in 3 Southern States<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BUT WAIT\u2026 THERE&#8217;S MORE!<\/p>\n<p>TX-Sen: <a href=\"https:\/\/meidasnews.com\/news\/ken-paxton-uses-ai-labeled-image-to-honor-fallen-military-personnel\">Ken Paxton Caught Using AI-Labeled Image to Honor Fallen Military Personnel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MD-06: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/low-stakes-showdown-between-two-democrats-could-be-costliest-house-primary-ever_n_6a305daee4b07f7766ea5b47?origin=home-latest-news-unit\">A $33 Million Race About Very Little Could Be The Most Expensive House Primary Ever<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy Tuesday at the voting booth\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26002","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\/26002","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=26002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}