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Tuesday is primary day in red-leaning Nebraska, where party showdowns for the House and Senate will tee up general election matchups in the battle for Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in GOP-dominated West Virginia, establishment Sen. Shelley Moore Capito faces five Republican primary challenges, but enjoys the backing of President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And in New Jersey, Democratic Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, who grabbed national attention last year as he was arrested during an anti-ICE protest outside a federal immigration detention center, is facing seven challengers as he seeks a fourth term steering the Garden State’s largest city.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday’s contests come with less than six months to go until the 2026 midterm elections<\/a>, when Republicans aim to hold their razor-thin House and slim Senate majorities, and Democrats hope to ride a blue wave to escape the political wilderness.<\/p>\n

Here’s a closer look at Tuesday’s ballot box showdowns.<\/p>\n

Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts, who was appointed in 2023 to replace Ben Sasse, and who won a 2024 special election to fill out the final two years of Sasse’s term, is running for a full six-year term. Ricketts faces four primary challengers on Tuesday, but is expected to capture his party’s nomination.<\/p>\n

Ricketts is already eyeing the general election, when he’ll face off against independent candidate Dan Osborn, the industrial mechanic and military veteran who gave Republican Sen. Deb Fischer a scare in her 2024 re-election.<\/p>\n

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Even though the Nebraska<\/a> Democratic Party supports Osborn in the general election, community college instructor Cindy Burbank and pastor Bill Forbes are running for the Democrats’ nomination in the primary.<\/p>\n

Both candidates were last-minute filers, and some Nebraska Democratic leaders alleged that Forbes jumped into the race so that a Democrat would be on the fall ballot and siphon votes away from Osborn to help Ricketts.<\/p>\n

Forbes has denied the claims.<\/p>\n

Burbank says she jumped into the race to keep Forbes off the ballot in November.<\/p>\n

In the gubernatorial primary, GOP Gov. Jim Pillen faces five nomination challengers. Former state Sen. Lynne Walz and perennial candidate Larry Marvin face off for the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n

The primary in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, an Omaha-based competitive seat, is grabbing national attention, in the race to succeed retiring Republican Rep. Don Bacon. The seat is a top target for Democrats as they try to retake the House.<\/p>\n

Omaha City Councilmember Brinker Harding is unopposed for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n

Two major Democrats, state Sen. John Cavanaugh and Denise Powell, are vying for their party’s congressional nomination.<\/p>\n

Nebraska is the only state in the nation, along with Maine, to split their electoral votes<\/span> in presidential elections. And the electoral vote up for grabs in Nebraska’s 2nd District, known as the ‘blue dot,’ was<\/span> carried by then-Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n

Powell argues that if Cavanaugh wins the primary and then the general election, and steps down from his state Senate seat, GOP Gov. Pillen would replace him with a Republican, which could potentially lead to the GOP-dominated legislature scrapping the ‘blue dot’ and<\/span> making Nebraska’s electoral votes winner-take-all.<\/p>\n

Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey is not on the ballot in Tuesday’s primary, but the first-term governor’s clout in state politics is on the line, as the governor is targeting several GOP state lawmakers running for re-election.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the U.S. Senate race, five Democrats are seeking their party’s nomination.<\/p>\n

In Charleston, West Virginia<\/a>‘s capital city, Democratic Mayor Amy Goodwin faces a primary challenge as she seeks a third term. Republican Brian Hunt is unopposed for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n

While Baraka is a Democrat, mayoral elections in Newark are technically nonpartisan.<\/p>\n

If no candidate tops 50% of the vote, a runoff between Tuesday’s top two finishers will be held in early June.<\/p>\n

The charges against Baraka were dropped, and he later ran for governor, coming in second to then-Rep. Mikie Sherrill in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Sherrill ended up winning election as New Jersey<\/a> governor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nebraska-west-virginia-new-jersey-primary-clashes-set-stage-fierce-midterm-fight <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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