Primary night results for Tuesday, May 24 primaries
WOW. THISS I ABSOLUTELY A HUMBLING DAN INCREDIBLE IN SO MANY WAYS. I DIDN’T GET SO EMOTIONAL THIS FAST. YOU KNOW, WHEN I WORKED AT THE WHITE HOUSE, NOBY ODEVER CHEERED WHEN I WENT UP TO THE PODIUM. SO THIS IS DIFFERENT, BUT I LIKE AIT WHOLE BETTER. YOU KNOW, BEING A FIRST TIME CANDIDATE, I’VE EXPERIENCED A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS I’VE COME TO EVENTS LIKE THIS PRETTY MUCH MY ENTIRE LIFE, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TI IME’VE EVER STOOD ONHE T STAGE AS THE CANDIDATE. AND I GOT TO SAY, I DON’T HATE IT. IT IS AN INCREDIEBL JOURNEY THAT WE HAVE BEEN ON FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF AND THE PEOPLE INHI TS ROOM, THE ONES THAT GOT US HERE AND IT IS BEYOND OVERWHELMING TO KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE, SO MANY PLACES FAR AND WIDE HAVE COME HERE, TO BE HERE DAN CELEBRATE THIS MOMENT, LIKE I THIS CAMPAIGN OVER THEAS LT YEAR A AND HALF, BEEN FULL OF FIRSTS. IN FACT NOT TOO LONG AGO, AT ONE OUR VERY FIRST EVENTS THAT I HAD, I EXPERIENCED SOMETHING THAT WAS PRETTY NEW. D ANI’VE BEEN TO A LOT OF EVENTS IN MY LIFE. SO TO VEHA SOMETHING DFEIFRENT TAKE PLACE KIND OF THREW ME FOR A LOOP. I’D GOTTEN INTO TOWN FORHE T EVENT LITTLE EARLY. ONE OF MY GOOD FRIENDS HADUS JT HAAD BABY. I WANTED TO GO SEE THE BABY BEFORE THE EVENT STARTED, SO I STOPPED BYER H HOUSE AND I TAKE THAT NEWBORN AND FOUR WEEK OLD BABY AND I’’ HOLDING IT, CUDDLING IT, THINKING ABOUT HOW WONDERFUL IT IS ATTH IF IT CRIES. I CAN GIVE IT BACK. I AND AS I’M ENJOYING THIS INCREDIBLE MOMENT, I HAVE JUST THIS WARM BRUSH THAT COMES OVER ME. AND I KNOW MOST OF YOU ARE THINNGKI THAT’S EMOTION, BUT THE BABY HAD ACTUALLY PEED ALL OVER MY DRESS A IND HAD ONLY COME INTO TOWN FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. SO I DIDN’T BRING A BACKUP PLAN. I DID WHAT? ANY WOULD DO. I GAVE THE BABY. I HAD NO CHANGE OF CLOTHES. SO I WALKED OUTSIDE IN THE SUNSHINE, PULLED MY DRESS AWAY FROM MY BODY LITTLE BIT, AND LET IT DRY. AND THEN I WENT STRAIGHT INTO ATTH EVENT WHERE I SHOOK HANDS. I HUGGED A LOTF O PEOPLE. AND I’M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT TN OWI WAS, BECAUSE A LOT OF YOU THAT ARE HERE TONIGHT AT ATTH EVENT SO IT WAS A FIRST. BUT IT WAS INCREDIBLE TO THINK ABOUT AS I WAS LOOKING BACK OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF AND REALIZING THAT ONE OF THE NEXT FIRST WILL BE WHEN THAT BABY TAKES STEPS AND ENWH HE I WILL BE GETTING SWORN IASN THE VERY FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR OF THE STEAT OF. I. AND THAT’S A FIRST I’M REALLY EXCITED. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE REASONS THAT I’M RUNNING AND ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE HAVE WORDKE SO HARD OVER THIS LAST YEAR AND A HALF IS BECAUSE I ABSOLUTELY LOVE STATE. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. I EWGR UP GOING TO EVERY SMALL TOWN ERYVE FESTIVAL, EVERY LITTLE SMALL DINER AND COMMUNITY THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE. AND NOW MY KIDS HAVE DONE THE SAME TNGHI AS WE’VE TRAVELED ACROSS 75 INCREDIBLE COUNTIES HERE IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. WE’VE GOTTEN TO RELIVE AND EXPERIENCE AND REMEMRBE THE GREATNESS OF ARKANSAS. AND IT’S RITGH HERE, THIS ROOM, BECAUSE ETH GREATNESS AND THE BEAUTY OF OUR STATE IS IN THE PEOPLE. AND THAT’’ WHY WE’RE RUNNING BECAUSWEE LOVE THIS STATE, WE LOVE THE PEOEPL OF, THIS STATE. AND WE WANT TO SEE IT BE SUCCESSFUL. WE TO SEE IT THRIVE. FRANKLY I’M TIRED OF WATCHING ARKAASNS BE THE BOTTOM IN SO MANY PLACES THAT I KNOW WE DESERVE TO BE FIRST. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO TAKING THERE. I’M RUNNING BECAUSE I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE DROP OUR KIDS OFF AT SCHOOL, THEY’RE GETTING TNO INDOCTRINATED YET. I WANT MAKE SURE THAT OUR KIDS, WHEN THEY GO INTO THOSE SCHOOL DOORS EAR SAFE TODAY. THE EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE IN TEXAS ARAE STARK AND HUMBLING REMINDER OF JUST HOW PRECIOUS LIFE IS AND WHAT AN INCREDIBLE GIFT THAT EACH OF USAS H BEEN BY OUR CREATOTOR SNDTA TODAY. EVYER SINGLE LIFE HAS VALUE AND THE MOST VULNERABLE AMONG US SHOULD BE THOSE THAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR AND PROTECTING THE MOST. AND I CAN ASSURE YOU, IN MY ADMINISTRATION, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT WE WILL DO. WE WILL MAKE THAT WHEN A KID IS IN THE WOMB, THEY’RE AS SAFE AS EYTH ARE. A CLASSROOM,HE T WORKPLACE, AT A NURSING HOME, BECAUSE EVERY STAGE OF LIFE HAS VALUE. NO GREATER THAN THE OTHER. THAT’S, FRANKLY, WHAT SSET APART, BECAUSE WE ARE A CULTURE THAT, VALUESND A PROTECTS LIFE, AND WE’L’ DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO SURE IT THRIVES AND GROWS AND LIVES SUCCESSFULLY WE CAN AND MUST DO BETTER BY THE CHILDREN IN THIS STATE AND IN THIS COUNTRY I’M RUNNING RFO GOVERNOR, BECAUSE THAT LITTLE BOY THAT I GOTO T HOLD I WANT TO MAKE SURTHE AT WHEN HE TAKES THOSE FIRST STEPS, HE GETS READY RUN AND THAT THE PATH IN FRONT OF HIM IS FREE AND CLEAR SO THAT HE CAN RUN TOWARDS WHATEVER IT IS THAT HE WANTS, BECAUSE THAT’S BEAUTY OF AMERICA. IT DOESN’T WHERE YOU START, YOU GET TO DECIDE WHERE YOU WILL FINISH. AND WE’RE GOING TO MAKE SURE EVERY DKI GROWING UP IN ARKANSAS HAS THAT OPPORTUNITY. YOU KNOW, TRAVELING AROUNDHE T STATE I’VE HELD A LOOFT BABIES AND TME SOME OF THEOU YNGEST CUTEST ARKANSANS THAT WE HAVE. BUT I HAVE ALSO HUGGED SOME OF OUR OLDEST ONE OF MY FAVORITES IS RIGHT HERE THE FRONT FLOYD. HE’S A WODRL WAR VETERAN. HE IS A TRUE AMERICAN HERO HERO. AND EACH OF US IN THIS ROOM ARE FOVERER INDEBTED TO HIM AND THOSE KELI HIM RECENTLY THIS PAST FRIDAY, I WAS IN HARRISON, ARKANSAS AT A PLACE CALLED CAMP JACK. IT’S A VETERANS CENTER, AND I MET A MAN NAMED VIC WHO IS IN HIS NINETIES. AND JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS BEFORE I ARRIVED AT CAMP JACK. VIC WAS UP ON A LADDER PAINTING IN THE RAFTERS. I’D LIKE YOU TO REMEMBER THAT HE’S 90. HE SPENT HIS ENTIRE LIFE SERVING IN THE MILITARY. HE’S NEVER ASKED FOR ATHNYING, BUT ALWAYS BNEE WILLING TO GIVE EVERYTHING. PEOPLE LIKE THAT ARE WHAT MAKE OUR STATE AND OUR COUNTRY GREAT. AND PEOPLE LEIK THAT DESERVE TO KNOW THAT THEY HAVE A COMMUNITY AND A GROUP OF PPLEOE THAT ARE FIGHTING WITH THEM. I CAN ASSURE YOU I WILL BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT IS FIGHTING FOR THE GREATNESS AND THE GOODNESSF O THIS COUNTRY. ARKANSAS WILL BE THE VERY BEST BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM. WE’RE GOING TO GET THERE AND WE’RE GOING DO IT TOGETHER. I TELL YOU HOW THANKFUL I FOR EACH OF YOU, I’VE SAID IT MANY TIMES AND I’LL SAY IT HERE AGAIN TONIGHT. NO CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE EVER WINS THEIR OWN. AND TIFHEY TELL THAT THEY DID THROW THEM OUT BECAUSE YOU DON’T WANT THEM, I CAN ASSURE YOU. I KNOW. I DIDN’T GET HERE ON MY OWN. I HERE. THANKS TO AN INCREDIBLE STAFF WHO HAS PUINT TIRELESS HOURS, PUT WITH A MBEAY SOMETIMES INTENSE AND HIGH EXPECTED CANDIDATE, THE MANY VOLUNTEER ERS FROM ALL 75 COUNTIES WHO HAVE PUT OUT SIGNS IN THE RAIN, WHO HAVE KNOEDCK DOORS, HAVE MADE CALLS, WHO HAVE RAISED MONEY AND GIVEN US THE RESOURCES TO TLEL OUR STORY. YOU HAVE MADE POSSIBLE TO MY FRIENDS WHO HAVE COME FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO STAND HERE, WHO WOULD BE FRIENDS, WHETHER I SWA BEHIND THIS PODIUM OR BEHIND A DESK OR NOWHERE AT LAL THOSE, ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE GOTTEN ME HERE. MOST IMPORTANTLY, MY FAMILY. I HAVE INCREDIBLE. ONE WHO HAPPENED TO BE A PRETTY GOOD GOVERRNO HIMSELF. I DO HATE TO TELL, THOUGH I HOPE TO TAKE AWAY HIS TITLE AS THE BEST GOVERNOR THAT ARKANSAS EVER HAD. I HAVE THREE MOST BEAUTIFUL, INCREDIBLE WILD, SPECIAL CHILDREN. ANYBODY EVER ASK FOR SCARLETT, CKHU AND GEORGE? I’VE GOT MY BROTHERS THAT ARE BOTH HERE. MY SISTER IN LAW, THEIR KIDS. MY MY ENTIRE FAMILY DAN MOST MY HUSBAND WHO HAS SCKTU WITH ME NO MATTER WHAT, WHO IS THE ROCK OF ROU FAMILY AND THAT’)S CARRDIE US. SO PRETTY INCREDIBLE STRONG MAN OWH WILL BY HIS WEIF AT EVERY SECOND, EVERY DAY, NEVER BACK AWAY FROM YAN OF. AND HE HAS DONE IT WITH A SMILE ON HIS FACE ETH ENTIRE WHICH IS PRETTY INCREDIBLE BECAUSE I’VE MET ME AND I CANE A B HANDFUL SO THANK YOU. AND TO EACH OF YOU, THANK YOU R FOBEING HERE TONIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY YOU’VE BEEN ON WITH US. BUT DON’T WORRY, WE’RE NOT FINISHED. WE’VE STILL GOT A LOT MORE DO AN D WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED BECAUSE REAL WORK STARTS IN JANUAROFY NEXT WHEN WE TAKE OFFICE AND WE TAKE ARKANSAS TO THE RYVE TOP. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT. GOD BLESS YOU. GOD BLESS OUR GREAT STATE AND GOD BL
Primary night results for Tuesday, May 24 primaries
Updated: 8:42 AM EDT May 25, 2022
Five states voted Tuesday in primaries for November’s midterm elections. AlabamaKatie Britt, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in Alabama Senate runoffAlabama’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate is going to a June runoff between Katie Britt and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks after neither candidate captured a majority of the vote.Britt is Shelby’s former chief of staff and the former leader of the Business Council of Alabama. Brooks is a six-term congressman from north Alabama. They will advance to a June 21 runoff, which is required if no candidate captures more than 50% of the initial vote.The two edged out Mike Durant, a businessman best known as the helicopter pilot shot down and captured in the events chronicled in “Black Hawk Down.”Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey avoids runoff in Republican primaryAlabama Gov. Kay Ivey has turned back eight primary challengers to win the GOP gubernatorial nomination without a runoff in a race that pushed her far to the right.Over the course of the campaign, Ivey repeated former President Donald Trump’s false claims about election theft. Then, the 77-year-old Ivey sat at her office desk and pulled three things out of her purse for a campaign commercial: a lipstick, a cellphone and a revolver.ArkansasTrump press secretary Sanders wins GOP Arkansas governor nodSarah Sanders won the Republican nomination for governor in Arkansas on Tuesday, putting her on a clear path to lead a solidly red state where Donald Trump’s popularity has overshadowed questions about his administration’s credibility that she faced during her time as White House press secretary. Sanders won the GOP primary for the office her dad, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, held for a decade after a race where she shattered fundraising records. Sanders bombarded the state’s airwaves with TV ads invoking the former president and going after his favorite targets, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.Sanders headed into the primary virtually assured of the nomination, and she remains a heavy favorite in the general election in a state that hasn’t voted for a Democrat for governor since 2010. Nuclear engineer and ordained minister Chris Jones won the Democratic nomination on Tuesday. Sen. John Boozman clinches Republican nomination in ArkansasSen. John Boozman won the Republican primary in Arkansas on Tuesday, fending off efforts by challengers on the right after relying heavily on his endorsement from Donald Trump, conservative groups and the state’s top GOP figures.Boozman’s reelection bid hasn’t garnered the attention nationally of other top campaigns like Senate races in North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania, but it could be another test of Trump’s influence in an extremely red state.Natalie James, a realtor from Little Rock, took an early lead among the three Democrats running in Tuesday’s primary hoping to challenge him in the fall.GeorgiaGeorgia Gov. Brian Kemp defeats David Perdue in GOP primaryRepublican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams will face each other once again in a rematch of the 2018 race that is likely to be one of the nation’s most expensive and closely watched.Kemp easily turned back a GOP primary challenge Tuesday from former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, who was backed by former President Donald Trump as retribution for Kemp not going along with Trump’s effort to overturn his defeat in Georgia’s 2020 election.Georgia US Senate race will pit Warnock against WalkerDemocratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican football legend Herschel Walker wasted little time exchanging attacks Tuesday after both handily defeated primary challengers to set up a historic, high-stakes showdown for a coveted Senate seat in Georgia.Walker, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, defeated five GOP challengers in his race, clearing the 50% mark needed to avoid a runoff. Warnock easily defeated beauty industry professional Tamara Johnson-Shealey. Their general election matchup marks the first time that two major party candidates for U.S. Senate in Georgia are Black.US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wins GOP primary in GeorgiaA defiant U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene easily defeated five fellow Republicans on Tuesday in a primary race that showed her conservative Georgia constituents standing steadfastly beside her after a turbulent freshman term.
Five states voted Tuesday in primaries for November’s midterm elections.
Alabama
Katie Britt, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in Alabama Senate runoff
Alabama’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate is going to a June runoff between Katie Britt and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks after neither candidate captured a majority of the vote.
Britt is Shelby’s former chief of staff and the former leader of the Business Council of Alabama. Brooks is a six-term congressman from north Alabama. They will advance to a June 21 runoff, which is required if no candidate captures more than 50% of the initial vote.
The two edged out Mike Durant, a businessman best known as the helicopter pilot shot down and captured in the events chronicled in “Black Hawk Down.”
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey avoids runoff in Republican primary
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has turned back eight primary challengers to win the GOP gubernatorial nomination without a runoff in a race that pushed her far to the right.
Over the course of the campaign, Ivey repeated former President Donald Trump’s false claims about election theft. Then, the 77-year-old Ivey sat at her office desk and pulled three things out of her purse for a campaign commercial: a lipstick, a cellphone and a revolver.
Arkansas
Trump press secretary Sanders wins GOP Arkansas governor nod
Sarah Sanders won the Republican nomination for governor in Arkansas on Tuesday, putting her on a clear path to lead a solidly red state where Donald Trump’s popularity has overshadowed questions about his administration’s credibility that she faced during her time as White House press secretary.
Sanders won the GOP primary for the office her dad, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, held for a decade after a race where she shattered fundraising records. Sanders bombarded the state’s airwaves with TV ads invoking the former president and going after his favorite targets, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Sanders headed into the primary virtually assured of the nomination, and she remains a heavy favorite in the general election in a state that hasn’t voted for a Democrat for governor since 2010. Nuclear engineer and ordained minister Chris Jones won the Democratic nomination on Tuesday.
Sen. John Boozman clinches Republican nomination in Arkansas
Sen. John Boozman won the Republican primary in Arkansas on Tuesday, fending off efforts by challengers on the right after relying heavily on his endorsement from Donald Trump, conservative groups and the state’s top GOP figures.
Boozman’s reelection bid hasn’t garnered the attention nationally of other top campaigns like Senate races in North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania, but it could be another test of Trump’s influence in an extremely red state.
Natalie James, a realtor from Little Rock, took an early lead among the three Democrats running in Tuesday’s primary hoping to challenge him in the fall.
Georgia
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp defeats David Perdue in GOP primary
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams will face each other once again in a rematch of the 2018 race that is likely to be one of the nation’s most expensive and closely watched.
Kemp easily turned back a GOP primary challenge Tuesday from former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, who was backed by former President Donald Trump as retribution for Kemp not going along with Trump’s effort to overturn his defeat in Georgia’s 2020 election.
Georgia US Senate race will pit Warnock against Walker
Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican football legend Herschel Walker wasted little time exchanging attacks Tuesday after both handily defeated primary challengers to set up a historic, high-stakes showdown for a coveted Senate seat in Georgia.
Walker, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, defeated five GOP challengers in his race, clearing the 50% mark needed to avoid a runoff. Warnock easily defeated beauty industry professional Tamara Johnson-Shealey. Their general election matchup marks the first time that two major party candidates for U.S. Senate in Georgia are Black.
US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wins GOP primary in Georgia
A defiant U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene easily defeated five fellow Republicans on Tuesday in a primary race that showed her conservative Georgia constituents standing steadfastly beside her after a turbulent freshman term.
