Another primary is in the can. On Tuesday, Illinois held its primaries, where pro-Israel, crypto and AI money proliferated.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker got his preferred candidate for Senate in Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton in a display of his political heft as he ponders his own 2028 presidential run.
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss won in the hotly contested Illinois 9th district, where the American Israel Public Affairs Committee poured money to prop up Laura Fine and former journalist Kat Abughazaleh came in second.
Take a look at Illinois. In the Senate race, Democrats accounted for about 69 percent of the 1.7 million votes cast. While Illinois is largely regarded as a blue state, that is still a staggering percentage of the turnout.
Even in 2020, when Joe Biden won the state by a wider margin than Kamala Harris did in 2024, he only won 57 percent of the vote. When Chicago's own Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, he won with 61.8 percent of the vote.
One could make the argument that the contested primary between Stratton and Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly made the race more contested, raising the stakes, while Republicans almost certainly know they have little to no chance of winning in the land of Lincoln.
But let's take a look at the primary in Texas, where the Democrats and Republicans both had contested Senate races, with incumbent Sen. John Cornyn facing a primary challenge from Attorney General Ken Paxton, and state Rep. James Talarico beating Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas.
Some 2,165,744 Texans voted in the GOP primary, which will go to a runoff, while 2,311,826 Texans voted in the Democratic primary. And it looks like Hispanic voters are turning out in droves.
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