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On Tuesday,<\/span> six states held primary elections to select which Republican and Democratic candidates will advance to the general election in November.\u00a0The primaries were seen not only as contests within the states, but also as potential referendums on President Donald Trump\u2019s staying power within the Republican party. By Wednesday morning, it was clear that Trump\u2019s influence is as strong as ever.<\/p>

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In Kentucky, for example, a Trump-endorsed Republican challenger toppled incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie, a thorn in the president\u2019s side who clashed with Trump over deficit spending and the administration\u2019s handling of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

But the MAGA mandate was arguably even clearer in Georgia, in which a number of contests culminated in rebukes of Trump foes and support for his friends.<\/p>\n

In the GOP primary for governor, the Trump-endorsed current lieutenant governor, Burt Jones, received roughly 40 percent of the votes\u2014more than any of the other seven candidates. Because of Georgia\u2019s unique primary rules, in which a candidate has to receive more than half of the vote to become their party\u2019s nominee, Jones will have to compete in a June runoff against the Republican who placed second. He\u2019ll face billionaire health care executive Rick Jackson, who supported Trump\u2019s competitors in the 2024 election and donated money to Liz Cheney\u2019s PAC after she voted to impeach Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection. Jackson\u2019s foes used these donations to label him a \u201cnever-Trumper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state who famously refused to \u201cfind\u201d 11,000 votes for Trump following the president\u2019s 2020 loss, is out of the running for governor, having received just 15 percent of the vote despite national name recognition. <\/p>\n

In the GOP primary for secretary of state, former top Raffensperger aide Gabriel Sterling fared about as poorly as his former boss. Despite having more experience runningelections than any of his competitors,he received less than 12 percent of the vote. Sterling spent his campaign trying to persuade Georgia voters that Georgia had some of the safest elections in the country. The candidates who advanced to the GOP runoff, state representative Tim Fleming and former state representative Vernon Jones, largely did the opposite. Jones is the more extreme of the two, having said there were \u201cmany irregularities\u201d in 2020 and that he \u201cstand[s] with those who believe there was election fraud.\u201d<\/p>

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In the competition to see which Republican will face incumbent Senator Jon Ossoff in November, Rep. Mike Collins performed best. A Trumployalist, Collins once called for the Episcopal Bishop of the Washington diocese to be deported (despite being an American citizen)after she asked Trump to have sympathy for immigrants. The second-term congressman will face Derek Dooley\u2014son of famous University of Georgia football coach Vince Dooley\u2014in the June runoff.<\/p>\n

While technically non-partisan, the three seats up for grabs on Georgia\u2019s Supreme Court also went Trump\u2019s way. Former Democratic state lawmaker Jen Jordan and personal injury attorney Miracle Rankin failed to topple conservative incumbents in each of their races. Conservative Justice Benjamin Land was also re-elected, having run unopposed.<\/p>\n

The majority ideology of the court would not have changed if Jordan and Rankin beat the incumbents, but the race gained outsized attention after a Supreme Court decision last month that enables states to weaken voting power among people of color in ways that will disproportionately improve Republicans\u2019 odds at picking up seats. (Trump called it \u201cthe kind of ruling I like.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Following the decision, Governor Brian Kemp called a special legislative session for June so legislators can redraw congressional maps ahead of the 2028 election cycle. The Georgia Supreme Court will be asked to review these maps, so Republicans will presumably benefit from conservatives ruling the court.<\/p>\n

The state supreme court races aside, most high-profile Georgia primary races will have question marks beside them until the June 16 runoffs. But one thing was fairly clear across the Peach State: Trump won up and down the ballot.<\/p>

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