The Latest: Primary elections in Alabama, Oklahoma and Georgia further test Trump's influence
Mike Collins won Georgia’s Republican Senate nomination and will face incumbent Jon Ossoff in November.

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The dispatch supplies election outcomes, candidate context and attributed remarks from candidates and voters. It is useful and generally precise, though its live-update format gives uneven detail across races and offers limited sustained examination of how much Trump’s endorsements affected results.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The roundup covers results and perspectives from both parties, with comments from voters and candidates. The Trump-influence frame receives considerable attention, while analysis of the candidates’ competing positions and the causes of individual results is limited.
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The dispatch reports primary outcomes and attributed remarks in straightforward language without a discernible partisan framing. It includes both Republican and Democratic results and voter perspectives.
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Primary results across several states and Washington, D.C., produced Republican Senate nominees including Barry Moore, Mike Collins and Kevin Hern, while Democrat Robert White won the D.C. delegate primary. The outcomes offered another test of Donald Trump’s influence in Republican contests.
The Associated Press reported that Trump-backed candidates won Republican Senate nominations in Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma, while his preferred candidate did not win the Georgia Republican gubernatorial nomination. Barry Moore, Mike Collins and Kevin Hern advanced to November; Alabama Democrat Everett Wess won his party’s Senate runoff, and Georgia Republican Rick Jackson won the gubernatorial nomination.
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VOTING CLOSEDNo good or bad look here
This story reports what happened without casting Collins in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Collins’s record.
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SWIPE →Democratic primary winner for D.C. delegate to Congress
White's version of this story ↗Alabama senator whose seat is open as he runs for governor
Democratic candidate defeated by Everett Wess in the Alabama Senate runoff
Outgoing D.C. delegate who chose not to seek reelection
Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate
Democratic senator and incumbent in the Georgia Senate race
President whose endorsements shaped several Republican primaries
Alabama attorney general and defeated Republican Senate candidate
Former president cited in Collins’s criticism of Ossoff
California state senator advancing in the special election to succeed Eric Swalwell
Former Homeland Security secretary
Senate minority leader cited in a Republican super PAC’s attack on Ossoff
Homeland Security secretary and former Oklahoma senator
Alabama senator mentioned in a comparison with Barry Moore
Democratic Senate nominee in Alabama
Defeated Republican Senate candidate in Georgia
Republican Senate candidate defeated by Barry Moore in Alabama
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41 OUTLETSDonald Trump endorsed Rep. Mike Collins in Georgia’s Republican Senate runoff against Derek Dooley. The race was to choose the Republican nominee to challenge Sen. Jon Ossoff. Left-leaning outlets place the endorsement amid Republican divisions and concerns about Collins’s controversies or general-election prospects. Center outlets mostly treat it as a development in the GOP runoff and a test of Trump’s influence, often noting Brian Kemp’s support for Dooley. Right-leaning outlets foreground the endorsement and, in some coverage, Trump’s praise of Collins or the broader test of his influence.
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