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Trump beats a longtime adversary with a late Georgia endorsement, and other election takeaways

Trump’s late endorsement helped make the Georgia runoff a proxy battle with Kemp.

Trump beats a longtime adversary with a late Georgia endorsement, and other election takeaways
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Rep. Mike Collins won Georgia’s Republican Senate primary runoff after President Donald Trump endorsed him, while Trump-backed candidates lost other high-profile contests. The results set up Collins to face Sen. Jon Ossoff in November and offer an early measure of Trump’s influence in Republican primaries.

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President whose endorsement of Collins became central to the Georgia Republican runoff

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Georgia Republican Senate candidate who won the primary runoff

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Jon Ossoff
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Georgia senator and Democratic candidate for reelection

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Iowa representative whose Trump-backed gubernatorial campaign lost its primary

D.C.’s outgoing nonvoting delegate to Congress

Former president mentioned in connection with Keisha Lance Bottoms’s former administration role

Thomas Massie
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Kentucky representative cited as a Trump-backed primary target who lost

D.C. at-large councilman and Democratic nominee to succeed Eleanor Holmes Norton

Barry Moore
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Alabama representative who won the Republican Senate nomination runoff

Bill Cassidy
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Louisiana senator cited as a Trump-backed primary target who lost

Republican candidate who lost the Georgia Senate primary runoff

Karen Bass
Former U.S. Representative (D-CA)

Los Angeles mayor and mayoral candidate

John Cornyn
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Texas senator cited as a Trump-backed primary target who lost

ALSO MENTIONED  Alan Wilson, South Carolina attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate; Brian Kemp, Georgia governor whose preferred candidates lost the Republican contests; Burt Jones, Georgia lieutenant governor and Republican gubernatorial candidate who lost to Jackson; Donald Trump, President who commented on the possibility of Lewis George winning the D.C. mayoral race; Janeese Lewis George, Washington, D.C., city councilwoman and mayoral candidate; Keisha Lance Bottoms, Democratic nominee for Georgia governor; Kenyan McDuffie, Former D.C. city councilman and mayoral candidate; Mike Mazzei, Trump-backed candidate in Oklahoma’s Republican gubernatorial primary; Muriel Bowser, Outgoing Washington, D.C., mayor; Nithya Raman, Los Angeles city councilwoman and mayoral candidate; Pamela Evette, South Carolina lieutenant governor and Republican gubernatorial candidate; Rick Jackson, Republican candidate who won Georgia’s gubernatorial primary; Sid Miller, Texas agriculture commissioner who lost a Republican primary

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Georgia Republicans Select Collins and Jackson in Runoff Elections

Georgia Republicans nominated Mike Collins for Senate and Rick Jackson for governor in their runoffs. Trump had backed Collins and Burt Jones, who lost to Jackson, leaving Trump with his Senate pick but not his preferred gubernatorial nominee. Center outlets mostly present the results as a split test of Trump’s endorsement influence, while some also emphasize divisions among Georgia Republicans and the November contests.

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