{"id":2443,"date":"2026-06-16T20:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:34:15","slug":"can-100-million-overcome-a-trump-endorsement-what-to-watch-in-tuesdays-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2443","title":{"rendered":"Can $100 million overcome a Trump endorsement? What to watch in Tuesday\u2019s elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> | An endorsement from President Donald Trump is worth a lot in Republican primaries. But is it worth more than $100 million in Georgia? Can it propel a congressman past an insurgent outsider in Alabama? Can it transform a candidate into a front-runner in Oklahoma?<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been at the center of this year\u2019s midterm campaigns, and his influence will be tested in different ways Tuesday as four states and the District of Columbia hold primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Among Democrats, the primaries will hinge on longstanding divides between progressives and moderates as the party tries to chart the best path forward to November.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few things to watch as voters go to the polls in Alabama, California, the District of Columbia, Georgia and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>How much is a Trump endorsement worth?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is certain in politics, but a \u201ccomplete and total endorsement\u201d from Trump is about the surest path possible to winning a Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Jackson is testing that truism in his bid for Georgia governor. The healthcare tycoon, who faces Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in a runoff, has provided most of the $100 million-plus that his campaign has spent to convince Republican primary voters to overlook Trump\u2019s advice.<\/p>\n<p>Trump endorsed Jones more than a year ago and reiterated his support last week, praising Jones\u2019 \u201cCourage and Wisdom\u201d in a social media post. Rarely has the power of Trump\u2019s endorsement been tested against such a lopsided spending disparity.<\/p>\n<p>Jones finished first with 38% and Jackson second with 33% in the May 19 primary. Now the election to lead one of the nation\u2019s preeminent battleground states will be decided by the voters who didn\u2019t back either of them.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Oklahoma\u2019s Republican primary for governor will test Trump\u2019s endorsement in a different way. There, the president weighed in late, throwing his support two weeks ago to former state Sen. Mike Mazzei among a crowded field without a clear front-runner. The race will go to a runoff if no candidate gets a majority.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is used to getting his way, but earlier this month his choice for governor of Iowa, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, lost to Zach Lahn in the state\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAGA becomes the insider movement and faces an outsider<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump rose to power as an outsider, the head of a \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d movement keen to bulldoze the old political order.<\/p>\n<p>But now the onetime insurgent sits atop a sprawling establishment. What happens when he endorses an insider candidate?<\/p>\n<p>That question is at the heart of the Republican primary runoff for Alabama\u2019s open Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is backing U.S. Rep. Barry Moore, a three-term congressman who has promised to be \u201ca warrior for President Trump\u2019s \u2018America First\u2019 agenda\u201d if elected.<\/p>\n<p>He faces former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson, who is presenting himself as a Washington outsider, trying to harness the anti-establishment fervor that propelled Trump to power to defeat Trump\u2019s preferred candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama is a Republican stronghold, so whoever wins the primary will be heavily favored to prevail in November over either candidate in Tuesday\u2019s Democratic runoff, business owner Dakarai Larriett and lawyer Everett Wess.<\/p>\n<p>The seat is being vacated by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican nominee in the race for Alabama governor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DC mayor\u2019s race features a democratic socialist and a new voting system<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the leading Democratic contenders in the District of Columbia mayor\u2019s race, Janeese Lewis George, describes herself as a democratic socialist, a political denomination that became more prominent with Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 presidential campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>George\u2019s bid for the party\u2019s nomination is not so far removed from democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani\u2019s upset victory for New York City mayor last year. And, as in New York, the race has drawn national attention, including the president\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Trump indicated days before the mayoral primary election that he might take over the city if George wins, saying \u201cwe won\u2019t put up with it.\u201d George called Trump\u2019s threat \u201can attack on democracy itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The overwhelmingly Democratic city\u2019s relationship to the president is a focal point of the campaigns as Trump has exercised broad power over Washington, D.C. That\u2019s included an open-ended deployment of National Guard troops in the streets and his culling of the federal workforce, a chunk of the city\u2019s jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents were frustrated that the mayor, Muriel Bowser, didn\u2019t push back enough on the administration. Part of George\u2019s platform on her website, which heavily focuses on affordability, is to \u201cprotect Home Rule\u201d with \u201cleaders that stand up and fight back, not shrink in the face of injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George and another Democrat, Kenyan McDuffie, who\u2019s focused on public safety, are two of the seven candidates whose race will be the first decided with D.C.\u2019s new ranked choice voting system.<\/p>\n<p>Like a handful of other places, D.C. voters will rank the candidates on a ballot, and if no one crosses 50% of the popular vote, then residents\u2019 second choices come into play. That happened in Maine, where election officials started counting ranked choice votes for governor and a key House race three days after election night.<\/p>\n<p>In D.C., election officials have warned the new system could delay results by days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Election denial looms over race for Georgia secretary of state<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Six years ago, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger resisted Trump\u2019s unfounded claims of election fraud and his request to \u201cfind 11,780 votes\u201d to overtake Democrat Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the first open election for the seat since Raffensperger\u2019s defiance, the two Republicans in the runoff echo Trump\u2019s falsehoods to varying degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Candidate Vernon Jones, who was previously elected to the statehouse as a Democrat but switched parties and aligned himself with Trump, has said he believes there were \u201cirregularities\u201d and \u201cviolations\u201d and he stands \u201cwith those who believe there was election fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of four key points on Jones\u2019 campaign platform, three have to do with election management, including stronger voter identification rules and requiring voting in person with limited exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 runoff opponent, state Rep. Tim Fleming, has tiptoed around the topic, saying there were \u201cirregularities\u201d in 2020 but adding he\u2019s \u201cnot running on conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, of the seven platform points on his campaign website, four are focused on election management and one says the state should \u201cmake it impossible for the Left to cheat in our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skepticism of elections flared up recently in California after Trump made a baseless claim that Democrats were cheating to defeat a Republican candidate for governor and another for Los Angeles mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in Los Angeles, led by Trump appointee Bill Essayli, said it was opening fraud investigations related to the elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A special election to fill Eric Swalwell\u2019s seat after sexual assault allegations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eric Swalwell resigned from the U.S. House in April after a woman alleged he had sexually assaulted her twice, saying she was too intoxicated to consent to sex in both cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat has denied the accusations, but he dropped out of the race for California governor and resigned from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what prompted a special primary election Tuesday, when both Republican and Democratic candidates will compete to serve out Swalwell\u2019s term until January. If a candidate gets more than 50% of the vote Tuesday, that candidate wins outright, otherwise the top two contenders will go to a runoff election Aug. 18.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic candidates, favored to win in the blue district covering several East Bay cities, include Aisha Wahab, a state senator, and Melissa Hernandez, a Bay Area Rapid Transit director.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a competition between the more progressive Wahab, who\u2019s established in California politics, and Hernandez, a local politician who sits closer to the political center. To lower costs, Wahab takes aim at \u201ccorporate profiteering\u201d and argues for an expansion to social safety nets. Hernandez focuses on local job growth and supporting small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates also ran in the regular primary election for Swalwell\u2019s seat and will face off in the general election in November. Whoever wins that race will take over next year.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been corrected to show Trump wanted to find 11,780, not 11,800, votes.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper reported from Phoenix, Bedayn from Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2437\">Trump signals swift return of sanctions on Russian oil as G7 refocuses on Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2439\">Nvidia\u2019s Huang pledges AI will boost manufacturing jobs. 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