Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* With control of Michigan’s state Senate on the line, Democrat Chedrick Greene, a firefighter in Saginaw, cruised to an easy victory. In a district that Kamala Harris won by a single percentage point in 2024, Greene prevailed by 19 points.
* Donald Trump set out to defeat a group of Republican state senators in Indiana who defied him on gerrymandering, and the president’s crusade was largely a success: Local primary voters ousted at least five of the seven state senators whom Trump had targeted with primary challenges.
* In Ohio’s statewide contests, we now know Republican Vivek Ramaswamy will face Democrat Amy Acton in this year’s gubernatorial race, while former Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, will face appointed Sen. Jon Husted, a Republican, in the fall.
* There were also some notable congressional primaries in Ohio, including in the 9th Congressional District, where Republican Derek Merrin will face Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur for the second time. Merrin defeated former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Madison Sheahan, to the relief of GOP officials who saw her as a problematic general election candidate.
* In Michigan’s closely watched Senate race, Rep. Haley Stevens just picked up an important endorsement for her Democratic bid: Former Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat, threw her support behind the congresswoman. Michigan’s primaries, however, are still three months away.
* The Republican crusade to eliminate majority-Black congressional districts has reached South Carolina, which is also eyeing a new map in the wake of Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices gutting the Voting Rights Act.
* As for related Democratic efforts, party leaders in New York are also weighing plans to redraw its congressional district map, but not before the 2028 election cycle.
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