Billionaire Rick Jackson gets Georgia’s GOP nomination for governor in Trump-defying win. Follow Live updates.
Election results added to Trump’s mixed record with gubernatorial endorsements this primary season.
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In Oklahoma, former state Sen. Mike Mazzei failed to meet the threshold needed to secure the GOP nomination, forcing him to a runoff against Gentner Drummond.
In Georgia, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones lost the Republican runoff to Rick Jackson, who dumped over $100 million into his own campaign.
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Trump to wrap G7 summit facing skepticism at home and jitters overseas over his plan to end Iran war — 1:00 a.m.
By the Associated Press
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump wraps up talks with world leaders at the Group of Seven summit on Wednesday where he’s been trying to sell his tentative agreement with Iran as a pact that will ensure the Islamic Republic never develops a nuclear weapon — even though he’s offered scant specificity about how that would be implemented.
Trump and his fellow leaders are closing the formal talks of the leading industrial nations at a lakeside resort in the French Alps on Wednesday with sessions on the future of artificial intelligence and fostering economic growth.
The U.S. leader also plans to make a stop for a glitzy dinner at the Palace of Versailles outside of Paris before he jets back to Washington.
But first, Trump finds himself trying to quell skepticism about the Iran agreement, a difficult task given that neither the White House nor Iran have released the text of the deal. He also faces jitteriness from key ally Israel about ending the conflict under these terms.
Trump’s endorsement success tapers off in governor races — 12:35 a.m.
By the Associated Press
Tonight’s results added to Trump’s mixed record with gubernatorial endorsements this primary season.
Read more Interim US-Iran deal leaves the thorniest issue still to be negotiated: Tehran’s nuclear program
In Oklahoma, former state Sen. Mike Mazzei failed to meet the threshold needed to secure the GOP nomination, forcing him to a runoff against Gentner Drummond.
In Georgia, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones lost the Republican runoff to Rick Jackson, who dumped over $100 million into his own campaign.
Robert White Jr. wins Democratic primary for DC’s delegate to Congress — 12:30 a.m.
By the Associated Press
He becomes the favorite to replace 18-term delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who decided to not seek reelection in the heavily Democratic city.
White, an at-large member of the D.C. Council, would become the third delegate in the district’s history, following Norton and Walter Fauntroy Jr., both politicians with national standing in the civil rights era.
Norton faced heavy pressure to step down from critics who argued she didn’t challenge the Trump administration strongly enough when it deployed the National Guard to the city, among other contentious actions.
DC mayoral candidate says Trump’s attacks on her energized voters — 12:00 a.m.
By the Associated Press
Trump last week threatened a federal takeover of Washington if Janeese Lewis George becomes the city’s next mayor. Lewis George, a self-described democratic socialist, said she believed that threat prompted people to go out and vote.
“Some people who weren’t paying attention to this race until the very end, when Trump made those comments, people were (like) ‘Wait a minute I need to pay attention,’” she told reporters.
Read more State lawmaker and Trump-backed pastor head to House runoff in Oklahoma
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