Republicans have their candidate in Kentucky, Democrats have their majority in Pennsylvania and the 2024 GOP presidential primary has another clash between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the books.
Voters threw DeSantis a pair of brushbacks on Tuesday, most notably in Kentucky where the Florida governor’s eleventh hour endorsement in the GOP governor primary flopped. Back home in Jacksonville, Democrats knocked off another DeSantis ally, electing the city’s first female mayor.
Philadelphia is now likely poised to do the same. Former city council member Cherelle Parker emerged from a deep field of Democratic candidates to claim the party’s mayoral nod – defeating a pair of leading liberals in the process. Progressives did better in western Pennsylvania, but the whole party was able to celebrate a special election result that, with Heather Boyd’s victory, preserved Democrats’ narrow control of the state legislature.
Here are 7 takeaways from the elections in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Florida.
Former President Donald Trump endorsed Cameron early, offering the 37-year-old attorney general his support last June.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is poised to take Trump on for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination, made an eleventh-hour entry into the Kentucky race, backing Craft – who then fell flat on Tuesday.
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