It’s primary night in America! Voters in Arkansas, Georgia, and Kentucky go to the polls for their party primaries, and we also have runoffs in Texas in contests where no candidates took a majority in the March 6 primaries. Note that, like Texas, both Arkansas and Georgia require a runoff for any races where no one wins a majority; Arkansas’ runoff would be June 19, while Georgia's would be July 24.
You can find our guide to all the key primaries right here, and we’re liveblogging the results at Daily Kos Elections. You can also follow along with our coverage on Twitter.
Poll closing times: 6 PM ET in the Eastern time zone portion of Kentucky; 7 PM ET in Georgia and the rest of Kentucky; 8 PM ET in most of Texas; 8:30 PM ET in Arkansas; 9 PM ET in the Mountain time zone portion of Texas.
Results: Arkansas | Georgia | Kentucky | Texas
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 · 10:05:07 PM +00:00 · David Nir
A tiny trickle of votes has already shown up in Kentucky. We don’t mention this because these numbers can tell us anything meaningful (there are just too few votes so far), but simply because it means that counting has begun.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 · 11:05:25 PM +00:00 · David Nir
Polls have now closed in Georgia and in western Kentucky. We also finally have enough of the vote tallied in the Democratic primary in KY-06 (11%) to start talking about it: Retired Marine Lt. Col. Amy McGrath has a 53-37 lead on Lexington Mayor Jim Gray.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 · 11:21:49 PM +00:00 · David Nir
KY-06 (D): We just got a big dump of ballots, taking us up to 34% reporting and a much narrower race: 47 McGrath, 43 Gray. A large chunk of that came from Fayette County, which is coterminous with the city of Lexington, where Gray is mayor. The potential problem for Gray is that about as much of Fayette is reporting as the rest of the district (i.e., a third of each), but he’s still trailing because McGrath is doing comparably better in the non-Fayette portions of the 6th.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 · 11:50:48 PM +00:00
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Steve Singiser
KY-06 (D): Now at 69% reporting overall, with the bulk of Fayette County now reporting, and the prospects are decidedly grim for Jim Gray. Amy McGrath still holds a 48-41 lead over Gray. Worse still, one local station is reporting that almost all of Fayette is in, and that would only trim the margin for Gray by only an additional 600 votes.