Progressive Dr. Abdul El-Sayed will win the Michigan Senate Democratic main, defeating reasonable Rep. Haley Stevens, the Related Press projected on Wednesday.
Stevens known as El-Sayed to concede the race, in response to a marketing campaign spokesperson.
The 2 had been locked in a high-stakes battle to face Republican Rep. Mike Rogers in November’s normal election in an open seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters. The overall election race may resolve which occasion controls the Senate within the subsequent Congress.
Stevens supplied her assist for El-Sayed and known as on the Democratic Occasion to unite in an announcement on Wednesday.
“This was an intensive and rigorous marketing campaign that introduced out the complete span of views throughout the Democratic Occasion – and that’s the reason we have now primaries,” Stevens stated. “I’m proud to have put up my hand to serve, and prouder to proceed to work collectively to ensure this Senate seat stays blue, that we flip the USA Senate and proceed the work for Michigan.”
“Donald Trump and Mike Rogers need us to return out of this main drained and divided, so their billionaire backers can are available in and let multimillionaire Mike Rogers stroll away with this Senate seat. … I am not going to let that occur,” she added.
Michigan Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens throughout a debate in Southfield, Michigan, July 27, 2026.
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Within the governor’s race, ABC Information tasks Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Republican Rep. John James will win their respective primaries and can face off in November.
James could be the state’s first elected Black Republican governor in historical past.
In Michigan’s seventh Congressional District, ABC Information tasks progressive activist and Democratic Socialists of America member William Lawrence will defeat two extra reasonable candidates to be the Democratic nominee to tackle first-term Republican incumbent Rep. Tom Barrett. The Prepare dinner Political Report charges the district as a “Toss Up.”
Full Michigan main outcomes
Michigan is certainly one of 5 states that held primaries on Tuesday. Right here’s a have a look at the others:
Rep. Wesley Bell speaks throughout a main election night time watch occasion after profitable the Democratic nomination, Aug. 4, 2026, in St. Louis.
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Missouri
In Missouri’s 1st Congressional District Democratic main, ABC Information tasks incumbent Rep. Wesley Bell will beat former Rep. Cori Bush, who Bell unseated two years in the past.
Bell was boosted by outdoors spending from pro-Israel teams. The United Democracy Challenge, a brilliant PAC affiliated with pro-Israel group American Israel Public Affairs Committee, spent tens of millions opposing Bush in each the 2024 and 2026 primaries.
Bush aimed to capitalize on voter sentiment souring on Israel over its actions in the course of the Israel-Hamas struggle in Gaza, in addition to a wave of success by progressives mounting anti-incumbents campaigns.
In Missouri’s newly redistricted fifth District, Republican state Sen. Rick Brattin will face incumbent Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver in November, ABC Information tasks.
Cleaver, who has represented the district since 2005, was unopposed within the Democratic main however faces an uphill battle within the normal election after the state legislature redrew the district final yr to lean Republican. Nationwide Republicans view the district as a high goal for flipping.
Full Missouri main outcomes
Virginia
Military veteran Bert Mizusawa will win the Republican main for Senate in Virginia, ABC Information tasks, and can face Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, who’s operating for his fourth time period.
Mizusawa defeated enterprise chief Kim Farnington and Marine Corps Reserve Lt. Col. David Williams. Warner didn’t face a main challenger.
In Home races, three Republicans had been operating to face first-term Democratic Rep. Eugene Vindman within the seventh District whereas longtime Rep. Don Beyer confronted a number of challengers within the Democratic main within the eighth District.
Full Virginia main outcomes
Adam Hamilton, a Methodist mega-church pastor from Kansas, talks to voters as he wraps up a U.S. Senate listening tour, April 18, 2026, at Limitless Brewing in Lenexa, Kansas.
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Kansas
Within the Kansas governor’s race, ABC Information tasks Republican state Senate President Ty Masterson will face Democratic state Sen. Cindy Holscher within the normal election in November to interchange Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, who’s term-limited.
Masterson beat six different candidates within the Republican main. He obtained backing from President Donald Trump, who known as in a tele-rally for the candidate lower than every week forward of the first.
Holscher defeated state Sen. Ethan Corson and Overland Park Mayor Curt Skoog. She campaigned on her background rising up on a farm and touted her expertise flipping a seat in 2016 held by a Republican incumbent in a conservative district.
ABC Information tasks Rev. Adam Hamilton will win Kansas’ Democratic Senate main — setting him as much as face off in November in opposition to incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall, who ABC Information tasks will win the Republican main.
Hamilton entered the race largely thought of the frontrunner, regardless of solely launching his marketing campaign in April. He initially introduced he would discover operating as an impartial, a transfer that drew criticism from the state GOP.
No Democrat has received a Senate seat in Kansas since 1932.
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Washington
The highest two vote-getters no matter occasion advance to the overall election in Washington.
Within the third Congressional District race, eight candidates had been difficult incumbent Democrat Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and within the 4th District, retiring Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse’s seat is up for grabs.
Full Washington main outcomes
