Tuesday saw another round of primaries with candidates from Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas all up for grabs. Texas held its runoff elections.
Now that another primary has come and gone, everyone wants to know who were the Trump-backed winners, and how did Trump fair in general with his endorsements.
Trump-backed heavyweights Marjorie Taylor Greene, Herschel Walker, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Texas runoff AG winner Ken Paxton all easily won their races. A few notable losses include David Perdue who lost against former Vice President Mike Pence’s Brian Kemp for Georgia Governor and U.S. Rep. Jody Hice who Trump recruited from a comfortable congressional seat lost against Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
It certainly wasn’t the best night for Donald Trump, but there are still plenty of winners to applaud as the MAGA movement continues to rage on.
Here are the Trump-endorsed winners from Tuesday’s primary elections:
Alabama Wins
AL01 – Rep. Jerry Carl
Ran Unopposed. Carl voted to challenge the 2020 electoral votes.
AL02 – Rep. Barry Moore
Ran Unopposed. Moore voted to challenge the 2020 electoral votes.
AL03 – Rep. Mike Rogers
Won with 82 percent of the vote. Rogers voted to challenge the 2020 electoral votes.
AL04 – Rep. Robert Aderholt
Unopposed. He voted to challenge the 2020 electoral votes.
AL06 – Rep. Gary Palmer
Unopposed. Palmer voted to challenge the 2020 electoral votes.
Arkansas Wins
GOVERNOR – Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Won with 83 percent of the vote.
Sanders, Trump’s former White House press secretary, said she ran for governor to be part of the “last line of defense” against a Democratic-helmed federal government. In his endorsement, Trump said Sanders would “always fight for the people of Arkansas and do what is right, not what is politically correct” as governor.
SENATOR – John Boozman
Won with 58 percent of the vote.
Boozman voted to acquit the former president in Trump’s second impeachment trial. Trump endorsed Boozman, providing key cover in a tough primary against former Arkansas Razorbacks star and Army ranger Jake Bequette.
AR01 – Rep. Rick Crawford
Won with 75 percent of the vote. Crawford voted to challenge the 2020 election results.
AR04 – Rep. Bruce Westerman
Ran Unopposed.
Georgia Wins
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR – Burt Jones
With 96 percent of the expected vote in, Jones was in first place with 50.1 percent of the vote.
SENATOR – Herschel Walker
Won with 68 percent of the vote.
Walker, who will face Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in November, has had a relationship with Trump for decades, dating back to when Trump owned the short-lived New Jersey Generals football team in the USFL. “He was a great football player and will be an even better U.S. Senator — if that is even possible,” Trump said in September.
GA01 – Rep. Buddy Carter
Ran Unopposed. Carter voted to challenge the 2020 election results.
GA09 – Rep. Andrew Clyde
Won with 76 percent of the vote.
Clyde, who voted to challenge the 2020 election results.
GA11 – Rep. Barry Loudermilk
Ran Unopposed. Loudermilk voted to challenge the 2020 election results and drew national attention for his role in the Jan. 6 House Oversight Committee hearing. Clyde denied the insurrection and said, “if you didn’t know that TV footage was a video from January 6, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.”
GA12 – Rep. Rick Allen
Ran Unopposed. He voted to challenge the 2020 election results.
GA14 – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Won with 70 percent of the vote.
Greene, who voted to challenge the 2020 election results, is one of Trump’s most vocal supporters. In his endorsement, Trump said the lightning-rod freshman lawmaker has always been on his side and is someone who “loves our country and MAGA, its greatest ever political movement.”
Texas Runoff Wins
ATTORNEY GENERAL – Ken Paxton
Won with 68 percent of the vote.
As Texas AG, he challenged the results of the 2020 election in four battleground states but the case was thrown out by the Supreme Court. Paxton beat George P. Bush putting an end to the Bush era.
LAND COMMISSIONER – Dawn Buckingham
Won with 69 percent of the vote.
STATE SENATE – Pete Flores
Won with 59 percent of the vote.
STATE HOUSE – Frederick Frazier
Won with 64 percent of the vote.
TARRANT COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY – Phil Sorrells
Won with 59 percent of the vote.
