Oklahoma begins choosing a new US senator and governor in crowded primary – US politics live

Republican voters in Georgia will choose their Senate nominee in a runoff election on Tuesday, tapping either a congressman ⁠dubbed ‘Maga Mike’ by Donald ⁠Trump or a political ​outsider backed by governor Brian Kemp.

The winner - representative Mike Collins or former college football coach Derek Dooley - will face Jon Ossoff, a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2028 and the only ⁠incumbent Senate Democrat up for reelection in a state that Trump won in 2024.

Collins finished first in the 19 May primary with 40% of the vote, 10 points ahead of Dooley. Trump endorsed Collins over ⁠the weekend, calling him a “WARRIOR and WINNER” who supported Trump “from the very beginning.“

Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate but have limited ​opportunities to win additional seats. Their top targets are Georgia ‌and Michigan, two states the ‌president narrowly won. But they have a tall task in unseating Ossoff, AP reports.

Charles Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia, ‌said while Ossoff is more liberal than most Georgia voters, his office has a strong constituent services operation and he spends a lot of time in the state.

“Even Republican campaign consultants, activists like that, that I talk to are pretty much willing to concede that, yeah, Ossoff’s going to be able to hold this seat,” he said.