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Today's show, what do you need to know from yesterday's elections?

It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Key takeaway number one from last night's elections, another mediocre night for Donald Trump.

Five of the 35 House Republicans who voted to establish a January 6th commission faced primaries on Tuesday.

Trump vowed to exact revenge on all of them.

So how did they fare yesterday?

In Iowa, Representative Marianne Miller Meeks ran uncontested in South Dakota.

Representative Dusty Johnson won with almost

59% of the vote. In New Jersey, Representative Chris Smith won with 58% of the vote. In Mississippi,

a 50% threshold state, Representative Michael Guest was forced into a runoff against his MAGA opponent

who attacked his vote for the commission. Trump did not endorse in the race, while he entered the fray before the June 28th runoff.

In California, where all candidates, regardless of party, run in the same primary, Representative

David Valadeo, who also voted to impeach Trump, looks likely to advance to the general election,

though there are still a lot of votes left to count. Worth noting that the Democrat's

strategy of spending money on ads to boost a more Trump-aligned Republican,

who they thought would be easier to beat, seems to have come up short here.

Another test of the Trump brand came in Montana, where the Trump endorsed Ryan Zinke,

who resigned as Trump's Interior Secretary amid scandals,

was hanging on to a three-point lead as if early this morning.

Takeaway number two, a bad night for progressives in two big California cities facing upticks

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