May 10, 2022: Another primary day test for Donald Trump

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🗓️ 10 May 2022

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PRIMARY DAY: WHAT TO WATCH FOR — West Virginia and Nebraska hold primaries today. Like last week’s contests in Ohio, the action is mostly on the Republican side, and the main drama is about former President DONALD TRUMP. WEST VIRGINIA: Two GOP incumbents, Reps. ALEX MOONEY and DAVID MCKINLEY, are facing each other in a congressional primary because the state lost a seat after redistricting. NEBRASKA: CHARLES HERBSTER, JIM PILLEN and state Sen. BRETT LINDSTROM are the three top GOP primary candidates running to replace the term-limited governor, PETE RICKETTS. The national implications of the race revolve mostly around Trump’s endorsement of Herbster, who has been accused of sexual assault by eight different women. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Kara Tabor hosted this episode of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	presented by Farma.
0:03.4	Good morning, playbookers.
0:05.5	I'm Carrey Tabor.
0:07.0	It's Tuesday, and here's the question.
0:09.6	How will Trump endorse candidates
0:11.1	fare in their primaries today?
0:13.0	This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:18.0	It's primary day in West Virginia and Nebraska.
0:21.8	Here's what to watch for.
0:23.2	Like last week's contest in Ohio, the action is mostly on the Republican side.
0:28.2	And the main drama is about former president Donald Trump.
0:32.1	In West Virginia, GOP incumbents' representatives Alex Mooney and David McKinley are facing each other in a congressional primary because the state lost a seat after redistricting.
0:43.5	The biggest policy differences are that McKinley voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and Mooney did not.
0:49.7	Mooney's biggest endorsement is Trump, while McKinley's biggest endorsements come from Republican
0:54.3	Governor Jim Justice and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who strongly backed the infrastructure
1:00.3	bill. Here's what our favorite West Virginia, Meredith McGraw, writes about the race.
1:06.0	McKinley has represented West Virginia's first district since 2011. Mooney has represented the second district since
1:12.9	2015. According to ProPublica, both congressmen have voted the same 87% of the time in Congress,
1:20.5	and both have shown support for Trump. But McKinley clearly crossed the line with Trump for two votes.
1:27.1	His support for the creation of a January 6th commission to investigate the riots on Capitol Hill, and his vote for the bipartisan infrastructure deal.
1:35.8	Moody has a leg up in the state with a Trump endorsement, but he's been dogged with allegations he's a carpetbackagger and is currently facing ethics investigations.
1:45.2	McKinley, meanwhile, has touted his lifelong ties to the state and has warned his vote for
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