So big day might have to eat definitely before the podcast with neat. I feel like that would be a mistake otherwise

I do like he often doesn't eat before the podcast and arrives and gets hangry. Yeah

You can definitely how one day is hangry. Yes. No, it used to be like the slack chats

He would order lunch in the office, which that was nice. That was a nice tradition

I did that a couple times, but he would get it on edge if um the food wasn't there girls got to eat

Hello and welcome to this primary reaction edition of the 538 politics podcast

I'm Gaelin Dwork on Tuesday

There were primary elections in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Connecticut and Vermont and there was a special election in

Minnesota's first congressional district that special election has been called for Republican Brad Finstad and at the time of our

Recording his lead is about four points so win for Republicans, but it's actually a notable over performance for Democrats

The district leans about 15 points more Republican than the nation

So we'll talk about what that means in the context of other special elections we've seen this year

Also on Tuesday former president Trump's pick for Wisconsin governor Tim Michaels a construction executive beat former

Lieutenant governor Rebecca Cleefish in the Republican primary in a world before Trump

Cleefish would have likely been a shoe in for the nomination instead

Michaels will face Democratic governor Tony Evers in the fall in another sign of changes in the GOP

One-time conservative champion and speaker of the Wisconsin state assembly Robin Voss barely beat back his primary

Challenger on Tuesday night he survived

But we've seen a stark trend of Republican primary challengers defeating incumbent state legislators this cycle

Progressive congresswoman Ilhan Omar also narrowly beat back her primary challenge

However that challenge came from a more moderate candidate and I think we'll probably have to mention during this podcast that the FBI

Executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago earlier this week although by the time you're listening to this

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