Opinion | Polarized Political Parties at the Primary Polls

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Ted Budd of North Carolina reacts as he takes the stage with former President Donald Trump in Selma, N.C., April 9.Tuesday’s primary elections were a political junkie’s delight, featuring surprising upsets, startling rebukes and razor-thin margins. The Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary is still unresolved when I write, with celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz leading Wall Street banker David McCormick by only 1,684 votes—less than 0.13% of more than 1.

Mr. Trump’s favorite prevailed in the North Carolina Senate primary. Aided by almost $12 million in spending by the Club for Growth, Rep. Ted Budd earned an impressive 59% of the vote. After receiving the former president’s blessing last week, state Sen. Doug Mastriano won the Pennsylvania gubernatorial contest with 44%. In North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District, the Trump-approved 26-year-old college football star Bo Hines took 32% to capture the Republican nomination for the open seat.

A second takeaway from Tuesday’s results is that Republicans have a real enthusiasm edge. In the Pennsylvania primaries, with potentially tens of thousands of ballots to be counted, at least 1.33 million Republicans voted, compared with 1.2 million Democrats. In the last midterm primaries, four years ago, at least 737,312 Republicans and 775,660 Democrats voted in the Keystone State. As of this writing North Carolina Republican turnout totaled 759,554 while Democratic turnout was 613,170.

The Democrats’ schism is visible in several important races in which progressives beat out more traditional liberals. In Pennsylvania, left-wing Lt. Gov. John Fetterman took 59% and every one of the state’s 67 counties, defeating Rep. Conor Lamb, a more traditional Democrat. Progressive Jamie McLeod-Skinner appears to have beaten incumbent centrist Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader in Oregon’s Fifth District, which may put this swing seat into play in November.

opinion KarlRove Who cares what Karl Rove says. The truth is TheDemocrats are the party that best supports small businesses, low taxes for regular Americans, and personal freedom. It’s time people know the truth and vote accordingly

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