As it happened: June 7 primary election results in California, Iowa, and more
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Insider brought real-time election results on June 7, 2022, for more than 50 House primaries in California, the highly-watched Los Angeles mayoral race, and the recall of a progressive district attorney in San Francisco. We're also tracking primaries in six other states. Here's how it happened.
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We're covering dozens of primary races up and down the ticket in seven states — click on the links below to see live results for each race.
- California House primaries
- California statewide, legislative, and mayoral primaries
- San Francisco district attorney recall
- Iowa Senate and House primaries
- Iowa statewide and legislative primaries
- Mississippi House primaries
- Montana House primaries
- Montana state legislative primaries
- New Jersey primaries
- New Mexico primaries
- South Dakota primaries
Polls close at 8 p.m. ET in Mississippi, New Jersey, and South Dakota, at 9 p.m. ET in Iowa and New Mexico, at 10 p.m. ET in Montana, and at 11 p.m. ET in California, which holds its elections almost entirely by mail.
– Grace Panetta
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When he's not running for Congress in Montana, Ryan Zinke is a board member and technical committee chair for the US Gold Corp., a publicly-traded gold and precious minerals mining company in which he's also heavily invested. According to his most recent candidate financial disclosure report, he and his wife own up to $250,000 in stock in the company.
While some of his opponents are trying to label him as "too Liberal," Zinke received an endorsement from former President Donald Trump back in July 2021 — Zinke was Trump's interior secretary until 2018, when he stepped down amid a series of ethics probes into some questionable expenditures of his in office.
— Madison Hall
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Billionaire mall magnate Rick Caruso is running for the Democratic nomination to become Los Angeles' next mayor against progressive Karen Bass. Caruso's spent nearly $34 million so far in the race, according to the Los Angeles Times, with $24 million of that going toward digital, radio, and television advertising.
Caruso or Bass could outright become next mayor of Los Angeles tonight — if a single candidate in an LA county or city race receives more than 50% of the primary vote, they skip the general election and outright become the next mayor.
— Madison Hall
US House of Representatives
California's 22nd Congressional District is currently represented by Rep. David Valadao, a dairy farmer, who was one of 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach President Donald Trump in relation to the January 6, 2021 attempted insurrection.
Despite Valadao's attempt to oust the president and the district becoming increasingly purple, Trump never endorsed any of his challengers like he did for the other Republicans who voted for impeachment.
— Madison Hall
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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to breeze into his state's general election en route to likely re-election, having survived a recall election just last year.
How much have politics changed for Newsom — and the nation — during the past 18 years?
This time capsule of a TV interview from 2004 provides a compelling answer.
It features Newsom with then-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle — yes, that Kimberly Guilfoyle — talking about their marriage and political views on Charlie Rose's interview program.
Yes, that Charlie Rose.
Asked to describe his then-wife's politics, the decidedly liberal Newsom said of Guilfoyle that "she's probably a little more conservative than I am" and is "tough, she's tenacious, but she's fair, and she has remarkable compassion."
Guilfoyle, for her part, expressed her admiration for California's municipal bastion of liberalism — "I love San Francisco," she said — and made a few comments that might seem out of place for someone who today is a Donald Trump acolyte.
"Discrimination is never all right, under any circumstance," Guilfoyle declared during the interview.
Most people today likely know Guilfoyle for going full MAGA, speaking at the 2020 Republican National Convention and getting engaged to Donald Trump Jr. — something the couple confirmed in February.
Newsom and Guilfoyle divorced in 2005, with Newsom later acknowledging he had an affair. Newsom later remarried.
The Charlie Rose interview tackles a variety of hot topics from the day, including the death penalty and same-sex marriage. Then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris also gets name-dropped more than once during the conversation.
— Dave Levinthal
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Rep. Tom Malinowski had only token opposition in his Democratic primary for New Jersey's 7th Congressional District, which he won tonight in a landslide.
But the 2-term congressman enters the general election season having sustained self-inflicted political damage. Malinowski failed to report dozens of stock trades — in violation of the federal Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act's disclosure provisions — until Insider revealed in March 2021 that he hadn't been following the law.
In October 2021, the House Committee on Ethics acknowledged it was investigating Malinowsk for his stock trades. The independent Office of Congressional Ethics, in a recommendation to the House Committee on Ethics, concluded in a 5-1 vote that there is "substantial reason to believe" Malinowski broke the law.
The House Committee on Ethics has a range of options. It could do nothing — the most common outcome in cases before this committee tasked with policing its own. It also has the power to recommend to the full House a fine, reprimand, censure, or expulsion of a member. Through his lawyers, Malinowski has asked for leniency.
But the committee, which has 5 Democrats and 5 Republicans, is taking its sweet time: It's issued no ruling in the more than 10 months that the Malinowski matter has been in its purview.
Meanwhile, expect Republicans to pounce on Malinowski's ethical troubles in earnest, as the national GOP sees this race as a prime pick-up. Malinowski won his 2020 general election race by about 1 percentage point. He'll now face a 2022 re-match with the man he then vanquished, Republican Thomas Kean Jr., who also won his primary Tuesday night.
— Dave Levinthal
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who is up for re-election this year, won her primary on Tuesday night. She's considered a possible contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination if Donald Trump does not decide to run.
As governor, Noem has staked out hardline conservative stances on a host of culture war issues. She was an early opponent of masking mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. In February, she signed a law banning transgender athletes from playing on teams that match their gender identities.
— Kayla Epstein
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Incumbent South Dakota Sen. John Thune, a Republican, handily won his primary.
Thune is seeking a 4th term in the Senate. He will face Brian Bengs, a Democrat, in November.
This US Senate seat is considered a safe one for Republicans.
— Kayla Epstein
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Grassley, the oldest Republican member of Congress, will be 89 by Election Day. If he wins reelection, as he's widely expected to do after winning tonight's primary in Iowa, then he'll be heading into his eighth term in office.
Grassley is big on jogging, reporting that he runs on most days, and often challenges others to a push-up contest. When Donald Trump was president, Grassley was third in line to the White House as the Senate's pro tempore.
Grassley's Twitter account often garners a great deal of attention for its authenticity. He shares when he dusts off his old vacuum, "Beth," to clean his home.
—ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) December 25, 2018
He also turned to his Twitter followers in September 2020 when he found a dead pigeon in front of his house, clarifying later that it had "no life whatsoever."
As it turns out, the pigeon wasn't a pet, he told his followers after he solved the mystery. "It was a racing pidgin (sic)."
—ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) September 21, 2020
— Kimberly Leonard
US House of Representatives
Reps. Michael Guest and Steve Palazzo, who both represent deep-red congressional districts in Mississippi, are on the brink of being forced into runoff elections against their primary challengers.
Guest drew opposition from the right for his vote to create a bipartisan commission to investigate January 6. He narrowly trails primary opponent Michael Cassidy in Mississippi's 3rd District at 10:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday.
Palazzo, who is under ethics investigations for misuse of campaign donor funds, is facing four Republican primary challengers and narrowly leads the split field with less than 35% of the vote.
If one or both congressmen fails to earn 50% of the vote on Tuesday night, they'll go to a June 28 runoff election.
-Grace Panetta
US House of Representatives
Results are in for South Dakota's lone US House seat. Incumbent Rep. Dusty Johnson won his primary against state Rep. Taffy Howard.
There are no Democrats running for the seat, so Johnson should coast to a general election victory in November.
-Kayla Epstein
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Polls just closed in California. Voters had until 8 p.m. Pacific Time to submit their mail-in ballots or cast a vote in person.
It could take several days to finalize results in every race, due to California's heavy reliance on vote by mail.
Political pundits are intensely watching the Los Angeles mayor's race, which features a showdown between frontrunners Rep. Karen Bass and billionaire Rick Caruso, both running as Democrats. If neither candidate gets over 50% of the vote to win the election outright, then the top two vote-getters will advance to November.
Several US House districts throughout the state are also worth watching, especially in the purple districts of Southern California's Orange County.
— Kayla Epstein
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San Francisco voters decisively recalled incumbent District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a major blow to the progressive prosecutor movement nationwide.
Boudin, a former public defender, was elected in 2019 on a reform-minded agenda of reducing incarceration.
But both intensifying local frustration over the state of crime and public safety in San Francisco, which has seen a rise in retail and auto break-ins during the pandemic, and an influx of outside money, led to Boduin's overwhelming ouster from office.
-Grace Panetta
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