Colorado, Oklahoma, and Utah are holding downballot primaries tonight, and we’ll be liveblogging the results. Due to the coronavirus, many voters are choosing to vote by mail, and each state has different deadlines for the return of mail ballots. As a result, we may not know the final results for some races for several days or more.
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OKLAHOMA: First polls of the night closed just a minute or two ago in the Sooner State, where we are paying a particularly close eye on two races. One is a statewide initiative to push for an expansion of Medicaid, a measure opposed by the usual suspects like Americans for Prosperity, as well as the state’s far-right Republican Governor, Kevin Stitt. Supporters have poured money in here, so that should be a good one to watch: energy vs. inertia. At the Congressional level, all eyes is on the OKC metro area, where Republicans will decide (barring a runoff, which could happen here) which candidate will attempt to seize this seat back from Democratic Rep. Kendra Horn, arguably the biggest upset winner of 2018.
A reminder, before things get heavy. In this age of early voting and vote-by-mail, “precincts reporting” has been rendered essentially meaningless. We here at Daily Kos Elections will start reporting results when we reach 5000 net votes in a House primary, or in a statewide election, 5000 votes multiplied by the number of districts in the state (so...25,000 votes for Oklahoma, 35,000 for Colorado, etc.).
OK-05 (R): Ah! The beauty of early votes! We have about 15,000 primary votes tallied, and the aforementioned possibility of a runoff looks, in the early going, like a probability. As expected, state legislator Stephanie Bice and self-funder Terry Neese are at the front of the field, each with 31 percent (Neese is ahead by an insignificant 42 votes). Bice and Neese are way ahead of businessman David Hill, who has just 16 percent. You’ll be shocked to learn that Shelli Landon (yes...that Shelli Landon) is in second-to-last place, with just 1.8 percent of the vote.
OKLAHOMA: Meanwhile, with about 100,000 votes tallied statewide, we’re seeing landslide popular support (yes! even in uber-red Oklahoma!) for Medicaid expansion. Question 802, which would expand Medicaid to at least 200,000 Oklahomans, is passing with 75% of the vote.
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