Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here.
Editor’s note: Tuesday’s newsletter was mistakenly sent again on Wednesday. The version below has the latest information.
By Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
This week’s primaries in Wisconsin and Minnesota brought mixed results for the Democratic Party’s left flank.
While progressive Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan decisively won the primary for her state’s open Senate seat, Francesca Hong, the Wisconsin assemblywoman and self-described democratic socialist, narrowly lost her gubernatorial bid to the more moderate Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley.
