{"id":74347,"date":"2026-06-02T18:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/midterm-primaries-2026-live-results-and-reaction-as-six-states-including-california-and-iowa-cast-ballots\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:55:20","slug":"midterm-primaries-2026-live-results-and-reaction-as-six-states-including-california-and-iowa-cast-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/midterm-primaries-2026-live-results-and-reaction-as-six-states-including-california-and-iowa-cast-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm primaries 2026 live: results and reaction as six states including California and Iowa cast ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the latest results and updates as New Jersey, South Dakota, New Mexico and Montana also vote in primaries<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/30\/california-turbulent-elections\">California elections: governor, LA mayor and Congress at stake<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Voters in Maine won\u2019t head to the polls until next week, but the state\u2019s primary election has been shaken up by recent news about Senate hopeful Graham Platner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to information his wife shared with his campaign last year, Platner exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women during his marriage, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/30\/us\/politics\/graham-platner-maine-senate-texts.html\">New York Times<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections\/graham-platners-wife-flagged-sexually-explicit-texts-to-his-senate-campaign-628ec832\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported, and which the Guardian has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Platner met on Tuesday with Democratic leaders in Washington DC as the embattled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/maine\">Maine<\/a> Senate candidate contends with yet another revelation threatening his campaign, which is at the center of his party\u2019s hopes of regaining control of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Platner did not respond to questions from reporters and quickly entered a waiting car as he exited the meeting, which stretched for more than an hour and a half at the headquarters of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). A spokesperson for the DSCC did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jun\/02\/midterm-primary-election-results-california-iowa-montana-new-jersey-south-dakota-new-mexico-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the latest results and updates as New Jersey, South Dakota, New Mexico and Montana also vote in primaries California elections: governor, LA mayor and Congress at stake Sign up for the Breaking News US email Voters in Maine won\u2019t head to the polls until next week, but the state\u2019s primary election has been shaken &#8230; <a title=\"Midterm primaries 2026 live: results and reaction as six states including California and Iowa cast ballots\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/midterm-primaries-2026-live-results-and-reaction-as-six-states-including-california-and-iowa-cast-ballots\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Midterm primaries 2026 live: results and reaction as six states including California and Iowa cast ballots\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}