{"id":77014,"date":"2026-08-05T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/what-we-learned-from-tuesdays-midterm-primary-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:55:11","slug":"what-we-learned-from-tuesdays-midterm-primary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/what-we-learned-from-tuesdays-midterm-primary-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"What we learned from Tuesday\u2019s midterm primary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elections in five states will be looked back on as a marquee moment ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/05\/michigan-senate-primary-results-abdul-el-sayed\">Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s primary elections in five states will be looked back on as a marquee moment ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections, as voters in Michigan, Washington, Virginia, Kansas and Missouri selected candidates for races that could decide which party wins control of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a rundown of what we learned from the results:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/05\/midterm-primary-elections-what-we-learned\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections in five states will be looked back on as a marquee moment ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary Tuesday\u2019s primary elections in five states will be looked back on as a marquee moment ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections, as voters in Michigan, Washington, Virginia, Kansas and Missouri selected candidates &#8230; <a title=\"What we learned from Tuesday\u2019s midterm primary elections\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/what-we-learned-from-tuesdays-midterm-primary-elections\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What we learned from Tuesday\u2019s midterm primary elections\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77014","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\/77014","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=77014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}