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Following are three key races:
NEW HAMPSHIRE U.S. SENATE, REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
Don Bolduc, a retired U.S. Army general, is the front-runner for
the Republican nomination to take on Democratic U.S. Senator
Maggie Hassan in a November election that could decide which
party controls the Senate. Bolduc has attracted attention for
calling New Hampshire's Republican Governor Chris Sununu a
"Chinese Communist sympathizer" and for falsely claiming that
Trump was the true winner of the 2020 presidential election,
echoing Trump's false claim that Democrat Joe Biden won because
of fraud. In polls ahead of Tuesday's primary, Bolduc has had
double-digit leads over Chuck Morse, president of the state
Senate.
NEW HAMPSHIRE 1ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
Two former Trump administration officials are the front-runners
in the race to take on Democratic U.S. Representative Chris
Pappas in New Hampshire. Matt Mowers, a former State Department
official under Trump, lost to Pappas in a close election in
2020, and this year is endorsed by U.S. House of Representatives
minority leader Kevin McCarthy. Mowers' main opponent in the
primary contest, former Trump White House aide Karoline Leavitt,
has backed Trump's false election fraud claims and has blasted
Mowers for publicly acknowledging that Biden won the most votes
in the 2020 presidential contest. The two were neck-and-neck in
a recent University of New Hampshire poll.
RHODE ISLAND 2ND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
The Rhode Island contest is seen by analysts as competitive in
November as incumbent Democrat James Langevin is retiring. Allan
Fung, a moderate former mayor of Cranston, is running unopposed
in the Republican primary. He's disavowed Trump's false election
fraud claims and says he would have backed a major gun reform
passed by Congress in June. On the Democratic side, leading
candidates include state Treasurer Seth Magaziner, who has led
the field in fundraising, and Sarah Morgenthau, who served in
the Commerce Department in the Biden administration.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Scott Malone and Jonathan
Oatis)
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