DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Five states hold primaries Tuesday [6-12-18] —Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina and Virginia. Democrats will decide on their candidates for a handful of House seats they hope to win in November, while Republicans will determine the political cost of speaking out against President Donald Trump…When will Maine know who won its primaries for governor and Congress? It probably won’t be on Tuesday night, according to Maine elections officials. Tuesday’s primaries are Maine’s first experiment with ranked-choice voting, a system that allows voters to choose candidates in order of preference. The system is designed to avoid having candidates win with less than 50% support. But in races with multiple candidates—three Democrats are seeking the party’s nomination in the state’s second congressional district and seven Democrats and four Republicans are running for governor—it means a definitive result won’t be known until next week.”
-Reid J. Epstein, Janet Hook and Valerie Bauerlein, “What to Watch in Tuesday’s Primaries: Trump Looms in GOP Races as Democrats Eye Midterms,” The Wall Street Journal, June 12, 2018 5:13 pm