ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s influence with Republican primary voters faces another test Tuesday [6-26-18] as he tries to lift two incumbents over outsiders who argue they are the more Trump-like candidates. In South Carolina, Gov. Henry McMaster — who Trump campaigned for Monday [6-25-18] night — faces a runoff against John Warren, a businessman who was endorsed by the third- and fourth-place finishers in the primary two weeks earlier. In New York, GOP Rep. Dan Donovan faces a challenge from convicted felon and former Rep. Michael Grimm. Trump has backed Donovan, but Grimm is seen as the more Trump-like candidate. Colorado, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah are holding elections Tuesday — with runoffs in South Carolina and Mississippi and primaries elsewhere. Colorado and Oklahoma will select nominees to replace their outgoing governors, Democrat John Hickenlooper in Colorado and Republican Mary Fallin in Oklahoma..The major question of Tuesday’s primaries is Trump’s influence with his party’s primary voters. As the US Senate runoff in Alabama between interim Sen. Luther Strange and Roy Moore showed last year, Republicans have at times favored the candidates they see as closer to Trump’s outsider political brand — even if that means breaking with Trump.”
-Eric Bradner, “Tuesday’s primaries test the power of Trump’s endorsement in GOP contests,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 26, 2018 7:05 am