Neither of the two House candidates who were on opposite sides of the Jan. 6 insurrection will be returning to the Capitol as members in 2025.
But a senator’s nephew could be — even though the same senator’s son, along with the son of a House colleague from the same state, lost a primary for governor. The wife of a former House member, meanwhile, won the nomination to run for his old seat. And a vulnerable House member and two incumbent senators won primaries even though their state’s party organization did not endorse them.
Those are some of the results from primaries Tuesday in Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia, and a runoff in North Carolina that was really over before it began. Here’s a rundown:
