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Politics
Al Jazeera Staff

US elections: Five key takeaways from New York, Florida primaries

Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings will try to unseat key Republican Senator Marco Rubio in November [Octavio Jones/Reuters]

A round of primary elections has cemented the political trends that have been taking place in the United States this year – with former President Donald Trump tightening his grip on the Republican Party and Democrats making abortion a central issue to their campaigns.

Voters in New York, Florida and Oklahoma cast their ballots on Tuesday, less than three months before the general midterm elections in November that will decide the makeup of Congress for the following two years.

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