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President Donald Trump was facing a new round of tests amid a low approval rating on Tuesday as primary elections heated up, including a red state primary that could shift the political tide ahead of midterms, according to reports.

CNN White House correspondent Alayna Treene described how the president was closely watching multiple races — and what Florida's Republican primary could signal in Trump's "adopted home state." Trump has endorsed MAGA Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) in the governor's race to replace the president's "one-time foe" Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

"He issued that endorsement for Donalds roughly 18 months ago, but what's so interesting about this race is that essentially that endorsement, the president's endorsement, did not do enough to clear the field," Treene said. "And part of that is because Ron DeSantis has essentially come out and made clear he does not want Donalds to be his replacement."...

A mysterious super PAC with a suspicious name has swooped into a competitive Michigan primary battle — and Democrats have started to take notice.

Insiders have flagged that "Michigan Sunrise PAC," a group that popped up out of nowhere just days ago, has already dropped nearly $600,000 boosting progressive candidate William Lawrence in the crowded scramble to challenge incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Barrett this fall and take control of the 7th Congressional District, The Down Ballot reported on Monday.

Operatives on both sides suspect Republicans secretly want Lawrence, who has been viewed as the weakest general-election candidate among Democrats, to win the nomination in the swing district. Lawrence is a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, a climate advocacy organization....

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) signaled he could be considering a political comeback just days after losing his primary election to a President Donald Trump-backed challenger, according to reports on Monday.

Massie has been an outspoken critic of Trump and announced in a post on X that he filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for the 2028 election, The Hill reported.

"I filed with FEC for the 2028 House race. This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position as a current office holder and as a potential candidate for federal office. I haven’t made a final decision about which office to seek, if I run," Massie wrote....

A judge in Georgia has forced state officials in the battleground state to allow poll watchers on Tuesday as voters in the Peach State cast their ballots in the midterm primary elections, according to reports.

"A Fulton County judge just issued a temporary restraining order forcing Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office to allow poll watchers and State Election Board observers to monitor the tabulation and reporting of today’s election results," Greg Bluestein, chief political reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, wrote on X.

Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville granted a temporary restraining order against Brad Raffensperger’s office, and the court order outlined that designated poll watchers have the right to observe "the tabulation, aggregation, verification, and reporting of election results at the Secretary of State’s central office, Election Night Reporting Room, or any other facility or location where county results are received, processed, aggregated, verified, recorded or reported on May 19, 2026."...

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley failed to seriously challenge former President Donald Trump for the 2024 nomination — but she didn't have to, argued Lisa Kashinsky and Jessica Piper for Politico, because she damaged the former president in another way.

"The former U.N. ambassador beat Trump in Vermont and Washington, D.C., and won more than 40 percent of the vote in New Hampshire and Utah. And though Haley’s appeal to Republicans in those places hardly dented Trump in the primary, the results suggest very specific vulnerabilities for the former president in the run-up to the general election." Biden, they wrote, can now exploit this "weakness" in the places that Haley revealed it.

"A POLITICO analysis of primary voter data reveals that Trump struggled in places where a majority of adults are college-educated, including in key suburbs that doomed his campaign in 2020," the report continued. "And preliminary exit polling in North Carolina, Virginia and California on Tuesday showed more than two-thirds of Haley voters in each state weren’t committed to voting for the likely GOP nominee in November."...

Donald Trump lost to Nikki Haley in D.C. on Sunday, according to several news reports. MAGA isn't handling it well.

Decision Desk HQ projected that Haley, Trump's former U.N. ambassador, defeated the former president in the District of Columbia Republican primary. The site shows her receiving 62.8% of the vote versus Trump, who got 33.3%.

NBC News also made the same call....