Trump-backed Republicans, With Races in Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington Shaping the Next Congress

In Michigan's too-close-to-call Democratic Senate primary, former county health director Abdul El-Sayed led Rep. Haley Stevens early Wednesday, a contest highlighting the party's divide. Progressives also won Michigan's toss-up district nomination with William Lawrence, who will face incumbent Rep.

Tom Barrett in November. Establishment Democrats secured victories in Missouri's 1st District, where U.S. Wesley Bell won a rematch against former Rep. Bush, backed by national party leaders, and in Virginia's 1st and 2nd districts.

Outside groups spent $52 million in Michigan by mid-July, the most expensive outside spending outside Texas' Senate race, with AIPAC backing Stevens and Bell. Trump-endorsed candidates won in Washington's 4th District (Amanda McKinney), Kansas, and Michigan, though no Trump-endorsed candidate has ever won a general election in that rural district. get money out of politics.