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Republican U.S. Senate primary
Coverage of Republican U.S. Senate primary in the Nexus archive.
- Booker set to face Navy vet after former local NJ official lost in 2024 Senate race
Justin Murphy, a Navy veteran and former local committeeman, won New Jersey's Republican U.S. Senate primary, advancing to face Democratic Sen. Cory Booker in the general election. Republicans have not won a U.S. Senate race in the state since 1972.
- Georgia officials kicked off an audit of this month’s election. What does that actually entail?
Georgia officials initiated a risk-limiting audit of the May 19 primary election, using 10-sided dice to randomly select ballots for manual verification. The process, open to the public, aims to confirm machine-tallied results by checking ballot QR codes and human-readable text, with two races—Republican U.S. Senate primary and Democratic governor primary—selected for review.