Results are coming in from South Carolina, where two Republicans are attempting to hold on to their seats after drawing Trump’s ire

The party has just begun at Brother’s Grill in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where GOP Rep. Tom Rice’s campaign is awaiting the results of Tuesday’s primary election. Rice is running for a sixth term in the House but is facing a difficult challenge following his vote in Jan. 2021 to impeach Donald Trump. 

His main challenger is Russell Fry, whom Trump endorsed.

The small restaurant in a strip mall is apparently one of Rice’s favorite restaurants. A few minutes after 7:30 p.m. ET, Rice walked in, flanked by two sheriff’s deputies and wearing a blue blazer and jeans, to cheers from the crowd of about 40. 

Rice offered a brief blessing in front of a buffet spread of food.

Incumbent Mark Hammond will win the Republican nomination for South Carolina secretary of state, CNN projects.

He will face Democrat Rosemounda Peggy Butler in the general election in November.

It’s 8 p.m. ET, and polls are closing across Maine and in Texas’ 34th Congressional District.

Key races to watch in Maine: The race for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District is setting up to be one of the most competitive House races in the general election in November.

The seat is currently held by Democratic Rep. Jared Golden who is running unopposed. Two Republicans — former Rep. Bruce Poliquin and Elizabeth Caruso, a small business owner — are squaring off to take him on in the fall. The district voted for Donald Trump in 2020.

In Maine’s gubernatorial race, Democratic incumbent Janet Mills is unopposed for her party’s nomination, as is her predecessor, controversial Republican Paul LePage.

Key things to know about Texas’ special election: Voters in the state’s 34th Congressional District will decide who will fill a vacant seat after Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela announced in April he would resign — he had previously said he wouldn’t be seeking another term.

The special election to fill the last few months of the term will be held under Texas’ old district lines — not the new district lines voters voted in for the March 1 primaries. 

The parties have consolidated their support around two candidates — leading Republicans have endorsed Mayra Flores, who is also the GOP nominee for the redrawn district in November, while Democrat Dan Sanchez has the support of Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who currently represents the neighboring 15th District and is the Democratic nominee for the 34th Congressional District in November.

This could be one of the best chances either party has to flip a seat in a special election this cycle.

Incumbent Rep. James Clyburn will win the South Carolina Democratic primary in South Carolina’s 6th District, CNN projects.

He currently serves as the House majority whip.

GOP Gov. Henry McMaster will advance to the November general election in his bid for reelection, CNN projects.

He is running for a second full term and faced one primary challenger, Harrison Musselwhite.

With a live DJ and ice-cold matcha tea, organizers hyped up voters — both new and old — at Desert Breeze Community Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tuesday afternoon.

The event, put on by One APIA Nevada and Asian Community Development Council (ACDC), nonpartisan sister organizations that support Asian and Pacific Islander communities in Nevada, was meant to drive Asian and Pacific Islander voters in the area to the polls, the groups said. 

“The traditional narrative is that Asians always have voting apathy,” said Eric Jeng, the director of outreach for ACDC, who at 33-years-old said he is the oldest organizer with the group.

ACDC aims to educate and mobilize voters in an area where the Asian American and Pacific Islander community is growing. 

Ahead of Tuesday’s primary elections, ACDC translated non-partisan voter guides into five languages: Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Thai.  

Ashley Hermosura, a 33-year-old Democratic voter, told CNN she knew to vote Tuesday because she had been following One APIA on social media. 

In addition to posting on social media for weeks, the group had been knocking on doors and sending text messages, encouraging members of the community to vote. 

“The Republican party has a lot of traction,” Hermosura said, explaining that she showed up to vote for Democratic candidates who are backed by unions and education council members. 

Hermosura said she believes in “getting the Asian vote out in elections and showing up as a politically activated audience in elections.”

Catherine Lee, who is 18 years old and voted in Nevada’s primary election, described the experience of voting for the first time as “cool.” 

Lee, who voted at another event sponsored by the groups last Friday, said she was most excited about voting in the district attorney race.

“They shape outcomes important for fighting racial discrimination in the criminal justice system,” Lee said, describing why she found that race interesting.

Can a Republican House member from a deep red state who voted to impeach Trump, as Rep. Tom Rice did after the Capitol riot, win a GOP primary in 2022?

The first test will come on Tuesday, when Rice, perhaps the most surprising name on the list of 10 Republican members who joined Democrats in impeaching Trump, faces six challengers — led by state Rep. Russell Fry, who has the former President’s endorsement.

Rice is the rare Republican who initially condemned Trump after the insurrection, voted to impeach him afterward and continues to be critical of Trump even as he fights for his political life. His bet: that his deeply conservative record will win out in a district that previously has elected him five times.

Trump has been typically bombastic in his denunciations of Rice, who had been a staunch ally until the insurrection, a “coward who abandoned his constituents by caving to (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi and the Radical Left” over Rice’s vote to impeach.

If none of the primary candidates wins a clear majority, the top two vote-getters will match up in a runoff, likely in August, to decide the nomination.

Here are more key things to watch in today’s primaries.

It’s 7 p.m. ET, and polls closing across South Carolina.

South Carolina’s most competitive primaries will take place in its House races. GOP Sen. Tim Scott and GOP Gov. Henry McMaster are both up for reelection, but Scott is unopposed in his primary and McMaster faces only minor competition. 

Here are some of the key races voters are weighing in on:

Candidates in South Carolina primaries must win more than 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff. If necessary, runoffs would be held on June 28. 

It’s Election Day in Nevada, South Carolina, Maine, North Dakota and Texas’ 34th congressional district.

In the swing state of Nevada, where Democrats currently hold much of the power, competitive Republican primaries for Senate, governor and secretary of state races have captured national attention. Additionally, races across the country will once again test former President Donald Trump’s influence on the GOP, including in South Carolina, where two Trump-backed candidates for US House seats are challenging sitting Republican members of Congress.

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