Fourteen-term Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., met his match in Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin during Tuesday’s hard-fought primary race. Larson, who has served in Congress since the Clinton administration, faced three challengers: Bronin, state Rep. Jillian Gilchrest and Hartford Education Board member Ruth Fortune. The sprawling district includes Hartford, Glastonbury, Bristol and Windsor Locks. Earlier this term, during a markup of legislation providing House members with DOGE access to...

Republican voters in Minnesota chose their incumbent representative in the U.S. House as their nominee in the race for the state’s 1st Congressional District. Finstad faced off with Gregory Goetzman and Oliver Morlan in the Republican primary on Tuesday. Goetzman previously unsuccessfully challenged Finstad in 2024, earning a measly 4.26% of the vote compared to the incumbent’s 90.9%. Morlan, who is involved in his family’s industrial cleaning business,...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., has won the Democratic nomination for governor of Minnesota as she continues her bid to replace outgoing Gov. Tim Walz, who dropped out of his re-election bid in the midst of a massive fraud scandal. Klobuchar, Minnesota’s senior U.S. senator and a former Democratic presidential candidate, defeated a field of long-shot challengers in Tuesday’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party primary. Klobuchar will move on to face the...