Primaries: Trump-endorsed Mills of Florida loses, as candidates vie for final 2 spots in Alaska Senate race
A projection has not been made for the final two spots in Alaska's Senate race.
Embattled Republican Rep. Cory Mills will lose to challenger Ryan Elijah in Florida's 7th Congressional District, The Associated Press projected Tuesday.
President Donald Trump endorsed Mills in February but didn't mention him when he posted Florida endorsements over the last week.
The two-term congressman has been plagued with scandals and faces a House Ethics Committee investigation and one by the Department of Justice, in part about his finances. Mills has denied the allegations.
Elijah is a former news anchor and NFL sideline reporter and was host of Fox 35’s "Orlando Matters" weekly show. He also worked as a sideline reporter for the Jacksonville Jaguars radio network and Fox Sports.
Florida, Alaska and Wyoming held primaries Tuesday. Here is a look at more races:
Alaska
In Alaska's Senate race, AP projects Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, who is endorsed by President Donald Trump, will advance to the general election, along with former Democratic congresswoman Mary Peltola.
The top four vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party affiliation.
In Alaska's governor race, AP projects that former state senator and state Senate Minority Leader Tom Begich, a Democrat, will advance to the general election for Alaska governor, which will decide the replacement for term-limited Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
In Alaska's at-large congressional district, AP projects that Trump-endorsed incumbent Rep. Nick Begich III, who is the nephew of gubernatorial candidate Tom Begich, will advance in Alaska's sole congressional district.
Florida
Republican Rep. Byron Donalds will win the Republican nomination for governor, the AP projects. Endorsed by Trump, Donalds had been the frontrunner throughout the race. Donalds is expected to face former Republican Rep. David Jolly, who the AP projects will win the Democratic primary.
If Donalds wins in November, he would be the state's first Black governor.
Floridians also voted in the first election since the state's congressional districts were redrawn by the Republican-controlled legislature.
In two of those districts, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is projected by the AP to win the Democratic primary in the 20th District and Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz is projected to fend off a progressive challenger in the 25th District.
Republicans hope to pick up four more House districts in November after the state redrew its congressional map earlier this year and made those districts more GOP-friendly.
Among the five candidates running for Donald's seat are former Reps. Madison Cawthorn, who lost his western North Carolina House seat in 2022 after a series of scandals, and Chris Collins, who resigned from his New York seat shortly ahead of pleading guilty to securities in 2019 before Trump pardoned him the following year. Trump has endorsed Catalina Lauf, who ran two unsuccessful House campaigns in Illinois.
In the race for the Senate, progressive Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon defeated retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a former White House official who testified against Trump during his 2019 impeachment proceedings, in the Democratic primary, the AP projected.
Nixon will face incumbent Republican Sen. Ashley Moody.
Wyoming
In the Wyoming Senate race, Trump-backed Rep. Harriet Hageman is projected to win the GOP nomination defeating four challengers, according to the AP.
In 2022, Trump promoted Hageman in a primary challenge to then-GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, who co-chaired the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Hageman is looking to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis.
In the general election, Hageman will face former state Rep. James Byrd, who was the projected winner of the Democratic primary, according to the AP.
Meanwhile, nine Republicans and two Democrats are running in their party's primaries to replace Hagemen.
In the governor's race, four Republicans are running to replace Gov. Mark Gordon, who is term-limited. The winner will face Kenneth Casner, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary, in November.