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The ballot box showdowns this month that you need to watch

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After a month on the sidelines, the 2026 primary season is back with a vengeance.
A dozen states from coast to coast hold primaries or runoffs in May, and the results of those nomination contests may ultimately determine the outcomes of November’s midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending their slim Senate and razor-thin House majorities.
Also on the line in some of the ballot box showdowns: President Donald Trump’s immense sway over the GOP, as his endorsements in key races will be tested.
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Ed Gallrein launched a congressional campaign to challenge Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky after President Donald Trump endorsed him. The announcement took place in the Oval Office at the White House in March. (Fox News)
Indiana and Ohio kick off the action on May 5, with Nebraska and West Virginia holding primaries a week later, on May 12. Louisiana’s nominating contest follows on Saturday, May 16. Three days later marks the busiest day of the month, with Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania holding primaries. Texas wraps up May with runoff showdowns on May 26.
Here’s a closer look at some of the top races.
MAY 5 – Indiana and Ohio
The first major test of Trump’s grip on the GOP comes in Indiana.
Five months ago, Republicans in the GOP-dominated state Senate withstood immense pressure from Trump and his allies and voted down congressional redistricting, which would have given solidly red Indiana two more right-leaning U.S. House seats ahead of the midterms. Seeking retribution, the president endorsed challengers to eight GOP state senators who voted against the redistricting bill.
The president’s allies have spent millions of dollars to try to oust the state lawmakers who opposed Trump’s redistricting push. Among those in the political fight on behalf of the president are Turning Point USA’s political wing and the Club for Growth.
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Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith announces the results of a vote to redistrict the state’s congressional map at the Statehouse in Indianapolis on Dec. 11, 2025. (Michael Conroy/AP Photo)
The intra-party battle is seen not just as a test of fealty to Trump but rather a fight between MAGA forces and more traditional conservatives for the future of the GOP.
«We’ve got to change those old-style Republicans, put in people who will fight, fight against the Democrat gerrymandering,» Club for Growth President David McIntosh told Fox News Digital.
McIntosh, a former congressman from Indiana, said «I want to see my state do the right thing.»
In neighboring Ohio, there’s a lot less drama.
Vivek Ramaswamy, the multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur and business leader who grabbed national attention during his bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination before dropping out and becoming a top Trump surrogate, is all but certain to capture the Republican gubernatorial nomination in his home state. Ramaswamy, who is backed by Trump, will face off in November against Dr. Amy Acton, a doctor and researcher who served as director of the state Department of Health from 2019 to 2020. Acton is unopposed in the Democratic primary. The winner will succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Mike DeWine.
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Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 in Phoenix on Dec. 19, 2025. (Jon Cherry/AP)
It’s the same story in Ohio’s Senate primary, where appointed Republican Sen. Jon Husted, a former lieutenant governor, is unopposed in the GOP primary. Former longtime Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is expected to cruise to his party’s nomination. The winner will serve the final two years of the term of Vice President JD Vance, who stepped down from the Senate after the Trump-Vance ticket won the 2024 presidential election.
Once a top general election battleground state, Ohio has shifted to the right over the past decade, with Trump carrying the state by 11 points in the 2024 election. But this year’s races for the Senate and governor are expected to be very competitive. And the Senate race is one of a handful across the country that may determine if the GOP holds the majority or if the Democrats flip the chamber.
May 16 – Louisiana
Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is facing primary challenges from two Republicans: Rep. Julia Letlow and former Rep. John Fleming, who is currently the state treasurer. Trump earlier this year weighed into the race by endorsing Letlow.
Cassidy was one of only seven Senate Republicans who voted in early 2021 to convict Trump after he was impeached by the House for his role in the violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters who aimed to upend congressional certification of former President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. Trump was acquitted by the Senate.
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Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., seen speaking during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17, 2025, is facing a rough road to re-election this year. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But since the start of Trump’s second term 15 months ago, Cassidy has been supportive of the president’s agenda and his nominees.
If no candidate cracks 50% of the primary vote, the top two finishers will face off for the nomination in a June 27 runoff election.
May 19 – Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania
The third major test of Trump’s endorsement power this month is in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District, where Rep. Thomas Massie is facing a challenge from Trump-backed Ed Gallrein.
Massie has long been one of Trump’s most vocal GOP critics in Congress, repeatedly taking aim at the president over the Epstein files and foreign policy.

Rep. Thomas Massie arrives for a House vote on the funding bill to reopen the government in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 3, 2026. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Trump allies have spent big bucks to boost Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL, and to take aim at Massie.
The president’s endorsement is also being tested in Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial nomination, in the 2026 race to succeed popular conservative Gov. Brian Kemp, who is term limited.
Trump has endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who is trading fire in a competitive and combustible battle with healthcare executive and mega GOP donor Rick Jackson, who has infused millions of his own money in his bid. Among the others battling for the nomination in a crowded Republican field are state Attorney General Chris Carr and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

GOP candidates for Georgia governor, Rick Jackson, left, and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, right, are pictured with President Donald Trump as they campaign as Trump loyalists. (Getty Images/Rick Jackson)
Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who later served in then-President Joe Biden’s administration, is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. Among the other contenders in the crowded field of candidates are Mike Thurmond, a former DeKalb County CEO and former state Labor Commissioner, and former Republican lieutenant governor turned Democrat Geoff Duncan.
Republicans are hoping to flip the U.S. Senate seat up for grabs this year in Georgia. The GOP views first-term Sen. Jon Ossoff as the most vulnerable Senate Democrat seeking re-election this year. But beating Ossoff, who has built a massive war chest, won’t be easy in the southeastern battleground state.
Making matters worse for the GOP: There’s a nasty primary between major contenders Reps. Mike Collins and Buddy Carter, and former college football coach Derek Dooley, who is backed by Kemp. Trump has remained neutral to date in the Senate primary in Georgia.
May 26 – Texas
Longtime GOP Sen. John Cornyn is fighting for his political life as he faces off in a runoff election against state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is a MAGA firebrand and major Trump supporter.
Trump has stayed neutral in the showdown between the two Republican titans in right-leaning Texas.

Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, left, faces Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a GOP primary runoff election. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images; Antranik Tavitian/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Cornyn narrowly edged Paxton in an early March GOP primary that also included Rep. Wesley Hunt, but with no candidate topping 50%, Cornyn and Paxton advanced to the runoff.
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The winner of the runoff will face off in November with Democratic nominee James Talarico, a state representative and rising Democratic Party star who hauled in an eye-popping $27 million in fundraising the first three months of this year.
Democrats are confident, and Republicans are concerned, that if Paxton wins the GOP nomination, Republicans will have a harder time in the general election holding the seat. And similar to the Senate race in Ohio, the showdown in Texas is one of a handful across the country that may determine if the GOP holds the majority.
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Evacuan de emergencia a la presidenta Laura Fernández tras fuerte explosión en Crucitas, Costa Rica

Un fuerte estruendo, descrito preliminarmente como el sonido de una explosión, obligó este viernes 19 de junio, activar los protocolos de emergencia y a evacuar de forma inmediata a la presidenta de la República, Laura Fernández, junto a una comitiva de ministros y diputados que realizaban una gira oficial en la zona de Crucitas de Cutris, en San Carlos, con el objetivo de abordar la problemática de la extracción ilegal de oro.
La mandataria fue retirada rápidamente del sitio por su equipo de seguridad y escoltada en un vehículo oficial como medida estrictamente preventiva. El estruendo encendió las alertas e informó que los cuerpos policiales ya ejecutan un rastreo profundo en la montaña para ubicar a las personas que habrían provocado la detonación.
Imágenes del tenso momento en que la presidenta de la Asamblea Legislativa de Costa Rica, Laura Fernández, es evacuada de emergencia por su cuerpo de seguridad durante una visita a la conflictiva zona de Crucitas, tras escucharse detonaciones.
Minutos después de ser puesta a salvo, la presidenta Fernández ofreció sus primeras declaraciones oficiales a los medios de comunicación presentes, confirmando que toda la comitiva se encuentra bien, pero lanzó una dura advertencia sobre la situación en la zona.
“Nos han pedido suspender esta conferencia de prensa porque el área va a tener que ser evacuada. Sin embargo, tomé la decisión, por respeto al pueblo de Costa Rica de que hagamos una declaración y le reportemos al país lo que está pasando aquí”, expresó la mandataria.
“Todos estamos bien, habíamos preparado un trayecto de alrededor de siete kilómetros inicialmente, pero después se redujo a una distancia menor por la seguridad, pero evidentemente esto está totalmente salido de control. Es muy doloroso decirlo, pero está salido de control”.
Por su parte, el jerarca de Seguridad detalló cómo se activaron los protocolos tácticos tras el estruendo e informó que las unidades policiales persiguen a sospechosos en la montaña.
“Ya en la parte final, cuando veníamos de regreso, creo que todos escuchamos una explosión y la acción de los cuerpos policiales. El reporte que tengo hasta este momento es que se está haciendo todo un barrido perimetral con las unidades tácticas”.
“Me dicen que vieron gente por el sector donde veníamos, a unos doscientos metros; es la que estamos tratando de encontrar, pero sí es algo preocupante. Gracias a Dios contamos con los protocolos de seguridad. Nadie sufrió ninguna lesión, pudimos evacuar”, expresó el funcionario.

El origen de la crisis: De la minería legal al descontrol clandestino
La extracción de oro en Crucitas de San Carlos pasó de ser un antiguo proyecto corporativo a convertirse en una de las peores crisis ambientales y de seguridad vial en la historia reciente de Costa Rica. En la década de 2000, el Estado otorgó los permisos de explotación a cielo abierto a la empresa canadiense Industrias Infinito.
Sin embargo, tras intensas batallas legales, fuertes protestas civiles y denuncias por irregularidades, el país prohibió la minería metálica y logró ganar un arbitraje internacional definitivo.
El abandono del proyecto original dejó un vacío que fue rápidamente aprovechado por redes del crimen organizado. Miles de mineros clandestinos, conocidos como “coligalleros”, invadieron los terrenos abandonados, desatando un desastre ambiental sin precedentes debido al uso indiscriminado de mercurio y cianuro para procesar el material.
Hoy en día, la problemática ha escalado a un fenómeno transfronterizo altamente complejo, donde el oro extraído ilegalmente en suelo costarricense es trasladado de forma ilícita hacia Nicaragua para su procesamiento industrial.
Fue precisamente la gravedad de este escenario marcado por la degradación ecológica profunda, la vulneración de la soberanía nacional y la violencia en la frontera lo que motivó la visita de la presidenta Laura Fernández este viernes.
La mandataria, acompañada por ministros y diputados, planeaba recorrer en persona las fincas afectadas para evaluar de primera mano los daños y coordinar nuevas estrategias de intervención policial. No obstante, la detonación registrada a escasos 200 metros de la comitiva oficial no solo interrumpió la gira, sino que terminó de confirmar el crudo diagnóstico que la propia gobernante dio ante los micrófonos: la situación en la zona norte se encuentra totalmente fuera de control.
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Walz approval rating craters to lowest level ever and trails Trump amid massive fraud scandal: ‘Tired of it’

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Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, reveals that Minnesota state leaders, including Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, ignored whistleblower warnings and allowed $300 million in federal nutrition fraud. Comer emphasizes that the decision was driven by political reasons to avoid accusations of racism, leading to unchecked fraud and retaliation against those who spoke up.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s approval rating in his state has plummeted to a level below President Donald Trump as the state’s top executive continues to face blowback from the massive fraud scandal that erupted under his watch.
Walz, who is leaving office in January after announcing he will not run for re-election, has an approval rating of 39% in the state and a disapproval rating of 53% with 8% not sure, according to a new poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling and Strategy Inc. for KARE 11, the Minnesota Star Tribune, and the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The poll surveyed 800 Minnesota registered voters likely to participate in the November general election via live telephone interviews from June 8-10, 2026 and the numbers represent Walz’s lowest approval rating since taking office six years ago.
On the fraud issue, 45% of voters say they trust Republicans to fix it compared to 38% who chose Democrats and 14% who said neither party.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2026. The hearing examined alleged misuse of federal funds for Minnesota social services and Medicaid programs. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The same polling unit registered Trump’s approval rating in the state at 41% this week, which conservatives on social media took notice of.
«Tim Walz has a lower approval rating than President Trump in deep blue Minnesota right now,» Townhall columnist Dustin Grage posted on X. «That’s how toxic the fraud has become for Democrats.»
Over the past year, the Trump administration has taken a major interest in Minnesota and unleashed its fraud task force into the state, resulting in raids, arrests and further investigations into how the fraud was able to grow so quickly in the state.
Another contentious issue revealed by the poll is Minnesota’s new state flag, supported by Walz, that 50% of voters say they disapprove of.
The state’s new flag has become a cultural and political flashpoint in a state already reeling from one of the largest fraud scandals in U.S. history, heavily involving the Somali immigrant community. The flag was approved by a 13-member commission created by the Democratic-controlled legislature in 2023. Critics of the flag say it is overly simplistic and some have even knocked it as bearing a resemblance to Somalia’s national flag.
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«Two issues that unite a majority of Minnesotans are the rejection of Tim Walz and his failed policies and our hatred for the Minnesota Somali state flag,» Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who represents Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, told Fox News Digital. «The flag is an embarrassment and good on the cities who are actively removing it from their city halls and communities.»
«President Trump is more popular than Tim Walz in his home state because Minnesotans are sick and tired of Walz siding with illegal aliens and Somali fraudsters over his hardworking, taxpaying constituents.» he continued. «The legacy of Tim Walz will be the fires that destroyed Minneapolis, the fraud that he allowed to be stolen under his watch, and his failures that have harmed our great state.»
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a press conference about the state’s new paid family leave policy at the Coliseum Building in Minneapolis on Jan. 6, 2026. The event occurred a day after Walz announced his withdrawal from the 2026 gubernatorial race. (Photo by Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)
Fraud appears to have played a significant role in Walz’s cratering approval, which is evidenced by a 10-point drop in his support since last year as the fraud scandal has dominated headlines.
Only 1% of Republicans in the state say they approve of the job Walz is doing, along with 73% of Democrats and 32% of Independents.
«America rejected Tim Walz in 2024,» Republican Minnesota State Sen. Michael Holmstrom told Fox News Digital. «Now Minnesotans are following suit. The good news for Tim is that, now that his record is on full display, he could soon be the most popular guy in the jailhouse.»
Republican State Sen. Mark Koran told Fox News Digital that the polls «really tell you what Gov. Walz has done to himself.»
«He let his fraud crisis blow up and didn’t do anything to fix it while he was busy shoving all this radical stuff into state government,» Koran said. «After years of extreme far-left ideology and policies that don’t help normal people, Minnesotans have had enough. His legacy is going to be the fraud crisis and desecrating the state flag. Minnesota is just tired of it.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Walz’s office for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Peter Pinedo contributed to this report
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