More than a dozen candidates are challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in the Alaska’s nonpartisan, top-four primary on Tuesday, including another Republican named Dan Sullivan.
Floridians will vote in the first election since the state’s congressional districts were redrawn by the Republican-controlled legislature. Two former members of Congress are running for the House seat being vacated by Rep. Byron Donalds, who is running for governor.
In Wyoming, Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman is also giving up her House seat to run for the retiring Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis’ seat. President Donald Trump has endorsed Hageman in the race.
Here’s a look at Tuesday’s primaries:
Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan (L) in Palmer, Alaska, Aug. 17, 2026 and U.S. Senate candidate in Alaska in Petersburg, Alaska, June 26, 2026.
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Alaska
More than a dozen candidates are running against Sen. Sullivan in the state’s nonpartisan primary, in which the top four finishers advance to the general election in November.
Former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola is in the crowded field, as is another Republican Dan Sullivan, who entered the race in June and successfully sued to stay on the ballot after the state’s Division of Elections ruled that his candidacy was meant “to confuse or mislead and to thereby compromise the ballot’s fairness or neutrality.”
Challenger Dan Sullivan has denied those allegations and told his hometown newspaper, “I have every right to stand up and do this. It’s my name, my grandfather’s name: Dan Sullivan. My dad’s name: Dan Sullivan.”
Live Alaska primary results
GOP Rep. Nick Begich III, who defeated Peltola in 2024, is running for reelection in the state’s sole House seat and another member of the prominent Alaska political family, his uncle, former state Senate Minority Leader Tom Begich, is running for governor as a Democrat.
Florida Republican congressman and gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds in Doral, Fla., Aug. 6, 2026 and Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and gubernatorial candidate in Tampa, Aug. 12, 2025.
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Florida
Republicans hope to pick up four more House districts after the state redrew its congressional map earlier this year and made those districts more GOP-friendly.
Redistricting pushed some Democratic incumbents in new districts that would have went Trump in 2024 — Reps. Darren Soto, Jared Moskowitz, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Kathy Castor.
Live Florida primary results
On the Republican side, Rep. Cory Mills, who has been plagued with scandals that he denies, faces a challenge from former TV news anchor Ryan Elijah.
Among the five candidates running for Donald’s seat are former Reps. Madison Cawthon, 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.
Rep. Harriet Hageman departs from a House Republican Conference meeting in the U.S. Capitol Building, July 21, 2026 in Washington.
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Wyoming
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, 2001.
Nine Republicans and two Democrats are running in their party’s primaries to replace Hagemen.
Live Wyoming primary results
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.
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