Episode: Republican Primary Results

Tuesday, May 17 was Idaho's primary election for statewide and legislative offices. Between the retirement of prominent lawmakers and defeat of multiple others, the Senate is going to be more conservative next year. No one in legislative leadership lost their primary races, though multiple committee chairs and vice chairs lost. No one section of the state was particularly worse for incumbents than the others, with challengers seeing victories in the north, central, west and eastern parts of the state. And while a handful of extremely conservative House members lost their races, other conservative challengers beat more moderate Republicans. Read more: https://blog.idahoreports.idahoptv.org/2022/05/18/primary-analysis-a-bad-night-for-incumbents/ https://blog.idahoreports.idahoptv.org/category/elections/