First Thing: Race for California governor deadlocked as primary results across the US pour in
Mixed picture emerges from races across the US, as Trumpโs pick fails in Iowa. Plus: Jill Biden speaks about her husbandโs decision to drop out of the 2024 election Good morning. It has been a night of drama as crucial election results have unfolded โ or not โ across the US. In California, the crucial race for governor remains too close to call. With mountains of ballots left to count, the Republican Steve Hilton was leading the field with the Democrats Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer following. A quirk of the stateโs political system means the top two candidates face off in the general election regardless of which party they belong to. Where else were primary elections held? In many other states. Many eyes were on Iowa, where Josh Turek, backed by millions in outside spending, clinched the stateโs Democratic primary, defeating the state senator Zach Wahls, who had pitched himself as an anti-establishment outsider. On the Republican side, Randy Feenstraโs second-place finish in the gubernatorial race ended Donald Trumpโs perfect endorsement streak, which had held strong since March. When will we know the full results? Voting experts say it could take weeks to finalize the tightest races. What was Pelley said to have done? In an email, the newly appointed executive editor, Nick Bilton, claimed Pelley had โhijacked my first meeting โฆ to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contemptโ. In a message to staff he said that after repeated, failed attempts to find common ground over the weekend, โwe have parted ways with Scott Pelleyโ. Continue reading...