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President Trump’s once gleaming endorsement record this cycle looked shaky going into Tuesday’s primaries. He suffered his first loss of the year after Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-IA 04) came up short in the Iowa gubernatorial primary despite the president’s support. But he notched a big win in NV-02 on Tuesday, carrying 2024 NV-04 candidate David Flippo (R) over former state Sen. James Settelmeyer (R), who had the backing of Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) and retiring Rep. Mark Amodei (R).

After a strong performance in 2024, Democrats looked to Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) as a guide to recouping the party’s losses with Latino voters. But speaking to a center-left crowd at WelcomeFest in D.C. on Wednesday, the senator urged Democrats to focus more on reaching men writ large. “The reason I think we are losing men is because we are ignoring them, and they feel it, they see it, they hear it,” Gallego said.