For the first time ever, we broadcast The Downballot’s weekly podcast as a video livestream this week and took questions from viewers!

Co-hosts David Nir and David Beard recapped Arizona’s primaries, including:

• Rep. Dave Schweikert’s mysterious decision to get predictably crushed by fellow Rep. Andy Biggs in the GOP race for governor

• Why the DCCC keeps losing when it intervenes in Democratic House primaries

• How Democrats can flip two seats on the state’s powerful body that regulates utilities—and potentially take control in 2028

And several more contests. The Davids also explain the unfolding drama in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor, where establishment forces are scrambling to halt the rise of a democratic socialist. Then they dive into the races to replace Senate nominees in Maine, where Democrats are in whatever the opposite of disarray is, and South Carolina, where Republicans are very much not deferring to Donald Trump’s pick to replace the late Lindsey Graham.

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