The downballot primary season comes to Indiana on Tuesday, where Republicans have expensive and nasty nomination contests to sort through for governor and a quartet of U.S. House seats—including one race where a mercurial congresswoman is about to discover whether it's possible to un-retire a year after calling it quits.
Below you'll find our guide to the key primaries to watch. When it’s available, we'll tell you about any reliable polling that exists for each race, but if we don't mention any numbers, it means no recent surveys have been made public.
To help you follow along, you can find an interactive map from Dave's Redistricting App of the Hoosier State's nine congressional districts. You also can find Daily Kos Elections' calculations of the 2020 presidential results for each district, as well as our geographic descriptions of each seat. And you'll want to bookmark our primary calendar, which includes the dates for primaries in all 50 states.
We'll begin our liveblog at Daily Kos Elections at 6 PM ET. That's when polls close in the part of Indiana located in the Eastern time zone, which is home to over 80% of the state's residents. Polls close an hour later in the remaining portion of the state based in the Central time zone.
• IN-Gov (R) (57-41 Trump): Six Republicans are on the ballot to replace termed-out GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb, but one of them has been the dominant frontrunner throughout the entire primary. Sen. Mike Braun began the contest with a significant advantage in name recognition, and Donald Trump gave him another boost by endorsing him in November.
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