Primary Elections Live Updates: Trump secures crucial battleground state Wisconsin

Two ballot measures in Wisconsin passed on Tuesday that largely served to soothe fears among GOP voters perpetuated by their own leaders.

Republicans in the state supported both questions put to voters in the state, which sought to set new clarification language regarding election workers into the state constitution while also banning private donations from being used to supplement state funding for the management and administration of elections in the state .

Passage of neither referendum is expected to have real, tangible effects on state politics. Both were directly linked to fears spread by Republican elected officials who also aided Donald Trump in spreading conspiracies and mistrust regarding the US election system in 2020.

Democrats had opposed both referendums but did not expand political capital to oppose them in the same way that activists have rallied around ballot questions that touched on more pressing issues such as reproductive freedoms.

As another slew of states held primary elections on Tuesday, President Joe Biden faced his latest scorecard from Democratic voters.

With both parties having concluded the “competitive” portions of the primary season and Mr Biden having wrapped up his party’s nomination the same as his opponent, Donald Trump, attention has shifted to down-ballot races and a growing protest vote movement centered around progressive resistance to the president’s handling of the war in Gaza.

Tonight, the battleground shifted to Wisconsin, a bastion of progressive organizing in the Midwest. It’s the latest arena where supporters of calls for a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip are urging Democratic voters to turn out and vote “uninstructed” in their party’s primary — an essentially ceremonial protest vote that will still send a message to the Biden campaign, one way or the other, regarding his support from key demographics.

As polls close across the state, it was clear that thousands of voters had selected the “uninstructed” option; it was chugging along with about 10 per cent of the vote. There was no sign of a massive rebellion against Joe Biden, but the makings of a sustained feeling of dissatisfaction were there.

House Republican lawmakers are pushing to rename Washington DC’s international airport after former president Donald Trump, who is no stranger to having his name plastered onto the side of large buildings.

Rep Guy Rechenthaler of Pennsylvania, the party’s chief deputy whip in the House, introduced bill HR 7845 on Friday, which proposes changing the airport’s name to “Donald J Trump International Airport”.

Not everyone’s happy with the idea:

Joe Biden and Donald Trump have won their respective primaries in the state of Wisconsin.

The races were called by the Associated Press shortly after 8.15pm local time on Tuesday evening.

Both men added to their delegate totals, with unsurprising wins in the four states of Wisconsin, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump have won their respective primaries in the state of New York.

The races were called by the Associated Press shortly after 9pm local time on Tuesday evening.

Only results from Wisconsin remain.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump have won their respective primaries in the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island.

The races were called by the Associated Press around 8pm local time on Tuesday evening.

Both men are looking to add to their respective delegate totals, though the numbers are now somewhat inconsistent, as both have already secured the requisite numbers of delegates needed to win their parties’ nominations at the conventions this summer.

The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York City has agreed to tighten his gag order due to his “vitriolic” attacks on the judge’s family.

In an order on Monday evening, New York Supreme Court judge Juan Merchan said that Mr Trump’s statements represented a “very real” threat to the integrity of the trial.

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And more importantly, who helped him do it?

Voters in the pivotal swing state of Wisconsin and three Northeastern states will have a chance to indicate their support or opposition to their parties’ presumptive nominees in presidential primaries Tuesday.

Wisconsin voters will also decide the fate of two Republican-backed statewide ballot measures that will shape how elections in the state are run and funded.