Ruben Gallego won Arizona’s Democratic U.S. Senate nomination unopposed on Tuesday night, which has become par for the course for the party in recent decades. Democratic nominees for the office in Arizona have been crowned without opposition on the ballot in five of the last six cycles: Richard Carmona (2012), Ann Kirkpatrick (2016), Mark Kelly (2020 special, 2022), and Gallego, with only Kyrsten Sinema facing a challenger in 2018. Dating back to 1986, 10 of the last 15 Democratic U.S. Senate nominees from Arizona have not had a primary opponent. Republican nominees meanwhile were unopposed for eight consecutive cycles from 1986 through 2006, but have had contested U.S. Senate primaries in each of the last seven cycles including Kari Lake’s win in a three-candidate field last night.

In Nebraska’s Democratic presidential primary, Minnesota U.S. Representative Dean Phillips came out on top in Logan County, winning five votes to Joe Biden’s four. Logan County is located in the central party of the state where more than 175 voters cast their ballots in the GOP primary. This is not Phillips’ first county-wide victory. Prior to suspending his campaign on March 6th, Phillips carried Cimarron County in Oklahoma’s panhandle on Super Tuesday, winning 11 of the 24 votes (45.8 percent) while Biden won just six.