Last night’s marquee race, the U.S. Senate primary in Michigan, was a bit of a letdown for both sides. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, beat the centrist Rep. Haley Stevens, but by an unexpectedly narrow margin. Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney, a democratic socialist, ousted Rep. Shri Thanedar, the latest Democratic incumbent to fall to a lefty challenger. Jocelyn Benson, the sitting secretary of state, easily won the Democratic primary for governor and is favored in November. Former Rep. Elaine Luria, a moderate Navy veteran, won the primary in a Virginia swing seat she narrowly lost to a Republican in 2022.