GOOD MORNING! Welcome to Huddle, the play-by-play guide to all things Capitol Hill, on this Tuesday, August 9, where even during a recess we're clearly still not living our best life . IT'S PRIMARY TIME — Voters in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut head to the polls today. Here's what to watch: MINNESOTA 1st: Voters in Minnesota's 1st congressional district are double dipping today, voting both for a successor for the late Rep. Jim Hagedorn, who died earlier this year and on the same ballot voting in the primary for the November election. The Republican leading the GOP field is former Republican state Rep. Brad Finstad and the Democrat in the lead is Jeff Ettinger, the former CEO of Hormel Foods. WISCONSIN: Three Democrats, Deb McGrath, Brad Pfaff and Rebecca Cooke, are fighting for their party's nomination in the race to replace retiring Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.). Whoever wins will face Derrick Van Orden, the 2020 GOP nominee, in a top Republican target district. IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD… in the Green Mountain State. The big race to watch is the Democratic primary for the House seat that Democratic Rep. Peter Welch is leaving to run for the Senate. The candidates, Lt. Gov. Molly Gray and Becca Balint, the president pro tempore of the state Senate, make it likely that Vermont will send its first ever woman to Capitol Hill. Welch is leading the Democratic primary to fill Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy's seat, the first Senate slot from Vermont to come open since 2006. He faces emergency physician Niki Thran and activist Isaac Evans-Frantz. On the Republican side, Army veteran Gerald Malloy and investment banker Myers Mermel compete against Christina Nolan, who served as U.S. attorney for Vermont during the Trump administration. (Confirmed by voice vote in the Senate in 2017, in case you were going to look it up.) CONNECTICUT: The Republican contest to face Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) pits Trump-backed Republican National Committee Member Leora Levy against former state House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, who won the state party's endorsement, in another test of the former president's strength in primary races this cycle. More on what to watch for in today's races from Zach Montellero and Ally Mutnick. THAT OLD SCHOOL NEW ENGLAND FLAVOR — Moderate Republicans across New England are hoping to stage a comeback in this year's midterms, drawing contrast both with Democrats and with the Trumpist takeover of their party. In Connecticut former state senator George Logan is challenging incumbent Democrat Rep. Jahana Hayes in the 5th District and Mike France is taking on Democratic incumbent Rep. Joe Courtney. Maine's Bruce Poliquin is looking for a double comeback, trying to win back the seat he lost when he was the last New England Republican in the House. Allan Fung in Rhode Island is backing Kevin McCarthy for speaker, if Republicans take the House, but says he'll also buck his party on a whole slate of issues. Sarah trekked around the Northeast talking to candidates and voters: The Republican center mounts its comeback in New England ANOTHER IMPEACHMENT BACKER (NEARLY) TOPPLED — Six-term incumbent Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) is on the edge of defeat after falling to third place behind Trump-backed challenger Joe Kent. More on the state of the race from The Seattle Times .
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