“Republicans in northwest Iowa ousted Rep. Steve King in Tuesday’s primary, deciding they’ve had enough of the conservative lightning rod known for making incendiary comments about immigrants and white supremacy… The nine-term congressman, shunned by his party leadership in Washington and many of his longtime supporters at home, lost to well-funded state Sen. Randy Feenstra.”( AP News)

Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia all had primary elections on Tuesday. NPR

Both sides celebrate King’s loss:

“As America reels from its worst racial strife in a half-century, Congress’ most racially inflammatory member just lost his primary… He’s compared immigrants to dogs and dirt, and in 2013 said that most young undocumented immigrants have ‘calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.’ He’s also called for an electrified fence along the U.S.-Mexico border [and] repeatedly bemoaned the declining white birth rate… “In 2018 alone, he endorsed a white nationalist running for the mayor of Toronto, questioned whether Muslims should be allowed to work in his district’s pork processing plants and quietly met with leaders of an Austrian far-right political party that was founded by a neo-Nazi… After nearly two decades in Congress, Republican voters in King’s deep-red district finally had enough.” (Cameron Joseph, Vice)

King “called Mexicans coming to the U.S. ‘dirt’ and then called reporters liars for accurately quoting him. He endorsed the fringe candidacy for Toronto mayor of Faith Goldy, whose CV by that time included reciting the white-supremacist ‘14 words’ on the radio. He did what he could to promote far-right politicians in France, Austria, and the Netherlands. He complained that ‘white nationalist, white supremacy, Western civilization’ had come to be considered ‘offensive’ terms — a comment for which the House censured him and the chamber’s Republicans stripped him of his committee assignments… “Iowa Republicans began to wonder what King’s peculiar and troubling enthusiasm for an Alt-Right Internationale had to do with their priorities. Given the chance to vote for a viable alternative who is a mainstream conservative, they took it.” (The Editors, National Review)