Today’s Primary Elections

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan and RCP Senior Elections Analyst Sean Trende discuss today’s primary elections including new polling from South Carolina’s special election for the GOP senate nomination. Also, the Wall Street Journal reports states are making efforts to clean up their voting rolls in anticipation of attacks by the Trump Administration this fall. Then, Peter Berkowitz, author Explaining Israel: The Jewish State, the Middle East, and America, joins Andrew and Tom to talk about the state of U.S./Israel relations in the wake of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of the Trump Administration’s latest peace plan for Gaza. Also, Israel’s reaction to the new defense pact signed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Then finally, Andrew, Tom and Sean discuss Hunter Biden’s recent appearance on Tucker Carlson’s podcast and the politics of the declining crime rate in America, as both Democrats and Republicans take credit for long-term downward trends in criminality.