The Kentucky primary race between Democratic candidates to decide who takes on Senate Majority Leader McConnell in November, is too close to call, NBC News projects.
With 10 percent of the vote in by Wednesday morning, McGrath led Booker, 44 percent to 39.6 percent, a margin of slightly over 2,000 votes. But that tally includes only votes cast in person at the polls on Tuesday; none of the substantial number of mail-in ballots that could determine the outcome have been counted and will not be for days.
In New York, longtime Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel was in a tough fight for re-election as he tried to fend off an aggressive primary challenge from Jamaal Bowman, a progressive candidate running in his first political campaign. The race was too early to call, according to the Associated Press, Bowman had roughly 61 percent of the counted vote as of 1:00 a.m. ET Wednesday, while Engel was in second with about 36 percent.
With a huge increase in mail-in voting that slows counting, the possibly week-long lag in determining Tuesday's primary results could be a preview of what the nation faces in the
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