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2022 midterms: What to watch in Georgia, Texas, elsewhere

FILE - Alabama Republican Senate candidate Katie Britt speaks to a GOP club meeting in Opelika, Ala., May 16, 2022. Britt faces Rep. Mo Brooks and retiring Sen. Richard Shelby’s former chief of staff, and businessman Mike Durant in the May 24, 2022, Republican primary. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File) FILE - This July 6, 2016, file photo, shows Republican Jennifer Carnahan, the widow of U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn, who died of cancer in February 2022. Carnahan is running for her late husband's U.S. Senate as Voters in southern Minnesota's 1st Congressional District will choose candidates in a special primary, Tuesday, May 24, 2022 in the first step in a complicated process for filling the seat of Rep. Jim Hagedorn. (Brian Bakst/Minnesota Public Radio via AP, File) FILE - Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey delivers her state of the state address at the State Capitol building in Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday evening, Jan. 11, 2022. Ivey is attempting to avoid a runoff as she faces several challengers in the May 24, 2022, Republican primary. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File) FILE - U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, talks to a member of the media during a campaign event, on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in San Antonio. Cuellar, a 17-year incumbent is facing a May 24, 2022, Democratic primary runoff against progressive Jessica Cisneros. (AP Photo/Eric Gay File) FILE - Democratic Congressional candidate Jessica Cisneros speaks to the media before a rally, Feb. 12, 2022, in San Antonio. Cisneros is challenging nine-term U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar in Texas' Democratic primary runoff election on Tuesday May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) FILE - Republican Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush makes a campaign stop, Feb. 10, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Bush is running for attorney general in Texas' Republican primary runoff election against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) FILE - Alabama Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim James speaks to a crowd in Pike Road, Ala., on May 16, 2022. James is part of a crowded field challenging Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey in the May 24, 2022, Republican primary. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File) FILE - Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., speaks with reporters, March 23, 2022, in Hueytown, Ala. Brooks faces Katie Britt, the former leader of the Business Council of Alabama and retiring Sen. Richard Shelby’s former chief of staff, and businessman Mike Durant in the May 24, 2022, Republican primary. (AP Photo/Kimberly Chandler, File) FILE - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., departs the House chamber at the end of votes, at the Capitol in Washington, May 12, 2022. Greene is testing Republican voters' tolerance for controversy in the May 24, 2022, Republican primary. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) FILE - Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at the Austin Police Association on Sept. 10, 2020, in Austin, Texas. Paxton faces Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush in a Republican primary runoff election on Tuesday May 24, 2022. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)
2022 midterms: What to watch in Georgia, Texas, elsewhere