The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from Daniel Donner, David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert and David Beard.
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Leading Off
●Election Night: The elections never stop! It may be springtime in an odd-numbered year, but Tuesday night is chock-full of elections across the country, with critical battles in four states.
- Another bitter GOP primary in Kentucky. Former U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft has blasted Attorney General Daniel Cameron as a “soft establishment teddy bear,” while the Trump-endorsed Cameron has slammed Craft for a misleading ad featuring an empty chair at the dinner table.
- Control of the Pennsylvania House is on the line—again. A special election for a solidly blue district in the Philadelphia suburbs is suddenly competitive thanks to a local scandal, threatening the one-seat majority Democrats unexpectedly captured last year. To defend the seat, Democrats have spent seven figures and rolled out their big guns, including the very biggest of them all.
- The largest city with a Republican mayor could change hands. While Joe Biden narrowly carried Jacksonville, Florida, the GOP has held the mayor's office for all but four of the last 30 years. A victory in the Sunshine State's largest city would be a shot in the arm for Florida Democrats, who've been longing for good news.
