Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kansas and Oklahoma

[Behind the Aegis]

10. From Vox

Winner: Oklahoma Democrats

Oklahoma has long been one of the most conservative states in the nation, but its incumbent Republican governor is arguably the least popular governor in America thanks to years of budgetary crisis driven by tax cuts and mismanagement of unpredictable fossil fuel revenue.

Consequently, Democrats managed to flip four state legislative seats in special elections last year and for the first time in years have hopes of winning a statewide race. Further bolstering those odds are the fact that they have a strong candidate for governor in the form of former Attorney General Drew Edmondson.

Oklahoma Republicans, meanwhile, almost got a strong recruit of their own in former Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett. Cornett ran the state’s largest city for 14 years and his record of proven electoral success in Democrats electoral base is exactly what the doctor ordered to keep the state in Republican hands.

But instead, the state’s Republican voters chose Tuesday night to nominate Kevin Stitt, a businessman who argued the state needs an outsider to clean up the mess and accused Cornett of running OKC as a “sanctuary city.” Polls show Edmondson narrowly ahead of Stitt in a head-to-head matchup, while he’s well behind Cornett.

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/28/17786858/primary-winners-losers-florida-arizona-oklahoma