congress pushing ahead. they want these sections -- sanctions on, so that will strengthen their hands. we will continue to do that. host: congressman ted yoho leah askarinam, the inside elections reporter and analyst looking at all four elections, primary elections across the country yesterday. that was a big loss for republicans, mark sanford in particular in south carolina. guest: right, and what you are seeing was last night was a good night for president trump. he intervened at the last minute to support a candidate who he thought would be a better supporter of his own agenda in of carolinas first district. he also has -- in south carolina's first district. he also has a supporter, corey stewart, who ran for governor in

the primary unsuccessfully last year but succeeded a lot of expectations on how he would perform as a candidate who had previously supported confederate monuments and was kind of considered to be not as competitive as some other candidates there. a bunch ofhelped candidates we saw get through the primaries. i would imagine the president is feeling pretty good about last night's results right now. staying with mark sanford just a bit, the republican congressman had been critical of president trump for a number of reasons. what does this say about future primary races and for republicans who are running, particularly in the house this year? mark sanford is the second republican to lose his nomination, second republican incumbent to lose the republican nomination in this cycle so far.

carolina, he also lost the primary. we will soon see if the republican from alabama's second district will be able to compete in a runoff for hersey's. i think you are seeing that republican divides in the party are magnified in a way that democratic divides are not right now. that is not to say that democrats do not have divides in their party, i think it is pretty clear, especially looking at the 2016 democratic primary, that there are major divides and we have seen those in a few races so far this year. it feels like given that republicans do not have the unifying enemy that the democrats have, some of these divides are going to have a pretty big effect on the actual election results this year. host: leah askarinam, let's look at virginia next.

barbara comstock, she will be running in that race. who is the challenger that came out of yesterday's primary? guest: state senator jennifer lexa and is coming out with the democratic nomination to face a republican incumbent. it is one of those districts where a republican incumbent is defending a seat that hillary clinton carried in 2016. it is one of the most-watched races on the house side this year, one of the most competitive along with the strongest republican incumbent who is fully prepared for a tough general election battle. what is interesting about jennifer lexa and's win last night is there were a handful of well-funded democratic candidate, many of them women, and jennifer what extent -- lexton was the first to come out as a top candidate last year, and a few others had the funding to get their foot in the door, their ads in the washington,

d.c. media market, which is expensive. it ended up being a relatively competitive race, but it was unclear if an elected official would have the advantage here, especially because she was the only top-tier elected official in the democratic primary. south carolina, virginia, nevada, and main holding primary elections yesterday erie in is leaving lepage that position, so there will be an open governorship. why is the main governor's race government race so interesting this year? guest: this year their ballot is reformatted, so voters can rank their first, second, third choice for candidates instead of just choosing one. thee hopes this will make final outcome more

representative of voter interest , and it was a question on the ballot last night whether maine would continue to use this. it seems to be passing at this point. again, it is a new process and i think there are still some -- there is still some counting going on up in maine, but it looks like it will likely be here to stay for a little while. host: i was going to ask you, the associated press has not called the race. you expect there will be continued counting this morning? guest: absolutely. from insideskarinam politics, looking at races and four primary states, south carolina, nevada, virginia, and maine. joining us today from inside elections. you can follow her what may lie ahead. we will get back to more of your calls in a bit. more views from our editorial pages as well. from capitol next hillbr