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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly.

  • There are election primaries today in five states, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington.

  • Each state has races for congressional seats.

  • In Michigan, voters will be choosing Republican and Democratic nominees to replace outgoing Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

  • Rick Pluta with Michigan Public Radio reports.

  • Whitmer is a two-term Democrat who cannot run again under Michigan's term limits.

  • Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson faces only a token challenge

  • on what appears to be a glide path for the Democratic nomination.

  • In the Republican primary, Congressman John James has President Donald Trump's support,

  • but multimillionaire businessman Perry Johnson is spending big money in an almost

  • entirely self-funded campaign anchored in a promise to eliminate the state income tax.

  • More than 1.2 million Michigan voters have already cast back.

  • For NPR News, I'm Rick Pluta in Ann Arbor.

  • Voters in Kansas will be choosing gubernatorial candidates to replace outgoing Governor Laura Kelly.

  • President Trump says the latest talks with Iran are that country's last chance

  • to reach a deal to end the war and avoid an escalation of U.S.

  • Strikes in the Middle East.

  • Iran insists it's only holding discussions with Oman.

  • More than two dozen states are suing the Trump administration

  • over new tariffs imposed on some of the U.S.'s largest trading partners.