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Voters in six states cast their ballots yesterday. The results reveal ongoing conflicts in both parties ahead of the November midterms. In Democratic primaries in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Connecticut, voters leaned toward younger, more progressive candidates who oppose President Trump’s immigration policies. Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a progressive candidate, won her U.S. Senate primary over a centrist opponent. In Wisconsin, democratic socialist candidate Rep. Francesca Hong was narrowly defeated by Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley for the gubernatorial nomination. Amid low approval ratings, Trump’s endorsements had mixed outcomes in the Republican primaries. Trump-endorsed Sen. Darline Graham got enough support to advance to a runoff election for her late brother Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat. But despite the president’s support, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell lost his primary for governor of Minnesota. Here are four key takeaways from last night’s elections.

• 🎧 Minnesota has not gone for Trump in the last three presidential elections, Minnesota Public Radio’s Clay Masters tells Up First. He adds that it’s important for Republicans in the state to be willing to disagree with the president. Lindell lost to the state’s Speaker of the House, Lisa Demuth, who was widely seen as the establishment favorite despite lacking Trump’s endorsement and that of the state’s Republican Party.

President Trump has confirmed that he was secretly moved from Air Force One to a different aircraft while in Turkey last month due to a threat from Iran. Aboard the president’s regular plane were White House staff, military personnel, Secret Service and journalists, essentially serving as unknowing decoys.

• 🎧 The press and the White House have a level of cooperation to ensure the president’s movements are independently covered, especially in high-risk situations, NPR’s Tamara Keith says. Often, embargoes are used to prevent information from being released until the president is safe. But Keith says the Trump administration ditched the press entirely and went to great lengths to continue the ruse after the immediate danger had passed, including having the Justice Department send FBI agents to serve subpoenas to journalists covering the security issues related to that flight. White House journalists traveling with the president work to ensure that the American public doesn’t have to rely solely on the government’s word on what happens. This role is even more crucial during times of war and rampant conspiracy theories, Keith says.

Iraq’s new prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, has promised Trump that he will disarm Iran-backed paramilitary groups, which are on the Iraqi government payroll but operate independently from the government. Since the start of the U.S. and Israel’s war in Iran, these militias have intensified their attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions and military installations in Iraq.