Good morning. We’ll start today with results from the primary elections. Then we’ll discuss the operation to get President Trump out of Turkey after last month’s NATO summit.

Election results

In Wisconsin, David Crowley, a moderate, won the Democratic nomination for governor in an upset. Polls had consistently shown Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, with a double-digit lead.

In South Carolina, Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey Graham, who died last month, will face Representative Ralph Norman, a hard-line conservative, in a Republican runoff for Graham’s Senate seat.

And in Minnesota, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who was endorsed by Bernie Sanders, won the Democratic primary for Senate. She will face Michele Tafoya, a former N.F.L. sideline reporter, in November.

Some other notable races:

• Michael Alfonso, the 26-year-old son-in-law of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, won a Republican primary for a House seat in Wisconsin.

• Lisa Demuth, the speaker of the Minnesota House, defeated the MyPillow C.E.O. and Trump ally Mike Lindell in the Republican governor’s primary. Demuth will face Senator Amy Klobuchar.

• In Connecticut, the long-serving congressman John Larson, 78, was unseated by Luke Bronin, 47, in a Democratic primary that focused largely on age.

See more election results here.

Trump’s great escape

Sometimes a little trickery helps keep presidents safe.

In 2003, officials said that George W. Bush would be spending Thanksgiving at his Texas ranch, but he absconded overnight to Baghdad to surprise American troops there. Bush’s wife and parents were in the dark — and so were forces loyal to Saddam Hussein that might have attacked Air Force One. Three years before that, Bill Clinton quietly slipped into an unmarked plane on his way to defuse nuclear tensions between Pakistan and India. The regular Air Force One, with Secret Service agents aboard, flew the same route as a decoy. “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night,” as Sun Tzu put it.

That appears to be what President Trump had in mind after last month’s NATO summit. He told reporters he would leave Turkey on an older version of Air Force One (rather than the Qatari-donated 747 that he had flown in on). He went so far as to walk on board the jet and wave to news cameras. But it was all a ruse: There was a credible threat against the president from Iran, officials said. So Trump climbed into a catering truck and rode to a military jet nearby.

How the deception unfolded

Trump boarded the powder-blue Air Force One from the plane’s left side. The catering container — a truck with a giant metal box on rising stilts — was parked on the right. Footage shows the truck backing away as journalists board the back of the jet. Once on board, reporters were told to keep their window shades down, an unusual request.

Trump then flew on the military jet from Turkey to Britain. There, the president was secretly brought back to the older Air Force One by vehicle, without reporters noticing. Soon after, he walked off the plane, pretending that he had been on board all along.

The scheme was developed and carried out by a small group of top officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, after U.S. intelligence learned about a specific threat of a surface-to-air missile against whatever plane Trump would be flying on. (I was surprised to learn yesterday that Clinton, too, had once ridden off Air Force One in a catering container during a trip to Finland.)

One thing made this presidential deception different from previous ones, Peter Baker writes. Reporters believed they were flying alongside the president. In truth, officials had turned a plane full of them and other government employees into unknowing bait for an Iranian strike. Peter talked to one former press secretary who compared them to “human shields.”

For more: Listen to today’s episode of “The Daily,” where the White House correspondent Maggie Haberman talks about the operation’s risks.

THE PATRIOT GAMES

Here’s a dispatch from my colleague Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House reporter, who was in Ohio yesterday to cover a new Trump-backed competition called the Patriot Games.

It was Ninja Warrior meets high school sports meets MAGA.

The event, organized as part of the country’s 250th birthday celebration, offered students — a girl and a boy from each state — a chance to win a combined $250,000 toward college scholarships. The president watched as teens raced through a neon-lit obstacle course that included monkey bars, climbing nets and swinging rings. A fog machine shrouded the proceedings in mist.

At times, the competition had the feeling of a Trump rally. One attendee shouted “2028” after the president arrived, prompting Trump to smile. “U.S.A.” chants broke out often. When it all ended, and “Y.M.C.A.” played on the speakers, Trump and some of the competitors began to dance.

THE LATEST NEWS

Politics

This afternoon, mainland Europe will see its first total solar eclipse in decades. The path of totality — that is, where onlookers can see the moon cover the sun entirely — cuts across Iceland and northern Spain. (In the United States, a partial eclipse will be most visible in Alaska and in the Northeast.)

Katrina Miller, a science reporter, wrote a guide to viewing the eclipse, and she’s answering readers’ questions in the comments. Here’s one:

More space news:

OPINIONS

Trump is 80 years old and hasn’t looked well. The public needs answers to these seven questions on his health, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, Dick Cheney’s White House cardiologist, argues.

A face-lift at age 47 has helped Molly Jong-Fast look younger and feel good, she writes. Does that make her a bad feminist?

1,049

— That’s the height limit, in feet, for buildings in Miami. Right now, the city has no towers that tall. But by 2030, there will be four. Despite worries over rising sea levels and hurricanes, the skyline keeps getting taller.

SPORTS

W.N.B.A.: The Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White pushed back against online critics who called for her firing after she seemed to defend a hard foul against one of her own players.

N.F.L.: Kyler Murray will be the starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings in Week 1, sending J.J. McCarthy, the 2024 first-round pick, to the bench.

Soccer: Cristiano Ronaldo married Georgina Rodríguez, his partner of a decade, in an intimate ceremony in Portugal.

RECIPE OF THE DAY

This BLT doesn’t depend on the perfect tomato or, for that matter, on bacon with pedigree. Instead, there are a few simple tricks to this recipe that elevate even the lowliest ingredients. Considering we’re in peak tomato season, though, you’ll enjoy the sandwich even more if you use the juiciest tomato at the farmers’ market.

Related: How much do you know about everyone’s favorite summer produce? Take our tomato quiz.

RETRO ROMANCE

Perhaps you’ve seen it while scrolling through Instagram: a grainy video of a man or a woman, apparently from the 1980s, trying to find love through a video dating service. The VHS Dates account has nearly 900,000 followers and a fascinating origin story — “The box of VHS tapes was found in the basement of our office in Downtown L.A.”

And none of it, it turns out, is real.

The creators came clean to our reporter Sopan Deb. Read the story here, or watch the video above.

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