While polls were held in many states before the November midterm elections that will determine the Congressional seats in the USA, democratic socialist Angie Nixon achieved a surprise victory in the Democratic Party Senate primary election in Florida.
This result adds to a string of victories won by left-wing opposition candidates this year, with the support of Democratic voters disappointed by the party's establishment as too old and inadequate to fight against Republican President Donald Trump.
Although this move creates excitement in the left wing of the party, analysts warn that efforts to capture the majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate in the general elections in November, where both voters from both parties and independents will vote, may become difficult due to this situation.
Similar intraparty divisions did not occur in Alaska.
In the state's unique and nonpartisan U.S. Senate primary, Democrat Mary Peltola out-polled incumbent Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan.
Democrats see this race as one of their best opportunities to capture one of the four seats they need to win control of the 100-seat Senate in November's midterm elections.
The Senate race in Florida is not considered promising for Democrats.
While the state, which has been a critical battleground in the past, has increasingly turned towards the Republicans in recent years, analysts state that it has become even more difficult to win this seat with Nixon's victory.
Nixon, 42, who took an active role in the labor movement in Florida, was reprimanded this year for disrupting a vote in the Florida House of Representatives by protesting the bill on redistricting electoral districts in the state with a pink megaphone.
Nixon defeated former national security official Alex Vindman, known for his testimony to Congress in 2019 during Republican President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial.
Vindman, who collected 16 times more donations than Nixon, was seen by analysts as having a better chance of defeating incumbent Republican Senator Ashley Moody in November's general election.
The winner of the race will complete the remaining two years of the term of former Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who now serves as Trump's secretary of state.
On the other hand, although Alaska has not had a Democratic senator since 2014, the race here is considered competitive.
Peltola, a moderate figure who previously held the state's only House of Representatives seat, easily advanced to the general election in November by receiving 48 percent of the votes in the race in which 93 percent of the ballot boxes were opened, against Sullivan, who received 42.8 percent.
Peltola could take advantage of Alaska's preferential voting system, which could allow him to solidify his support among independent voters.
The Democratic candidate could also benefit from a contest between two Republican rivals with very similar names.
Republican Dan J. Sullivan, a retired teacher, came in third place in the primary with 2.4 percent of the vote.
Although the Republican party leadership has tried to remove Dan J. Sullivan from the ballot, it has not been successful so far.
While Trump called himself a "crook", the US Department of Justice launched an investigation into whether this candidate entered the race to confuse voters and steal votes from the current senator, according to a source familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters. Dan J. Sullivan told other news organizations that was not his intention.
In the state's other Congressional race, incumbent Republican Rep. Nick Begich III made it to the general election.
Former school superintendent Bill Hill, who is on the ballot as an independent but has donated to Democratic candidates in the past, also made it to the general election.
