Elections are always a big event in the AP newsroom. With the results of critical primaries on May 19, the politics team and beyond delivered coverage that broke through with readers and outpaced competitors. The team synthesized the outcomes in all formats. The coverage included a retrospective on a renegade Republican Kentucky congressman who lost his reelection bid, a look at the growing “YOLO caucus” of Republicans, the long shadow of election denial in Georgia and young conservatives’ disenchantment with Trump and the GOP.
It didn’t stop there. Further afield, AP had coverage of an unusual matchup in California featuring two Republican incumbents and how Latino voters in metro Phoenix are questioning their past support of Trump. The team also pivoted to cover breaking news, including the surprise release of the Democratic National Committee’s botched autopsy report.
The work was comprehensive, timely and trenchant.
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