**Want FOX News Halftime Report in your inbox every day? Sign up here.**On the roster: Primary fights get hot in the Sun Belt – Time Out: ‘I have a dream today’ – Poll shows Walker behind – House Republicans return early for DOJ, FBI grilling – Wet and nerdy PRIMARY FIGHTS GET HOT IN THE SUN BELT After a long, expensive primary season, we’ll get the verdict from voters in key races in Florida and Arizona tonight. The outcome could shape the battle for the control of the Senate as Republicans try to defend one of their most vulnerable seats. And the stakes are equally high in swing-state Florida where Democrats see their best chance in years to capture the swing state’s governorship. There’s a Republican runoff for Oklahoma governor, too. The race has gotten uglier and more stupid in the closing days, but we won’t bore you with the details because it would take an even more special kind of ugly stupidity for Republicans to blow it in a state redder than the Sooners’ end zone. We’ll keep you posted if that changes. ARIZONA: SPOILER ALERT Competitive races for Senate, governor, one key House districtAll polls close by 10 p.m. EDT It’s hard to say who exactly the spoiler is in the Arizona GOP Senate primary, but you’d probably have to give the title to former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The 86-year-old recipient of a preemptive pardon from President Trump never seemed to mount a serious campaign. But he’s still been good for consistent double-digit polling numbers. Having been the limelight-loving sheriff of the state’s most populous county for 24 years and a longtime ally of Trump (dating back to their failed effort to prove Barack Obama was a stealth Kenyan) has its advantages in an Arizona GOP primary. Remember, we expect to see more than half of the votes overall tonight come from Maricopa County, but the skew is even stronger among Republicans. The state GOP is heavily reliant on the suburbs north of Phoenix, places like Scottsdale and Surprise. Democrats do better with the large number of Native American voters who tend to dominate in rural counties to the North and with Hispanic voters around Tucson to the south. So it would be easy to say that Arpaio, who is hogging the GOP breadbasket but not otherwise running a credible effort, looks like the spoiler here. But that would mean there was something to spoil. And in this case, that’s not entirely clear. If Kelli Ward, a former state Senator from a screaming-red district near the California border, does as polls suggest and falls flat in her second straight attempt to win a Republican Senate primary, she and her supporters will be tempted to blame Arpaio. That will be especially true if Ward and Arpaio’s combined vote totals are equal or greater than those of expected winner, Rep. Martha McSally. And Arpaio and his campaign have certainly seemed to be on a seek-and-destroy mission against Ward in the closing days of the campaign. They accuse Ward of shady tactics and
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