Welcome to the Wednesday, June 3, Brew. Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day:

1. King defeated in IA-04 primary; Greenfield, Gianforte win statewide primaries in Iowa, Montana
2. Here’s what’s reopening this week
3. Filing deadline roundup

Yesterday saw a full day of primary and local elections and all of us at Ballotpedia were covering races until late into the night. Here’s a summary of key election results from across the country as of 12:00 a.m. ET. For the latest, visit our election results page here.

King defeated in IA-04 primary; Greenfield, Gianforte win statewide primaries in Iowa, Montana

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Iowa’s 4th District (R)

State Sen. Randy Feenstra defeated Rep. Steve King in the Republican primary for Iowa's 4th Congressional District. As of 10:30 p.m. Central Time, Feenstra had received 41% of the vote to King's 39%. No other candidate had received more than 10% of the vote.

Feenstra will face Democratic nominee J.D. Scholten in the general election. The last Democrat to win election from the 4th District was Neal Smith (D) in 1992.

King is the second member of the House to lose a primary this year. Marie Newman defeated Rep. Dan Lipinski in the Democratic primary for Illinois' 3rd Congressional District in March. In 2018, four members of the House were defeated in primaries: Michael Capuano (D-Mass.), Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.), and Mark Sanford (R-S.C.).

Iowa U.S. Senate

Theresa Greenfield defeated three other candidates to win the Democratic primary for Iowa’s U.S. Senate seat. As of 10:45 p.m. Central Time, Greenfield had received 48% of the vote and Michael Franken was second with 25%. If no candidate had received more than 35% of the vote, the Democratic nominee would have been decided at a party convention. Greenfield was backed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, EMILY's List, and the Iowa AFL-CIO.

Greenfield will face U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R) in the general election. Ernst defeated Bruce Braley (D), 52%-44%, to win her first term in 2014. The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, and Sabato's Crystal Ball all characterize the general election as Leans Republican.

Montana governor (R)

U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte defeated Attorney General Tim Fox and state Sen. Al Olszewski to win Montana’s Republican gubernatorial primary. As of 11 p.m. Mountain Time, Gianforte had received 53% of the vote to Fox's 29% and Olszewski's 19%.

Gianforte was the Republican nominee in 2016 and was defeated by Gov. Steve Bullock (D), 50% to 46%. Bullock is term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election. The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, and Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball all rate the general election as Toss-up.

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Here’s what's reopening this week

As we’ve been chronicling in our Documenting America’s Path to Recovery newsletter, states are allowing certain businesses to re-open or modifying restrictions on operations that had been implemented in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Forty-three states issued statewide stay-at-home or shutdown orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Stay-at-home orders are still in effect in eight states—California, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. All but New Hampshire have Democratic governors.

Here’s a look at some changes to business restrictions in various states that are taking effect over the next few days:

• Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) issued an executive order June 1 lifting the state's stay-at-home directive effective immediately and moving the entire state into Phase 4 of its reopening plan. The stay-at-home order had been set to expire on June 12. The order also allows retail stores to reopen tomorrow. Stores with less than 50,000 square feet of customer floor space must limit occupancy to 25% of normal capacity. For larger stores, the number of customers cannot exceed four per 1,000 square feet of customer floor space. Michigan is under divided government. 
• Casinos in Nevada can reopen on June 4, according to an announcement made by Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) on May 22. Nevada is a Democratic trifecta.
• New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced June 1 that the region around the state capitol—Albany—is expected to enter Phase 2 of the state’s reopening plan today. The Western New York region entered that phase yesterday. Under Phase 2, the following businesses and activities can resume: offices (50 percent occupancy), real estate, in-store retail (50 percent occupancy), vehicle sales, leases and rentals, retail rental, repair and cleaning, commercial building management (50 percent occupancy), and salons and barbershops (50 percent occupancy). New York is a Democratic trifecta.

As part of our coverage of the coronavirus outbreak, we occasionally look back at a story from 1918 to see how America met the challenges of holding elections during a national health emergency. The United States held midterm elections in 1918 during the Spanish Flu pandemic, one of the most severe in history.

Here’s an excerpt from an October 23, 1918, Indianapolis Star article discussing how a ban on public gatherings as a result of the influenza affected political campaigning ahead of the 1918 elections:

We include one of these historical stories in our daily summary of news coverage of the government’s responses to the coronavirus pandemic—Coronavirus Daily Updates. That newsletter provides an overview of the day’s events regarding COVID-19 and the associated policy responses. Click the link below to subscribe to this daily summary and stay up-to-date on the actions taken by federal, state, and local officials surrounding this situation.

Filing deadline roundup

Five states had filing deadlines on Monday and Tuesday this week for congressional or statewide offices—Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

The offices up for election in those states include: 

• 3 U.S. Senate seats 
• 23 U.S. House districts 
• 9 state executive offices
• 146 state Senate seats
• 449 state House districts

The primary elections for all five of those states will be held in August—Kansas (August 4), Hawaii (August 8), Wisconsin and Minnesota (August 11), and Alaska (August 18)—which will also include primaries for judicial and local offices.

The next statewide filing deadline for major-party candidates is on June 11 in Connecticut. On May 11, Governor Ned Lamont (D) issued an executive order reducing petition signature requirements for all candidates by 30 percent. He also extended the filing deadline for major-party candidates from June 9 to June 11.

The filing deadline for major-party candidates to run for Congress has passed in 45 states and for state executive, legislative, or judicial offices has passed in 44 states. In Florida, the filing deadline to run for Congress was April 24 and the deadline to run for the state legislature is June 12. In addition to Florida, the following states still have upcoming major-party candidate filing deadlines:

• Connecticut: 06/11/2020
• New Hampshire: 06/12/2020
• Rhode Island: 06/24/2020
• Delaware: 07/14/2020
• Louisiana: 07/17/2020

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