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Each week, we bring you a collection of the most viewed stories from The Daily Brew, condensed. Here are the top stories from the week of January 20 - January 24.
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TWO STATES’ GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS MAY FEATURE THE INCUMBENT GOVERNOR AGAINST THE INCUMBENT LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
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Seventeen states elect their governor and lieutenant governor separately, and currently three of them—Louisiana, North Carolina, and Vermont— have a lieutenant governor of a different party from the governor. Two of those states are holding elections for governor this year and both may require that the leading candidates balance working side-by-side on a day-to-day basis while battling one another on the campaign trail.

There have been 146 gubernatorial elections since 2010. During that time, two races featured an incumbent governor against the state's incumbent lieutenant governor, with both instances happening in the primary. But this year, North Carolina and Vermont may see the incumbent governor face the state's incumbent lieutenant governor in the general election.

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** 32 CANDIDATES—24 DEMOCRATS & EIGHT REPUBLICANS—ARE VYING FOR LATE CONGRESSMAN’S SEAT IN MARYLAND
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There is just a week and a half until the first congressional primaries of 2020—on Feb. 4—in the special election for Maryland's 7th Congressional District. Twenty-four candidates are running in the Democratic primary and eight in the Republican primary. The winners of each party’s primary will meet in the general election April 28.

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** SANDERS LEADS DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN BALLOTPEDIA PAGEVIEWS FOR SECOND STRAIGHT WEEK
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The first presidential nominating contest is in less than two weeks with the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 3. That is the first of four Democratic primaries or caucuses next month, including the New Hampshire primaries, the Nevada caucuses, and the South Carolina primary ahead of Super Tuesday on March 3.

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