Nixon & Daniels Advance in Florida Primary, Trump Delays Canada Tariffs

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**Nathan Hager** (0:10)
Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager.

**Karen Moskow** (0:11)
And I'm Karen Moskow. Here are the stories we're following today.

**Nathan Hager** (0:15)
Karen, we begin with results from the latest primary elections. Voters headed to the polls in three states, plus a special House election in California. But the biggest upset of the night was in Florida, where a Democratic Socialist beat an establishment candidate in the Democratic Senate primary. With 99% of votes counted, Angie Nixon defeated Alex Vindman 56% to 44%.

**Angie Nixon** (0:37)
Thank you for your tireless work. For the late nights, the too-often-thankless work.

**Nathan Hager** (0:45)
Angie Nixon won despite a 16 to 1 fundraising advantage for Alex Vindman. She'll go on to face Republican Ashley Moody in November. She was appointed to Phil Marco Rubio's seat when he became Secretary of State.

**Karen Moskow** (0:57)
Well, Nathan, the Florida governor's race was less of a surprise. Congressman Byron Donalds won the Republican primary with 48% of the vote despite a challenge to his right from social media influencer James Fishback.

**Byron Donalds** (1:10)
Because of your sweat, because of your hard work, we have won a massive victory.

**Karen Moskow** (1:18)
And Byron Donalds had President Trump's endorsement of more than $100 million in his campaign war chest. Fishback came in third place with 10.5% of the vote. Donalds will now face Republican-turned-democrat David Jolly, who won the Democrats' primary with 61%.

**Nathan Hager** (1:34)
And Karen, there were also important House races in Florida last night. Establishment Democrats came out ahead in redrawn districts. Former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz won in the 20th district with 45%.
She'd been criticized for running in one of the nation's few remaining plurality black districts. And Congressman Jared Moskowitz defeated Democratic Socialist backed Oliver Adams Larkin in the 25th district, 63.5% to 36.5%.

**Karen Moskow** (1:59)
There's also an important race in Alaska, Nathan, that could determine control of the Senate in November. With 70% of the votes counted, Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan will advance in the state's open primary. Peltola has 47.3% of the vote to Sullivan's 44%.
The Democrat has won state-wide before, and she served a full term as Alaska's lone House member before losing to Republican Nick Begich in 2024 The primary included a second Dan Sullivan, a retired school teacher with a similar name. He came in a distant third and with 2.5% of the vote.

**Nathan Hager** (2:37)
As for some other key races last night, Karen, the Republican backed by President Trump won the primary for retiring Senator Cynthia Lemus' seat in Wyoming. Congresswoman Harriet Hageman won that race with 65% of the vote. She'll go on to face James Byrd, who won the Democratic primary with 79%. The president's preferred candidate for Wyoming governor came up short. Rancher and state senator Eric Barlow beat Superintendent of Education Megan Degenfelder 45 to 30%. Barlow will face Democrat Kenneth Kastner, who ran uncontested for governor. And in the special runoff in California to serve the rest of former congressman Eric Swalwell's term, Aisha Wahab leads fellow Democrat Melissa Hernandez 51 to 49%.
Both candidates are also on the ballot for a full term in November.

**Karen Moskow** (3:21)
Well, Nathan, we also have global trade in focus this morning. The Trump administration delaying 50% tariffs on billions of dollars of Canadian products for three days. Less than two hours before the tariffs were sent to take effect, President Trump on social media said the two countries reached a tentative agreement to resolve a broader trade dispute. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney was not as definitive, stopping short of saying an agreement had been reached. We get more from Bloomberg's senior US government editor, Derrick Wallbank.

**Derrick Wallbank** (3:49)
This is a very positive sign that we're going toward a deal, and there had been a lot of worries in Ottawa and elsewhere in Canada that this was going to be a major problem coming now. Last-ditch diplomacy pauses in effect.

**Karen Moskow** (4:03)
And Bloomberg's Derrick Wallbank says the two countries conducted almost $900 billion of trade with each other last year.

**Nathan Hager** (4:09)
I want to get you to the latest developments in the Middle East now, Karen. President Trump insists there are no talks ongoing with Iran, and that leaves the conflict and controlled the Strait of Hormuz in limbo. We get more from Bloomberg breaking news editor Patrick Sykes.

**Patrick Sykes** (4:22)
The direct confrontation between the US and Iran appears to be on hold, and what we have instead of these isolated attacks on US partners or allies in the region, in the Gulf in particular, mostly being interestingly denied by Iran. We had a few days ago, there was a drone attack on the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan's office, and then just overnight, we had this missile attack against the UAE. In both cases, Iran denied being connected to those attacks, and it suggested that they might be flag operations designed to implicate Iran in a new escalation of tensions.