Michigan’s high-stakes Democratic primary for US Senate seat too close to call – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. Read more of our primaries coverage here: Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez survives Washington’s crowded primary Incumbent Wesley Bell wins Missouri primary as Cori Bush comeback bid fails Missouri rejects citizens’ bid for vote on Trump-backed redistricting plan The major Democratic contest for Michigan’s US Senate nomination remains too close to call. About two-thirds of the votes throughout the state have been counted, with Abdul El‑Sayed, an epidemiologist and former public health official, is just three points ahead of establishment‑backed Haley Stevens, a US congresswoman. Also in Michigan, Jocelyn Benson clinched the Democratic nomination in the governor’s race and will face the John James, who won the Republican contest. Benson, the state’s secretary of state, will take on James, a congressman who received Donald Trump’s endorsement, to replace the term-limited Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in November. Further down ballot, William Lawrence, a progressive, won a competitive three-way Democratic primary race in Michigan’s seventh congressional district. Lawrence, a community organizer who co-founded the Sunrise Movemen