Voters set the table for some of the country's most important 2022 midterm elections on Tuesday in multiple states.
Chief among them were contests for the Senate and governorship in Georgia, which has become a battleground state since the last presidential contest and has remained in the spotlight thanks largely to Donald Trump.
The former president has been openly hostile to fellow Republicans, namely Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who resisted his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.
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But beyond Trump's revenge tour there are other important battles that played out in Alabama, Arkansas and Texas.
Here are 7 important takeaways from Tuesday.
Kemp demolishes Perdue
The headline of the night goes to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who was likely Trump's biggest target of the primary season thus far.
Kemp fended off a challenge by former Sen. David Perdue, crushing the Trump-backed candidate by a roughly 3-1 margin.
The win is likely to be cast as a major rebuke of the former president, who had made Kemp one of his top campaign targets because the governor refused to help him reverse the 2020 election results.
Kemp supporters expressed an eagerness to unite behind the incumbent in the fall against Democrat Stacey Abrams.