Facing mounting pressure, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Thursday he would recuse himself from overseeing the vote-counting process in the too-close-to call Kansas Republican gubernatorial primary. Kobach is battling incumbent Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer for a chance to run against Democratic state Sen. Laura Kelly in November. Colyer, the state’s former lieutenant governor, took office after former Gov. Sam Brownback was confirmed in January as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.

It’s still three months until midterm elections will decide the balance of power in Congress, but Tuesday’s tight primary races and a special election in Ohio could indicate a tough road ahead for candidates.

Four states hold primaries Tuesday, and a bellwether special election in Ohio will help determine whether Democrats take back control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections. In Ohio, Democrats hope to flip Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi’s House seat and break a 30-year dry streak in that district. Tiberi resigned in January to take a job in Ohio after expressing frustrations with Republicans in Washington. Polls have shown the lead between the candidates flip-flopping between Democratic Franklin County Recorder Danny O’Connor and Republican state Sen.

President Donald Trump admitted Sunday his son met with Russians in 2016 to get negative information on political opponents but claimed it was legal. Trump tweeted Sunday: “This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal … and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!” The Trump team has provided a series of conflicting explanations for the June 2016 meeting.

U.S. national security officials held a rare joint news conference Thursday during the daily White House press briefing to highlight their agencies’ efforts to protect U.S. political campaigns and elections from outside interference.

“U.S. Cyber Command [and] the National Security Agency are tracking a wide range of foreign cyber adversaries and are prepared to conduct operations against those actors attempting to undermine our nation’s midterm elections,” NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone told reporters.

The fall midterms will be fought in thousands of towns and cities nationwide. But if you want to get a quick idea about the outcome, go to Miami, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia. Together these areas include 13 in-play House seats and contain concentrations of the types of voters up for grabs in other places.

A GOP runoff Tuesday for Georgia’s gubernatorial race sets up a November face-off between a self-described “politically incorrect conservative” and a Democrat who wants to become the nation’s first African-American female governor. Republican Brian Kemp, a two-term Georgia secretary of state, trounced longtime Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle with the help of an endorsement from President Donald Trump.