When 23 Republicans crossed party lines last year and voted in favor of expanding Medicaid, many conservatives were warning of a wave of primary opposition this year.

But Stephen Farnsworth at the University of Mary Washington says that hasn’t happened. “There was such a hard-fought battle within the Republican Party, for example, over whether to sign up for Medicaid expansion. But among those Republicans who did work with the Democrats on Medicaid expansion, few of them are facing primary challengers right now,” Farnsworth notes.

More Democrats than Republicans Face Primary Challenges in 2019 (WVTF)