I knew they already had the presidential primary but why would they have two primary elections? Was it perhaps a caucus?
Just curious.
They’re separate contests. States keep moving back their Presidential primaries (almost now to the point they’re a year before the general election), but the federal (non-Presidential)/statewide office primaries mostly occur in the Summer. They hold 2 separate primaries because a Presidential race overshadows all those lesser contests. My personal opinion is that they hold those Presidential primaries way too early. They probably ought to be moved forward to where they used to be in the Summer, if not coinciding with the state/federal primary or a month earlier, so folks can campaign separately.