On June 20, Al Gross said he will withdraw from the Alaska U.S. House race. He placed in the top four in the special primary, and the law permits withdrawal from the primary but says the withdrawal must be made at least 64 days before the general election. According to this story, Gross withdrew too late. But the story also says that the proponents of the top-four initiative say the intent is to have a shorter deadline for special elections. If the initiative proponents are right and the state allows the fifth-place finisher to join the special general election in place of the withdrawn candidate, then there will be three Republicans and one Democrat on the special general election ballot in August.

Various political activists in Missouri with Republican Party backgrounds are hoping to launch a petition drive for John F. Wood as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate. See this story. The petition would need 10,000 signatures by July 25.

New Mexico held primaries on June 7 for the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian Parties. Here are the results. Only party members were able to vote in any party’s primary, although independent voters were permitted to join a party on primary day. The largest vote cast in the Libertarian primary was for Lieutenant Governor; 1,169 votes were cast. By comparison, in June 2020, there had been 1,570 votes cast in the Libertarian primary for president.