NEW YORK – As Donald Trump's party met, a 28-year-old Liberal activist toppled Democrat Joe Crowley in the president's hometown Tuesday night, a staggering defeat that forced Democrats to confront their own internal divisions .

Crowley, the No. 4 Democrat in the House and until Tuesday envisioned a possible candidate to replace Nancy Pelosi as a leader, lost the first competitive primary that he had encountered in addition to one. decade to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former assistant to Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy.

The loss of Crowley, the first defeat of the primary season for a Democratic incumbent. Failed across the political world, sending the unequivocal message that the persistent divisions between the pragmatic and liberal wings of the Democratic Party could expand in the early years of the Trump presidency.

"Perhaps he should have been kinder and more respectful to his president!" Trump tweeted, strangely taking credit for a victory by a more liberal candidate than Crowley.

Overall, Trump was right to celebrate Tuesday night as his three endorsed candidates survived the major challenges that could have embarrassed him and the party.

Those included former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who once labeled Trump "a fraud", but has changed direction in the past two years.

None of the contests of the day mattered more to Trump than the one in South Carolina. Governor Henry McMaster, one of the first and strongest supporters of the president who survived an unusually difficult challenge from a political newcomer, the Republican self-made millionaire John Warren.

The White House has gone to the governor in recent days, sending the president and vice president to the state in order to prevent a political debacle.

Trump has a mixed track record when he is campaigning for other candidates: His favorite candidates have suffered staggering losses in Alabama and in western Pennsylvania in recent months.

Voters voted Tuesday in seven states as the 2018 mid-term battleground continues to take shape: South Carolina, New York, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Maryland, Colorado and Utah.

With the November general election, just over four months later, more than half of the states had chosen their candidates after counting the final votes of the day.

The story suggests that Trump's Republican Party, like the parties of virtually every first president of Ronald Reagan in 1982, will suffer losses this fall.

Yet Crowley's loss suggests that Democrats must overcome intraparty divisions if they hope to take control of Congress and key governors' offices nationwide.

In New York, Ocasio-Cortez presents herself as a working-class immigrant girl, rejecting Crowley as an elitist out of the community.

"These results are also a low blow to the Democratic establishment in Washington: a young, diverse, and decidedly daring resistance movement is not waiting to be anointed by the powers it affords. place, "said Matt Blizek, of MoveOn, who supported Crowley's challenger.

Elsewhere in New York, convict Michael Grimm lost his political return attempt, which was good news for Trump.

Grimm had held the Staten Island seat until 2015, when he pleaded guilty to knowingly hiring immigrants who were illegally in the country to work in his Manhattan restaurant and cook the books to conceal incomes and escape taxes.

Given his political baggage, a Grimm victory would have jeopardized the seat of this fall's general election.

Over 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) away in the dark red Utah, former Massachusetts governor Romney defeated Mike Kennedy, a little-known Rep state, who questioned Romney's conservative qualifications and his ability to work well with the president. Romney, too, has been approved by Trump despite his aggressive criticism of Trump prior to his election.

In a rosary published in The Salt Lake Tribune, Romney wrote that Trump's administration policies exceeded his expectations, but he promised to "keep talking when the president says or does something that divides, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions. "

Do not forget: races to determine candidates for governorship in Maryland, Colorado and Oklahoma. Oklahoma also decided to legalize the cultivation, possession and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

In Maryland, the state election council contacted up to 80,000 voters whose registration information had not been updated, the result of a computer problem. Voters affected by the problem were asked to vote, which would not be counted until July 5, officials said. They added that the problem was related to a programming error and not to an infiltration from an outside source.

The most telling test of Trump's influence was in South Carolina, where McMaster – raised to the post of premier of the state last year when Nikki Haley became ambassador of the United States. United – had seemed threatened. Two weeks ago, the governor failed to win the Republican Party's primary victory, demanding a second round of voting with Warren.

McMaster shocked even his closest advisers when, as Lieutenant Governor in early 2016, he became the first elected official nationwide to support Trump's candidacy for the White House.