the Democratic primary in the state's 3rd Congressional District. He spent six years in the Obama administration, most recently serving as the director for Iraq on the White House National Security Council.

On previous primary election nights, Rich Cordray, former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Betty Sutton, an Obama appointee at the U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, advanced their joint-ticket bid to be governor and lieutenant governor in Ohio, while Colin Allred won in Texas' 32nd C.D.About the IFS

The Institute for Fiscal Studies was founded in 1969. Established as an independent research institute,
IFS was launched with the principal aim of better informing public debate on economics in order to promote
the development of effective fiscal policy. Through the establishment of rigorous independent research,
for example the IFS Green Budget and Post Budget analysis,
IFS successfully opened up debate about public policy to a wider audience and influenced policy decision making.

Today, IFS is Britain’s leading independent microeconomic research institute. Its research remit
is one of the broadest in public policy analysis, covering subjects from tax and benefits to education policy, from labour supply to corporate taxation.
Our research not only has an impact on policy makers, think tanks and practitioners,
it has also gained a worldwide reputation for academic rigour, and