Arizona: Laura Knaperek

David Schweikert will win the 5th Congressional District Republican primary, PolitickerAZ.com projects.

With 97.6 percent of precincts reporting, Schweikert tops the six-person field with just under 30 percent of the vote. Susan Bitter Smith, who has kept pace with him throughout the night, currently has 28 percent of the vote, but it will not be enough to overcome Schweikert's lead.

SCOTTSDALE -- Jim Ogsbury knows how to walk neighborhoods. He doesn’t mess with marker caps anymore – “I got sick of fumbling with them,” he explains – now he’s got a retractable one to mark off houses on his walk sheet. He also uses it to knock on doors, joking he “must have permanent tissue damage in my knuckles” from all the doors he’s knocked. By his count, that’s now about 16,000.

Laura Knaperek, who is running in a field of six contenders for the Republican nomination in the 5th Congressional District, has released a white paper detailing her views on energy. In what she terms the "50% Doctrine," Knaperek is calling for the United States to produce 50 percent of its own energy by 2028, a 15 percent increase, she said, over today's level.

[img_assist|nid=1540|title=U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=386|height=300]Laura Knaperek, candidate in the 5th Congressional District Republican primary, has asked Arizona Democratic Party Chairman Don Bivens to facilitate a series of debates between her and U.S. Rep.