Primary Night: Cochran Ekes Out Win, More Races Decided

Sen. Thad Cochran has fended off Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel in Mississippi’s GOP Senate primary, according to CNN’s projection and HuffPo.

In New York’s 13th Congressional District, incumbent Democrat Charles Rangel looks poised to defeat a primary challenge from State Senator Adriano D. Espaillat for a second time. With 99% of the vote in, Rangel leads by nearly 1800 votes (an insurmountable 3.8% margin), though as of midnight none of the major news outlets has called the race.

CNN reports several other races have been decided:

• OK-Sen: “Rep. James Lankford won Oklahoma’s Republican primary, in the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Tom Coburn. With 95% of precincts reporting, Lankford, a minister and a member of the House GOP leadership, had 58% of the vote, while former state House Speaker T.W. Shannon, who was backed by a bunch of anti-establishment and tea party groups, had 34%, according to numbers compiled by The Associated Press. Five other candidates were on the ballot.”
• MD-Gov: “CNN projects that Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown will win the state’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. The two-term lieutenant governor faced off in an ugly primary battle against state Attorney General Doug Gansler and state lawmaker Heather Mizeur.”

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.