State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey won the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in West Virginia on Tuesday, beating former coal executive Don Blankenship and calming the fears of party leaders who thought the brash ex-convict would spoil their chance to pick up a Senate seat. In Indiana, businessman Mike Braun defeated two members of Congress in a bitter race for the Republican Senate nomination and will face off against incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly in one of November's top races. In Ohio, where liberal Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown is another top Republican target, U.S. Representative Jim Renacci won the battle for the Republican Senate nomination over Cleveland-area investment banker Michael Gibbons. In November, Democrat Richard Cordray, the former head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will face Republican state Attorney General Mike DeWine.Cordray defeated Dennis Kucinich, the former Cleveland mayor, member of Congress and presidential candidate, in a battle of liberal favorites. In North Carolina, Republican U.S. Representative Robert Pittenger lost renomination to pastor Mark Harris.

Source: dna May 09, 2018 13:52 UTC