AEHQ: Primary Election Roundup
Voters in a half-dozen states made some big decisions Tuesday night.
FOX News Radio’s Rachel Sutherland has the results of some key races:
Several key races were decided that could have an impact on the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
In Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell held off a challenge from a Tea Party candidate and will take on the Democrat Kentucky Secretary of State:
(Grimes) ”I’m Alison Lundergan Grimes and with your help I will be the next United States Senator from Kentucky.”
Senator McConnell says if that happens, nothing will change in Washington…
(McConnell) ”A vote for my opponent is a vote for Obamacare, and the President who sold it to us on a mountain of lies.”
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal took the Republican nomination, allowing him to run for re-election against former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson, state Senator Jason Carter.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats picked millionaire Tom Wolf to take on Republican Governor Tom Corbett in November.