Mccain Wins Arizona Primary in Race for Fifth U.S. Senate Term, AP Reports
Arizona Senator John McCain avoided a primary defeat after three decades in Congress, fighting off a Republican challenger, the Associated Press said.
McCain defeated former congressman and radio talk-show host J.D. Hayworth, withstanding an anti-incumbency trend that threatened his candidacy earlier this year and putting him in a position to win a fifth Senate term in November.
McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, captured 59 percent of the vote to Hayworth’s 30 percent with 11 percent of the votes counted, according to AP. Jim Deakin, a contractor with no elective-office experience who competed with Hayworth for the support of Tea Party activists, won 10 percent.
To contact the reporter on this story: Hans Nichols in Washington at hnichols2@bloomberg.net
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