Booker Tops Tea Party Republican to Win U.S. Senate Seat
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker beat Tea Party-backed Republican Steven Lonegan in New Jersey’s special U.S. Senate election, after a race the candidates cast as a referendum on the partial federal government shutdown.
Booker topped Lonegan, 55 percent to 44 percent, according to unofficial results from the state Elections Division. The mayor will serve the remaining 15 months of the term of Senator Frank Lautenberg, who died in June, in a capital riven by partisan battles over spending, debt and health care.