Democrat Donnelly Wins Indiana Senate Race Over Mourdock
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Democrat Joe Donnelly defeated Richard Mourdock for an open U.S. Senate seat in Indiana, one of Republicans’ must-win races in their effort to gain control of the chamber.
The contest between Mourdock, the state treasurer, and Donnelly, a three-term U.S. congressman, gave Democrats an opportunity to claim a long-held Republican seat. Mourdock, 61, an anti-tax Tea Party favorite, used an anti-Washington message to defeat six-term Republican Senator Richard Lugar by 20 percentage points in the party primary in May.