Longest-serving GOP senator loses primary fight
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 8:14 PM EDT, Tue May 8, 2012
Indianapolis (CNN) -- The Senate's longest-serving Republican became the latest casualty of the struggle between the GOP's conservatives and moderates as a tea party-backed challenger beat Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar in Tuesday's primary.
Lugar conceded the race about an hour after the polls closed Tuesday evening, telling supporters that he congratulated State Treasurer Richard Mourdock on "a hard-fought race."
Mourdock will face Democrat Joe Donnelly in November in a contest the nonpartisan Cook Political Report calls safely Republican.
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Just what we need, another tea-party senator to get things moving in Congress. Not that I am for the republican that lost, but my God - talk about going from bad to worse. I hope this at least means good news for the Democratic challenger come November.
Not that I am for the republican that lost, but my God - talk about going from bad to worse. I hope this at least means good news for the Democratic challenger come November.