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Coats wins Indiana’s GOP primary
He turns back two candidates in race for a U.S. Senate seat
by Chris Cillizza
Former senator Dan Coats tri- umphed in Indiana’s Republican Senate primary on Tuesday night, beating out two candi- dates who had sought to upend the longtime legislator by tap- ping into the energy of the na- tional “tea party” movement. Coats, who was heavily recruit- ed into the Senate race by nation- al Republicans, collected 39 per- cent of the vote, with nearly all precincts reporting. State Sen. Marlin Stutzman was second with 30 percent, and former con- gressman John Hostetter was third with 22 percent. Stutzman’s result came as
something of a surprise, given that Hostettler was much better known around the state after spending more than a decade in Congress. But Stutzman seemed to benefit from the endorsement of South Carolina Sen. Jim De- Mint, an emerging conservative leader. DeMint said that Stutz- man had “exceeded all expecta- tions with an unwavering com- mitment to conservative princi- ples” despite coming up short. Coats moves on to face Rep.
Brad Ellsworth (D) in the fall election. Ellsworth, who has rep- resented a southern Indiana dis- trict since 2006, will formally be- come his party’s nominee on May 15 — a process necessitated by Sen. Evan Bayh’s (D) retirement. Bayh’s departure came so close to the state’s filing deadline that no Democrat was able to gather the signatures to make it onto the ballot, leaving the decision up to a group of party officials. National Republican Senatori- al Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Tex.) sought to seize on that selection process as an issue Tuesday night. “Unlike the Dem- ocrat[ic] party bosses who plan to hand-pick their nominee this month without an open primary election, Republicans in Indiana have participated in a spirited, open, and inclusive primary con- test over the last several months,” Cornyn said. Democratic Senato- rial Campaign Committee com-
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Dan Coats, formerly a U.S. senator, with wife Marsha, collected 39 percent of the vote in the first step toward getting his old job back.
munications director Eric Schultz retorted that Coats was a “deeply flawed candidate” and a “Washington lobbyist.” Indiana was one of three states
that held primaries Tuesday. In Ohio, Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher bested Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to win the Democratic Senate primary. He will face for- mer congressman Rob Portman (R) in November. Fisher has struggled badly to deliver on the initial promise of his candidacy, but national Dem- ocrats insisted that a staff shake- up several months ago had led to a turnaround. Fisher also ben- efited from Brunner’s inability to raise much campaign cash, which allowed him to run several weeks of television ads with no response from his opponent. Fisher begins the general elec- tion at a significant cash deficit to Portman, however. In North Carolina, Secretary of
State Elaine Marshall (D) and former state senator Cal Cun- ningham (D) are headed for a June 22 runoff after neither can- didate broke 40 percent of the vote. That result buys national Dem-
ocrats a bit more time to assist Cunningham. The national party helped recruit Cunningham into
the race under the belief that he was the candidate best equipped to beat Sen. Richard Burr (R), but he underperformed on the fund- raising front and struggled to make up ground against the bet- ter-known Marshall. Democrats view Burr, who won the seat in 2004, as one of the most vulner- able Republican incumbents in the country. The Indiana race drew the
most attention of all the races on Tuesday’s ballots because some cast it as a referendum on the power of the tea party move- ment. Coats’s victory came after a surprisingly difficult primary campaign in which he struggled to adjust to Democratic attacks on his past lobbying work, and to deflect a statement he made in 2008 that he planned to move to North Carolina when he retired. Polling suggests that Coats
starts the general election as a slight favorite, although Demo- crats insist that the problems he encountered in the primary will be magnified come November. At the House level, embattled
Indiana Reps. Mark Souder (R) and Dan Burton (R) won their re- spective races. Burton topped a field of seven despite drawing less than 30 percent of the vote.
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