Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey has fended off a challenge to his decades-long political career, beating Rep. Joe Kennedy in the Senate Democratic primary
Kennedy told supporters he had called Markey to concede the race on Tuesday evening. The longtime legislator won the primary by campaigning as the most progressive person in the race, while emphasizing his roots as the son of a milkman from Malden.About a year ago, when it became clear that the congressman would run, Markey visited his parents' gravesite, contemplated what to do, what his parents would do, and concluded he had to run for reelection, according to campaign manager John Walsh.
He said he led political revolutions since at least the 1980s, when he introduced the nuclear freeze resolution and nearly a million people gathered in New York's Central Park to demand an end to the nuclear arms race.Kennedy countered by poking holes in Markey's long record, including his votes for the Iraq War, NAFTA, the Patriot Act and the 1994 crime bill.
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