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Six Takeaways From the Massachusetts Primaries

Senator Ed Markey, 80, trounced a younger challenger who had made an argument for generational change. Two other longtime Democratic lawmakers hung on, too.

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Senator Ed Markey, who has served in Washington for 50 years, easily beat back a challenge from a younger Democrat.
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Longtime Democratic Congressman Defeats Progressive Rival in Massachusetts

Representative Stephen Lynch, 71, a centrist, beat Patrick Roath, 39, in a primary that reflected the party’s generational and ideological divides.

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Representative Stephen Lynch’s victory puts him in a strong position to win another term representing Massachusetts’s Eighth Congressional District.
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