- Rep. John Boozman (R-Ark.) handily won the GOP nomination to challenge whoever wins the Democrats’ primary for U.S. Senate, giving the party the candidate it wanted.
- In Arkansas’s 1st District, restaurant owner Rick Crawford rolled past Princella Smith, an African American Hill staffer who’d racked up support from establishment conservatives and appeared in multiple stories about the crop of 2010 black Republican candidates. Crawford won 72.8 percent of the vote to 27.2 percent for Smith.
- In Oregon’s 5th District, State Rep. Scott Bruun won the GOP nomination to challenge Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) — Bruun’s second attempt at winning this seat after coming short 14 years ago.
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