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 Roberts secured 48 percent of the vote and Milton Wolf 41 percent
in the four-candidate field, according to final but unofficial
results, the Kansas secretary of state said.
Roberts has had a 47-year career in Congress and faced conservative
challenger Wolf, who said he wanted to "save the Republic."
Wolf acknowledged a distant family tie to Obama but built his
campaign on promises to repeal many of the Democratic president's
policies. In an interview with CNN, Wolf promised "the mother of all
family feuds to save America," if elected.
In primary battles ahead of November's midterm elections, Roberts'
showing marked a victory for an incumbent Republican, a pattern that
played out more broadly as voters went to the polls in other U.S.
states on Tuesday. Missouri, Michigan and Washington state also held
primaries.
In Kansas' 4th Congressional District, incumbent Republican
Congressman Mike Pompeo won 63 percent of the vote to beat
challenger Todd Tiahrt with 37 percent.
Pompeo, backed by powerful food and agriculture companies, has
introduced legislation to nullify state efforts to require labeling
on foods made from genetically modified crops.
In Missouri, Republican John "Jay" Ashcroft - whose father, John
Ashcroft, was Missouri governor, U.S. attorney general and a U.S.
senator - won about 54 percent of the vote in his bid for an open
seat in the state senate against attorney Jack Spooner, who carried
nearly 36 percent with all precincts reporting.
Five of Missouri's U.S. Representatives face primary challengers but
are expected to hold their seats going into November's election.
NARROWLY BEATEN
In the Republican primary in Michigan, Tea Party-backed incumbent
Justin Amash, member of a rebel group of U.S. House conservatives
known for their resistance to compromise, declared victory over
challenger Brian Ellis.
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Also in Michigan, U.S. Representative Kerry Bentivolio, a reindeer
farmer and Santa Claus impersonator, was defeated by challenger Dave
Trott, making Bentivolio the third incumbent Republican congressman
to lose in a primary so far this year.
In Washington state's fight to represent the 1st Congressional
District, early results in the vote-by-mail race showed Republican
Robert Sutherland narrowly beating retired Microsoft engineer Pedro
Celis, each with about 15 percent of the vote.
Celis, former chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly,
was expected to win the primary easily to face off in November
against the incumbent Democrat, U.S. Representative Suzan DelBene.
In the state's 4th District, ex-Washington Redskins football player
Clint Didier seemed likely square off against former state
agriculture director Dan Newhouse, in a
Republican-against-Republican race to succeed retiring 10-term U.S.
Congressman Richard "Doc" Hastings.
(Additional reporting by Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, Calif.;
Writing by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Alison Williams)
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