- Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi defeated a tea-party-backed challenger in a runoff election Tuesday for the Republican nomination
- In an Oklahoma Senate GOP primary for the seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, won by Rep. James Lankford, a member of the House GOP leadership whose principal challenger was tea-party-backed T.W. Shannon
More at Wall Street Journal: Thad Cochran Beats Tea Party-Backed Challenger in Mississippi GOP Senate Runoff
