Millionaire Wins GOP Senate Primary
A millionaire who many Republicans fear is too conservative to win in November defeated an abortion-rights supporter in a GOP primary for the right to challenge embattled Democratic Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun. State Comptroller Loleta Didrickson, a moderate backed by much of the GOP establishment, conceded to state Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, who poured more than $7 million of his family’s banking fortune into the race and mustered strong support among religious conservatives. In a Democratic primary for governor, U.S. Rep. Glenn Poshard defeated three Chicago attorneys.
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