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Moderate Democrat Ed Case defies progressive challenge in Hawaii primary (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Zaktor@sopuli.xyz to c/usa@midwest.social

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The moderate Democratic representative Ed Case has seen off a progressive challenge to retain his party’s nomination for the US House of Representatives election in Hawaii’s first congressional district.

Case, who has represented the district in Washington DC since 2019, prevailed in Saturday’s primary over Jarrett Keohokalole, the state senator.

Keohokalole, 43, had argued during the campaign in Hawaii that the time had come for a new generation of political leadership in the state.

With 91% of votes counted, Case had won 60% of the vote, according to the Associated Press. Keohokalole, in second place, had 36.1%.

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

The worst representative compared to district lean won reelection. He's only in office because he won a crowded primary with 40% of the vote in 2018 and Hawaii really favors its incumbents.

Keohokalole ran (as far as I saw) a pretty bland campaign about "it's time to change" rather than focusing on Case blocking Biden's initial BBB or voting for the SAVE Act. No real defined policy in the ads I saw other than "things are more expensive". Ed Case leaned heavily on him being on the Appropriations committee though I can't remember him bringing back any meaningful money.

Hawaii's elections are pretty much decided in the primary and you only need to declare which primary you're voting in on the ballot. There were likely Republicans voting in the primary as the Republican primaries are basically inconsequential.