Don Tracy, a 75-year-old Springfield attorney and the oldest of 12 children, won the Republican primary for the US Senate in Illinois on Tuesday night. He will face Democratic Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton in November in a race he is widely expected to lose.
Tracy is arguably the least-known statewide primary winner in America tonight. An Emerson College poll in January found that 84% of Republican primary voters were undecided. However, Tracy pulled through on the strength of party endorsements and a $2.1 million (£1.6 million) fundraising haul that dwarfed his rivals.
