The Democratic primary that ousted Rep. Cory Bush drew heavy outside spending and attracted national attention in Missouri’s primaries on Tuesday. But voters also picked nominees in another expensive House race that leans Republican, and tapped a Democratic challenger to a firebrand Republican senator.
In the open 3rd District, a former Republican state senator who had the backing of Donald Trump defeated a one-time legislative colleague in a GOP primary that drew $8.2 million in outside spending.
Bob Onder, a founder of the Missouri Senate Conservative Caucus, the state’s version of the House Freedom Caucus, edged past Kurt Schaefer, another former state senator, in Tuesday’s GOP primary.
