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The Republican establishment candidate in a key US Senate primary race handily defeated his tea party challenger, fueling the party's bid to defeat Democratic rivals in November elections. In the biggest early crunch vote of the 2014 campaign calendar, North Carolina state House speaker Thom Tillis beat tea party-backed candidate Greg Bannon by 18 percentage points. Tillis, who earned an endorsement from the party's 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, will now face vulnerable first-term incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan in what is expected to be one of the costliest and most crucial races in the GOP's efforts to win the six net seats needed to take back the Senate. Now, it's time to kick Senator Hagan out of office," Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said in a tweet.
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