Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly loses re-election in Indiana

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published 7 November 2018

Republican businessman Mike Braun has won Indiana's Senate race, ABC News and NBC News project.

Braun won with 53.7 percent of the vote over Donnelly's 42.1 percent, with 50 percent of precincts reporting, per The New York Times.

Donnelly was one of several incumbent Democrats fighting a tough race in a red state, seeing as Indiana went for President Trump by more than 20 points in 2016. Donnelly complicated his re-election bid by opposing Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, and Braun earned several campaign rally stops from President Trump right before the election. The race was in a dead heat in the polls up until Election Day.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.