PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden has won Oregon’s Democratic nomination to seek a third full term.
Wyden faced two lesser-known primary opponents. He had 89 percent of the vote with 25 percent of the expected vote counted.
Republicans have eight primary candidates. Party leaders are backing Jim Huffman, a law professor at Lewis & Clark College and newspaper essayist whose treasury consists in large part of his own $250,000 loan.
Wyden is widely favored to win in November in Democrat-leaning Oregon.
