Rhode Island’s Dan McKee became the first sitting governor to lose a primary in nearly a decade, bested not by a more progressive challenger or a more youthful upset but by frustration over a bridge.
McKee lost his Democratic primary to Helena Foulkes, a former longtime executive with Rhode Island-based retail pharmacy CVS, the Associated Press said on Wednesday.
“Tonight, we may have won the Democratic primary for governor, but let me be clear about what happens next: you will have a governor for everyone,” Foulkes said during her victory speech in the state’s capital, Providence. “Because there is so much work
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