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Rep. Martha Roby won her Republican primary runoff Tuesday in Alabama, defeating a former Democratic congressman who gained traction attacking Roby as insufficiently supportive of President Donald Trump.

Roby had 67 percent of the vote to former Rep. Bobby Bright's 33 percent when The Associated Press called the race, with 43 percent of precincts reporting.

Roby had won reelection easily since she defeated Bright, a former Democrat, in 2010. But Roby lost Republican support to a write-in candidate in the 2016 general election after she said that she would not vote for Trump. Primary challengers, including Bright, picked up the charge in 2018 and held Roby to 39 percent in June's primary, short of the majority needed to win, prompting the one-on-one runoff.

But Roby worked to make amends with Trump, who tweeted an endorsement of her last month. And Roby and her allies highlighted Bright's Democratic past, including his vote for Rep. Nancy Pelosi for House speaker in 2009. See live results here.


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