Though polls looked close in the final days of the race, Randy “Iron Stache” Bryce comfortably won his primary for the Democratic Party’s nomination in retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan’s, R-Wis., congressional district on Tuesday.

But it wasn’t a cake walk for Bryce, who was plagued by a steady stream of bad press that will certainly follow him into the general election.

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