Democrat Joe Donnelly of Indiana has defeated Republican Richard Mourdock for that state’s Senate seat, Fox News reports.
Donnelly, a congressman from northwest Indiana, had been favored in the final polls of the campaign, particularly after a media firestorm over comments Mourdock made in an October 23 debate that “God intended” pregnancies resulting from rape.
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