Businessman Eric Hovde won the Wisconsin Republican primary for Senate, NBC News projects, setting up a critical battleground state race against Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin.
Baldwin’s seat is a top priority for both parties in the battle for control of the closely divided Senate.
Baldwin has also fared better than the top of the Democratic ticket in some recent Wisconsin polling.
An independently wealthy businessman, Hovde, who ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2012, has already loaned his campaign $13 million.
With Hovde long viewed as the favorite to win the GOP nomination, the two candidates have already been trading barbs.
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