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		</div><p>US senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts has defeated Joe Kennedy III in a Democratic primary.</p>
<p>Mr Markey had harnessed support from progressive leaders to overcome the challenge from a younger rival who is a member of America’s most famous political family.</p>
<p>It marks the first time a Kennedy has lost a race for US congress in the state. Mr Kennedy is the son of former representative Joe Kennedy II, the grandson of Robert Kennedy, and the grand-nephew of John F Kennedy.</p>
<p>Mr Markey appealed to voters in the deeply Democratic state by aligning himself with the liberal wing of the party.</p>
<p>He teamed up with a leading progressive, New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, on the Green New Deal climate change initiative – and at one point labelled Mr Kennedy “a progressive in name only”.</p>
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<p>That helped Mr Markey overcome the enduring power of the Kennedy name in Massachusetts.</p>
<p>The 39-year-old congressman had sought to cast the 74-year-old Mr Markey as someone out of touch after spending decades in congress, first in the house of representatives before moving to the senate.</p>
<p>At a victory celebration in his hometown of Malden, Massachusetts, Mr Markey ticked off a series of priorities, from support for the Black Lives Matter movement to a call for Medicare for All, to combating climate change, a signature issue for Mr Markey.</p>
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<p>“Every other problem is linked to it,” he said.</p>
<p>“No solution to any challenge will be successful unless we address it. There will be no peace, no justice and no prosperity unless we stop the march to climate destruction.</p>
<p>“We must pass a Green New Deal.”</p>
<p>Of President Donald Trump, Mr Markey said: “He is the most corrupt, most racist, most incompetent president in American history.</p>
<p>“We must banish his agenda of division and destruction to the history books.”</p>
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<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Democratic representative Mr Kennedy said that while the results are not the ones he had hoped for, he would work for Mr Markey’s re-election in the November poll.</p>
<p>He said: “The senator is a good man. You never heard me say otherwise.”</p>
<p>Mr Kennedy also suggested that the movement of supporters the campaign pulled together would continue past the current election.</p>
<p>“We may have lost the final vote count tonight but we built a coalition that will endure,” he said. “I would do this again with all of you in a heartbeat.”</p>
<p>In the waning weeks of the campaign, Mr Kennedy had leaned into his family’s long political legacy in Massachusetts. His pedigree includes former president John F Kennedy; former US senator and US attorney general Robert F Kennedy, his grandfather; and former US senator Edward Kennedy, who held a senate seat in Massachusetts for nearly half a century until his death in 2009.</p>
<p>Mr Markey countered by leaning into his own family story – growing up in the working class city of Malden with a father who drove a truck for the Hood Milk company.</p>
<p>The incumbent now faces a general election contest where he is considered a strong favourite against Republican primary winner, Kevin O’Connor, in November.</p>
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