NASHVILLE, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander survived a primary challenge in Tennessee, handing another loss to the Tea Party in its bid to unseat establishment Republicans.
Alexander had 329,929 votes to 269,8883 for state Sen. Joe Carr, according to unofficial results from the Tennessee Department of State. George Shea Flinn won 34,568 votes in Thursday's primary and Christian Agnew 11,214, while two other candidates had less than 10,000 votes each.