Yesterday was primary election day in Illinois. It was a day of "Oh! So close!"

In a stunning upset, Chicago’s Democratic machine suffered a big defeat on Tuesday night, as Cook County’s Assessor Joseph Berrios was defeated in a Democratic primary by insurgent Fritz Kaegi. As of this writing, Kaegi had 45 percent of the vote to Berrios’s 34 percent. A third candidate, Andrea Raila, had 21 percent. Berrios has conceded.
The Chicago Tribune marked the victory as a watershed moment for the activists who had backed Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid in 2016.
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Several other downballot races also featured strong performance by upstart candidates. Daniel J. Burke, who has been in the state house since 1990, was defeated in his Democratic primary by Aaron Ortiz. Ortiz is an educator and high school counselor at a public school in the Chicago area, and ran on establishing tuition-free undergraduate college, legalizing marijuana, single payer health care, and ending cash bail. In the 4th House District, Delia Ramirez won her primary by a large margin. Brandon Johnson, a Chicago teachers-union organizer, edged out machine-aligned Richard Boykin in a startling upset.

All four candidates were backed by United Working Families, a coalition group formed to challenge the corporate dominance of politics, and linked with the Working Families Party.

That sounds great, but the biggest profile election had an unhappy ending.

Lipinski survived a progressive primary challenge from Marie Newman on Tuesday for his Chicago-area House seat. His close win (51% to 49%) came despite an intense effort by pro-abortion rights and women's groups -- including Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America and EMILY's List -- to purge the party of the anti-abortion lawmaker in a reliably Democratic district. He will face Arthur Jones, the Holocaust denier, in the general election.

So close!
Lipinski won by just 1,600 votes.
He'll easily beat a right-wing kook, which won't prove anything, but the DCCC will claim that it means the Dems must be like Republicans.

Meanwhile, another vote was happening in Washington D.C.

The Senate voted 55-44 Tuesday afternoon against taking up a resolution to end U.S. military support for a Saudi-led coalition that has killed thousands of civilians in Yemen ― which means the controversial policy will continue, but so will the growing Capitol Hill debate about it.

Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) introduced the bill to end the American role in the war three weeks ago, and it attracted high-profile co-sponsors like Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

But Senate leaders, notably top Senate Foreign Relations Committee figures Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), said the proposal was too hasty and should return to committee, and the Trump administration invested heavily in convincing lawmakers it would unwisely damage the American partnership with the Saudis. Menendez and nine other Democrats ― Sens. Chris Coons (Del.), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Joe Manchin (W.V.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Doug Jones (Ala.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) ― ultimately aligned with all but five Republicans to kill the bill.
...Earlier Tuesday, Sanders said it would be cowardly and irresponsible for lawmakers to oppose putting his bill to a vote.

What do you know? The same DINOs that vote with Republicans on things like deregulating Wall Street.
Sanders was right again. They are cowards.

Finally, one piece of interesting news about the DNC.

But the red ink for current DNC Chair Tom Perez keeps getting deeper. The DNC is $6 million in debt and according to FEC records, just took out another $2 million loan to keep daily office activities operational.
..The RNC is also destroying the DNC on small donations.

The DNC is still toxic.