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Mark MacDonald defends Orange County Senate seat from challenge by John Klar
https://vtdigger.org/2022/11/09/mark-macdonald-defends-orange-county-senate-seat-from-challenge-by-john-klar/Mark MacDonald defends Orange County Senate seat from challenge by John Klar
By Ethan Weinstein
Nov 9 2022
Longtime state Sen. Mark MacDonald, D-Orange, defeated Republican John Klar to keep his seat in Orange County.
In a closely watched race that Republicans hoped would hand them a seat in the upper chamber, MacDonald received 48% of the vote on Tuesday to Klar’s 38%, a wider margin of victory than MacDonald’s 2020 campaign against Republican Bill T. Huff.
The 79-year-old senator from Williamstown suffered a stroke in October, taking him off the campaign trail in the final weeks before the election. Instead, a team of surrogates took on MacDonald’s get-out-the-vote efforts.
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Klar, who was at the Vermont GOP election night gathering at the Barre Elks Lodge, told a reporter, “It's up in the air. I should have had a stroke. It would have been good. It's a big qualification these days.”
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By Ethan Weinstein
Nov 9 2022
Longtime state Sen. Mark MacDonald, D-Orange, defeated Republican John Klar to keep his seat in Orange County.
In a closely watched race that Republicans hoped would hand them a seat in the upper chamber, MacDonald received 48% of the vote on Tuesday to Klar’s 38%, a wider margin of victory than MacDonald’s 2020 campaign against Republican Bill T. Huff.
The 79-year-old senator from Williamstown suffered a stroke in October, taking him off the campaign trail in the final weeks before the election. Instead, a team of surrogates took on MacDonald’s get-out-the-vote efforts.
[...]
Klar, who was at the Vermont GOP election night gathering at the Barre Elks Lodge, told a reporter, “It's up in the air. I should have had a stroke. It would have been good. It's a big qualification these days.”
[...]
