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Washington: Mainstream US Republicans led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defeated Tea Party challengers in key primaries on Tuesday, setting the stage for their bid to regain full control of Congress in November.

Republicans lead the House of Representatives and are determined to wrest the Senate from President Barack Obama's Democrats in this year's mid-term elections.

Voters in six states, from Georgia in the US southeast to the Pacific northwest Oregon, cast ballots on what became known as the "Super Tuesday" of the 2014 campaign. But most eyes were on Kentucky, a key battleground between traditional Republicans and members of the party's more conservative, populist "Tea Party" wing.

The anti-establishment fervor sweeping much of the country seems not to have taken as strong a hold in Kentucky, and well-funded veteran incumbent McConnell, 72, trounced Tea Party backed challenger Matt Bevin in one of the most expensive - and closely watched - primaries of 2014.

If he is reelected in November, and if Republicans gain a net six seats in the 100-seat chamber to regain control, McConnell would lead the Senate majority and be positioned to block Obama's legislative efforts in his last two years in the White House.

"Send me back to Washington and Kentucky will always have a champion in the Capitol," McConnell told cheering supporters in his victory speech.

But he faces perhaps the most formidable election challenge of his 30-year Senate career in Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, who won her party's primary and immediately set her sites on ousting McConnell.

"Mitch McConnell would have you believe that President Obama is on Kentucky's 2014 election ballot," Grimes told supporters, referring to McConnell warning voters that Grimes would merely be a back-bencher for a president pushing his unpopular health care law and other liberal mandates.

"Senator McConnell, this race is between you and me," the 35-year-old Grimes said. "That's the name that appears on the ballot."

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Washington (CNN) -- Establishment Republicans, backed by business-friendly outside groups, launched a counter-offensive this year against conservative Senate challengers after two election cycles of hard-right candidates winning GOP primaries but losing in November.

Republicans need to flip six seats this year to win back the majority and don't want the same scenario to play out again. The tea party's scorecard this year is far different than in 2010 and 2012, when it knocked off several establishment-backed candidates.

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It's too early to say if the party's over, but as Stuart Rothenberg of the non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report wrote earlier this month, "it's already clear that the pragmatist conservatives have stopped the anti-establishment's electoral momentum."

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WASHINGTON Republicans in Georgia are fighting to the finish in one of the most crowded and competitive Senate primaries in the country.

The race along with primaries in five other states on Tuesday -- will, like many others this election season, test the staying power of the Tea Party movement. And they will set the stage for what is expected to be a grueling midterm fight where Republicans are determined to flip the Senate.

A total of seven candidates are running in the GOP primary for an open seat in Georgia left by retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

Among the candidates is millionaire businessman David Perdue -- the cousin of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue -- and Rep. Jack Kingston, 22-year veteran of Congress.

Kingston and Perdue have been leading the polls,with former secretary of state Karen Handel following close behind.

Others in the packed race include Rep. Phil Gingrey and Rep. Paul Broun the outspoken physician who nabbed national headlines for calling evolution and the Big Bang Theory lies straight from the pit of hell.

A runoff is considered likely. If none of the candidates in Tuesdays race receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two will head to a July 22 runoff. The winner will then take on the Democratic rival in Novembers elections.

A May 14 Insider Advantage/Fox 5 Atlanta/Morris News Service poll has Perdue leading the pack with 27 percent of the vote. Kingston comes in at 19 percent, followed by Handel at 17 percent.

Of the top three, Handel is perhaps closest with the Tea Party movement, and has been endorsed by Tea Party Express. Tea Party-backed Ben Sasse won in last week's Nebraska GOP Senate primary, one of the few primary victories the movement has claimed so far this year.

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