Delaware Democrat Sarah McBride won her primary for a reliably blue state Senate seat

Delaware progressives defeated four moderate state legislators, including state Senate President Pro Tempore David McBride, in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries. Democrats control both chambers of the legislature, and there’s little question that Team Blue will maintain its majorities this fall.

We’ll start with McBride, who lost to social worker Marie Pinkney by a 52-48 margin in SD-13, a seat McBride had held since 1980. McBride was the most powerful member of the Delaware Senate, but he’d cultivated a conservative record during his long tenure. In 1989, for instance, McBride unsuccessfully pushed for the state to resume using the whipping post to punish drug offenders.