Kweisi Mfume lost a primary campaign for the United States Senate seat that was being vacated by which American politician and attorney?
Paul Sarbanes Paul Spyros Sarbanes (born February 3, 1933) is an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party from Maryland he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 and as a United States Senator from 1977 to 2007. Sarbanes was the longest-serving senator in Maryland history until it was surpassed by Barbara Mikulski by a single day when her term ended on January 3, 2017.
Kerry Bentivolio Kerry Bentivolio (born October 6, 1951) was the United States Representative for Michigan 's 11th congressional district , in office from 2013 to 2015. Bentivolio, a Republican, defeated Democratic nominee Syed Taj, a physician, in the November 6, 2012 election. The seat was vacated by Representative Thaddeus McCotter, who resigned from Congress on July 6, 2012, and was briefly held by Democrat David Curson of Belleville, Michigan. He was defeated for the Republican nomination in his bid for a second term by attorney David Trott. He launched a write-in campaign for the November 2014 general election but lost again to Trott.