DENVER (AP) ? Doug Lamborn, Colorado's longest-serving Republican congressman, easily fended off a primary challenge Tuesday, his victory in hand even as ballot-counters in his home county closed up shop to escape heavy smoke billowing from a Colorado Springs wildfire. Colorado's 5th Congressional District, centered in El Paso County, is the state's most Republican by party registration, and has not chosen a Democrat since its creation 40 years ago. Speaking from a victory party abbreviated by the Waldo Canyon wildfire, Lamborn said he didn't worry despite being outspent by Blaha, who invested nearly three-quarters of a million dollars of his own money into his campaign. Known for perennial battles to dismantle public broadcasting, Lamborn also opposed the 2010 federal health care law and the 2009 economic stimulus package. Colorado's wildfires overshadowed its low-key primary elections, and Lamborn shut down his victory party early and sent people home. Officials in El Paso County, where most voters in Lamborn's district reside, sent election workers home early because of heavy smoke from the Waldo Canyon blaze.
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