Republican Rep. Tom Cotton, a Harvard-educated Iraq War vet first elected to Congress in 2012, has defeated Arkansas Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor, according to a CNN projection.
With Cotton's win, Arkansas will have two Republicans in the U.S. Senate for the first time since the 1870s.
Pryor, a two-term senator and son of a former Arkansas governor, had been a top GOP target.
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