Happy Wednesday! We've got numerous primary election results for you this morning.

• It looks like Mass. will keep its incumbent-friendly reputation — nearly every politician running for reelection will keep their seat.
• Plus, notable open seats went to the candidates already favored to win.

⛅ Today's weather: Partly sunny, with a high of 71 and a low of 62.

🎂 Happy birthday to our member Neal Faulkner!

🎸 Sounds like: "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor, who plays MGM Music Hall at Fenway on Saturday.

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At 80 years old, Sen. Ed Markey held off 47-year-old Rep. Seth Moulton's primary challenge yesterday, according to the Associated Press.

Why it matters: The win makes Markey one of the few incumbents nationally to survive a serious generational-change challenge this cycle.

• Instead of an anti-incumbent upset, Massachusetts Democrats backed the older, more liberal Markey over the younger, center-left Moulton.

State of play: Markey stuck to the left flank and pitched an ideological argument against Moulton's generational one.

• Moulton argued it was time for new leadership.
• Pre-election polling suggested Moulton had a shot at overcoming Markey's early lead.

What's next: Markey advances to face Republican John Deaton in November's general election.

• Deaton ran unsuccessfully against Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2024.

The bottom line: Massachusetts Democrats and left-leaning independents would rather have an old progressive than a generational shift.

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South Boston Rep. Stephen Lynch defeated a stiff primary challenge from attorney Patrick Roath, according to the Associated Press.

Why it matters: Lynch's win, in the Boston and South Shore-based district he's held since 2001, shows voters preferred experience and familiarity over new blood.

State of play: Roath, 39, outpaced Lynch on TV ad spending as the race heated up this summer.

• Roath had attacked Lynch's moderate voting record, including his opposition to the Affordable Care Act and support for the Laken Riley Act.
• Lynch, 71, campaigned on his seniority and committee standing, arguing experience matters in countering President Trump's administration.

What's next: Lynch advances to the November general election, where he's heavily favored.

The bottom line: Both major primaries where age was a factor went to the older incumbent in Massachusetts.

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🗳️ It's still too close to call in Watertown, Cambridge and parts of Boston, where Sen. William Brownsberger and challenger Daniel Lander are locked within 100 votes as of late last night. (The Harvard Crimson)

• The Norfolk District Attorney race is also in recount territory. (Globe)
• The AP hasn't called it yet, but Persis Yu looks to have defeated Sen. Mike Rush in southwest Boston. (Jamaica Plain News)

Former Marty Walsh and White House aide Dan Koh will succeed Moulton as the Democratic nominee on the North Shore, making him very likely the state's newest member of Congress next year. (Marblehead Independent)

• Koh beat out a crowded field that included state Rep. Tram Nguyen and John Beccia.

Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden easily turned away challenges from former DA Rachael Rollins and attorney Linda Champion. (WBUR)

🏛️ Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial told the judge yesterday they were deadlocked, but the judge sent them back to keep deliberating on their fourth day. (Boston Globe)

🔪 Harvard University Police lifted a shelter-in-place order yesterday morning after state troopers detained a man with a machete near Mount Auburn Hospital. (The Harvard Crimson)

🏈 The Patriots will break out their throwback "Pat Patriot" uniforms twice this season — against the Raiders on Oct. 11 and the Vikings on Dec. 10. (CBS Boston)

🐕 ICE plans to spend up to $2 million on "Spot" robots made by Waltham-based Boston Dynamics for its immigration enforcement operations. (WBUR)

• ICE says the robots will be used for inspection and hazard assessment, not as weapons. Boston Dynamics bars buyers from weaponizing its products.

🤖 Blue Voice, a Boston startup that gives police officers real-time policy guidance via AI, announced $6 million in funding led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC. (TechCrunch)

• Founder David Lawrence dropped out of Harvard Law to start the company.

Mike Minogue won the Republican primary for Massachusetts governor, the AP projects, setting up a general election matchup with Democratic Gov. Maura Healey in November.

State of play: Minogue is a wealthy former medical device executive. He poured millions of his own money into the race.

• Minogue leaned on a lopsided MassGOP convention win earlier this year to justify skipping debates with rival Brian Shortsleeve, a venture capitalist and Marine veteran who ran the MBTA under former Gov. Charlie Baker.

Between the lines: Both candidates campaigned on cutting taxes and ending the state's sanctuary status, but split on some social issues.

• Shortsleeve said Minogue's stance on abortion would hurt him with the moderate voters needed to win in the fall.

What's next: Healey, who beat Republican Geoff Diehl in 2022, starts as the strong favorite.

• Her campaign has already targeted Minogue's ties to President Trump, who remains deeply unpopular in Massachusetts.

🏢 Synergy refinanced its 101 Arch St. office tower in downtown Boston for $92 million — more than the $98 million it had put into buying and renovating the building — after signing over 220,000 square feet in new and extended leases.

🏗️ Skanska tapped longtime executive Abu Bhargava to lead its New England building operations, following a 13-year run with the firm that included major life-sciences, higher-ed and government projects.

🏘️ Developer Copper Mill has scrapped its long-contested plan for a 500-unit, up-to-26-story apartment tower in Somerville's Davis Square.

• The move ends years of neighborhood fighting over the project's scale.

🏫 Continuum Development is under contract to buy Franklin Cummings Tech's former South End campus and plans to build a 234-unit rental complex there.

Need deep-fried Indian goodness on the go in the Back Bay?

• SamosaMan has a vendor tent at the Copley Square farmers market.

What we ate: I got the spicy chicken samosa. It was just the right level of hot as I dashed into the BPL for a radio segment.

• They have a full selection of vegetarian and non-vegetarian samosas, including spicy potato, Punjabi, broc-n-cheese, Vermont Apple, chicken-cheese, turkey and steak-n-potato.

Deehan is old enough to remember when Mass. voters would provide at least a few surprises on primary night. Not anymore, it seems.

Steph regrets saying LPM is opening in the Seaport instead of the Back Bay. Sorry about that.

This newsletter was edited by Jeff Weiner.