HONOLULU, Aug. 9 -- The results arriving from Honolulu's mailboxes Saturday night settled a question Hawaii Democrats had spent the summer arguing over: whether the party's 73-year-old incumbent congressman, having crossed the aisle to support Trump-backed voting restrictions, deserved another term. He did, by a wide margin.

Ed Case, who has represented Hawaii's 1st Congressional District since 2019, secured more than 60 percent of the Democratic primary vote against state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. The race had been flagged by national political observers as one of the cleaner tests this cycle of whether a progressive challenger could unseat a moderate incumbent in a deep-blue state. The answer,...