Jessica Scarane is at 32,536 votes, 3000 more than Kerri Harris won in 2018. Why'd she lose? Because the total primary vote grew at least 40% from 2018, a record-setting primary year.
For comparison: Just 49,615 Democrats voted, total, in the 2012 Senate primary.
#DESen
For comparison: Just 49,615 Democrats voted, total, in the 2012 Senate primary.
#DESen
The defining Democratic voting trend of the Trump era is a surge of suburban liberals and moderates, the people who turned out for presidential elections before but ignored primaries. More than any Senate primary, I think the MI presidential primary demonstrated what this means. 
A few folks (like @ryangrim) wrote about this; in 2018, Kerri Harris beat her "win number." The problem was that the campaign under-rated the number of suburban moderates who'd been activated by Trump and would rush to save Carper. And Coons found 10s of thousands more.
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