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—two of the machine's chief lieutenants—were defeated in close races by Republicans who garnered heavy support from the suburbs.
Byrd, nonetheless, went on to handily win the race for senator in a special election that November. But the cracks in the Byrd Machine—that continually placed at least one Harry Byrd in statewide office since 1925—were exposed.
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