Ed Markey crushed challenger Seth Moulton by about 30 points in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary, a bad sign for Democrats who built their brand on anti-Trump TV appearances.

• Moulton, young and heavily promoted on cable news, lost badly to an 80-year-old incumbent, so age was clearly not the problem.
• Markey is still riding the goodwill from backing the Green New Deal with young climate activists in 2020.
• Moulton spent years attacking his own party's left, which made his late attempt to sound angry and tough ring hollow.
• Powerful Ways and Means Democrat Richie Neal barely survived a challenge, winning by a few thousand votes with almost no national attention.
• In an open House seat, a former Biden official won with heavy backing from a pro-AI super PAC, while a candidate who refused crypto and AIPAC money finished fourth.

Outlook: New Hampshire votes next week, where Chris Pappas faces a low-budget challenger running against war spending and big donors, and in Michigan the Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has pulled ahead of Republican Mike Rogers as Trump's Canada trade fight rattles the auto industry.