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Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) After several major candidates dropped out of Wisconsin's Democratic Senate primary within a week of one another, the party has coalesced around Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes with the goal of defeating incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. Three candidates Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, Outagamie Executive Tom Nelson and State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski all left the race just days before voting ended Tuesday. Soon after polls closed, Barnes was projected by ABC News to win the Democratic primary. Control of Congress' upper chamber could next be at stake in one of the country's fiercest battlegrounds, which Barnes' former rivals-turned-supporters cited in stepping aside. "Every day matters, and that's why the second I realized that there was no path forward, we made sure that we did what we thought was best for us to be able to defeat Ron Johnson," Lasry, who was arguably Barnes' stiffest competition, told