. >> this morning, we knowho i poised to take vincent gray's place to take hischair, kwame own. for the d.c. incumbent at large, he beat out mhael brown and clark ray. and prince george's county, baker beat out four other opponents including sheriff michael jackson, with 55% of the vote. elaine reyes joins us where baker is holding a press conference this midday. >> reporter: a lot of smiles this morning, baker has a substantial lead. most ofhe night last night. he all, there is no republican candidate in the race. now, making a good county great was the slogan. richard baker is a former delegate who ran for prince george's county. he has promised to improve the systems, and make the county government more responsive. the results came in slow last night because of technical difficulties, that didn't stop the bakecamp from celebrating. >> i think the people have spoken. i think the message was loud and clear. prince george's county, i is time to make a good county great. >> reporter: baker walking in the roo as we speak. going ahead and listen to his remarks as they take place. >

republicans of being fiscally irresponsible, but admitted that his own policies have not worked as quickly as hoped. congressional correspondent kwame holman reports. >> we got some business to do today. >> reporter: just eight weeks from election day, the president made his pitch in cleveland today to help the sputtering u.s. economy >> that means making long-term investments in education and clean energy; in basic research, technology, and infrastructure. >> reporter: and he also took a stand against extending the bush era tax cuts for the top 2% of earners, setting up a pre- election fight with republicans in congress. he accused the g.o.p. of being mr. obama repeatedly singled out republican house leader john boehner, who spoke in cleveland two weeks ago about his party's economic agenda. >> there were no new policies from mr. boehner. there were no new ideas. they would have us borrow $700 billion over the next ten years to give a tax cut of about $100,000 each to folks who are already millionaires. >> reporter: sustained unemployment near 10% and flagging growth are the main reasons the president's party is staring down potent

own power. a small ruckus broke out when fenty supporters tried to block cameras from filming the crash. >>> in the race to replace vincent gray, at-large councilman kwamewn handily beat former councilmember vincent orange and dorothy douglas. >>> now to the council at large seat, phil mendelsohn won the democratic primary despite concern that name confusion over another candidate might cost mendelsohn the seat t did not. he will face david schwartzman in november. >>> in ward one, jim graham won the democrat you can primary with 57% of the vote there. >> incumbent harry thomas, jr. defeated three challengers in the ward five democratic party. >>> the race for d.c.'s congressional delegate, eleanor holmes norton captured 91% of the vote in the democratic primary. she faces challengers from both the republican and statehood green parties in november. >>> again, the results results on all the primary races in d.c. and maryland will continue to control across your screen this morning during our newscast. >>> straight ahead on fox 5, we have good news from the commerce department after all of that back to school shopping. we'll have the latest on the econom