Former state Senate leader Brenton Awa leaves GOP to serve as independent

In a Republican Party shake-up in the state Legislature, former state Senate leader Brenton Awa, who lost his long-shot effort to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda to represent Hawaii in Congress, has left the Hawaii Republican Party to continue his term in the Senate as an independent, leaving Republicans with only two state senators in the Legislature.

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