Complex sentence: Cooper defeated Cissy Baker, an editor in Washington for the Cable News Network and daughter of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker with 66 percent of the vote and was reelected five more times with little substantive opposition, running unopposed in 1986 and 1988.
Split into simpler sentences: Cooper defeated Cissy Baker, an editor in Washington for the Cable News Network and the daughter of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker with 66 percent of the vote. He was reelected five more times with little substantive opposition, running unopposed in 1986 and 1988.