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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Joe Kent spar in vigorous, heated WA-03 debate

Glue­senkamp Perez, a small busi­ness own­er, skill­ful­ly and effec­tive­ly used her expe­ri­ence as the own­er of an auto repair shop through­out the debate to relate to peo­ple in the audi­ence and invite them to relate to her, while Kent leaned hard into right wing pop­ulist rhetoric in an attempt to make his mil­i­tant, dan­ger­ous ultra MAGA beliefs sound as appeal­ing and main­stream as possible. 

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A close contest in WA-03: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez narrowly trails Joe Kent, NPI poll finds

Only three per­cent­age points sep­a­rat­ed the can­di­dates in the sur­vey’s final head-to-head matchup, with Kent gar­ner­ing 47% and Glue­senkamp Perez 44%. 9% are not sure. Those fig­ures are almost iden­ti­cal to respons­es to the ini­tial head-to-head ques­tion, in which Kent got 48% and Glue­senkamp Perez got 44%.

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Jaime Herrera Beutler lost because WA-03 is becoming a more normal, nationalized district

Her­rera Beut­ler is a vic­tim of the fact that the Repub­li­can coali­tion in her dis­trict became increas­ing­ly rur­al. She became reliant on pro-Trump vot­ers who saved her in 2018, and as a result, when she broke with and then con­tin­ued to crit­i­cize Trump, she scared them away and no longer had enough votes to win.

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Joe Kent stays ahead in sixth Top Two Count; Jaime Herrera Beutler concedes defeat

“Thank you, South­west Wash­ing­ton, for entrust­ing me six times with the priv­i­lege of rep­re­sent­ing you in Con­gress,” said Her­rera Beut­ler. “Ever since I was first elect­ed to this seat, I have done my very best to serve my home region and our coun­try. Though my cam­paign came up short this time, I’m proud of all we’ve accom­plished togeth­er for the place where I was raised and still call home.”

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Patty Murray, Washington State Democrats celebrate a robust Top Two election showing

Wash­ing­ton State’s senior sen­a­tor demon­strat­ed that she is on track for reelec­tion, while three low-pro­file Demo­c­ra­t­ic con­gres­sion­al can­di­dates put up strong num­bers in the state’s Repub­li­can-con­trolled con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts. U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Kim Schri­er, mean­while, is hold­ing her own in a bat­tle­ground dis­trict against a trio of Repub­li­can opponents.