On April 20th, the Washington State Republican Party endorsed candidates in seven out of ten executive and federal races that will be on the August and November 2024 statewide ballot. Read the list of who got the party’s backing.
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Mainstream Republicans of Washington unveil endorsements in four 2024 statewide races
The group, which has a long history of representing the now-shriveled reasonable wing of the Washington State Republican Party, is backing Dave Reichert for Governor, Jaime Herrera Beutler for Commissioner of Public Lands, Raul Garcia for U.S. Senate, and Chad Magendanz for Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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Poll Watch: Right wing firm Echelon Insights drops another skewed survey to boost Dave Reichert’s gubernatorial ambitions
Read NPI’s analysis of a fatally flawed March 2024 survey conducted by a Virginia-based, Republican aligned polling firm for a right wing group hoping to influence media coverage of Washington State’s 2024 gubernatorial race.
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Senator Maria Cantwell widens lead over Republican rival Raul Garcia to sixteen points
53% of 789 likely 2024 Washington State general election voters said they would support Cantwell if the election for U.S. Senate were being held now. 37% said they would support Garcia, Cantwell’s expected Republican general election opponent. Another 10% were not sure.
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Senator Maria Cantwell leads Republican challenger Raul Garcia by thirteen points
51% of 700 likely Washington State general election voters polled in November of 2023 said they would support Cantwell. 38% said they would support Garcia, which is the same percentage who said they’d support Donald Trump in a rematch with Joe Biden. 11% were not sure.
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Republicans in Washington State cannot just ignore King County and expect to win
Republican candidates can win statewide, but that means they need to appeal to voters in King County, because, despite new party chairman Jim Walsh’s claims, there just are not enough votes in Eastern Washington to overturn King County’s whims.
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Raul Garcia exits gubernatorial race in favor of Dave Reichert, will run for U.S. Senate
”I think it would be fiscally irresponsible… for all my donors and for all of Dave’s donors for that matter to get in a 12-round heavyweight dog fight with him… when we share so many ideals and so many values of the same,” Garcia said in remarks broadcast by KING5.
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Maria Cantwell retains fifteen point lead over hypothetical opponent Jaime Herrera Beutler
The incumbent Democratic senator continues to enjoy a fifteen point lead over hypothetical Republican opponent Jaime Herrera Beutler, a margin unchanged from our last survey back in March.
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Democrats in Washington lost ground with Latino voters despite 2022 wins, data shows
Democrats in Washington declared the 2022 cycle a resounding victory, but a 17% decline in support within the state’s fastest-growing minority group spells trouble for the party’s future.
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NYT admits its midterms coverage was wrongly wedded to a “red wave” narrative
“Not for the first time, a warped understanding of the contours of a national election had come to dominate the views of political operatives, donors, journalists and, in some cases, the candidates themselves,” the story penned by the trio of Jim Rutenberg, Ken Bensinger, and Steve Eder acknowledged.
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The November midterm results are (mostly) in. How do they compare to our 2022 polling?
In this retrospective, NPI’s founder and executive director assesses what our 2022 electoral poll findings were able to tell us about state and county-level races on the midterms ballot.
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How American women caught up with Mitch McConnell and obstructionist Republicans
While the price they paid is steep, American women have delivered a comeuppance to Mitch McConnell. The Senate Republican leader sowed the wind in February of 2016. He is reaping the whirlwind in 2022.
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Republican Tiffany Smiley concedes defeat to Democratic U.S. Senator Patty Murray
“This evening I reached out to Senator Murray and her campaign to congratulate her on her victory after a hard-fought race,” said Smiley. “I cannot thank my family, my team and the wonderful people of Washington state enough for their support over the past 18 months.”
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Patty Murray, Kim Schrier, Steve Hobbs improve in second count of 2022 midterms
The Washington State Democratic Party’s three highest profile 2022 candidates each managed to build on their strong Election Night performance on the second day of counting, putting more distance between themselves and their opponents.