Washington’s laborious vote counting procedure continues from the August 2nd all-mail jungle primary, and the biggest development is that Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Battle Ground) has not yet secured a general election ballot slot, and may in fact lose to challenger Joe Kent (R).
With just under 96% of the 3rd District votes counted, Democrat Marie Perez, with 31.2% of the vote, has clinched the first ballot position. Rep. Herrera Beutler barely holds the second qualifying position with 22.6% (41,603 votes) nipping Mr. Kent’s 22.5% (41,346 votes), a margin of just 257 votes with as many as 7,000 votes remaining to be counted. Since 45.1% of the voters chose either Herrera Beutler or Kent, it is reasonable to believe approximately 3,000 of those votes will determine the second-place qualifier. Of the remaining votes for either Herrera Beutler or Kemp, the latter man would need 54 to overcome the Congresswoman’s edge. In the 4th District, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Sunnyside) who, like Rep. Herrera Beutler, voted to impeach former President Trump, has clinched a general election ballot position with 25.4%, but with as many as 25,000 votes to count. In second place, also clinching a general election slot is Democratic businessman Doug White. Eliminated in third place is Trump-endorsed former town police chief and 2020 gubernatorial finalist Loren Culp (R). Turning to the 8th District, 2020 Attorney General qualifier Matt Larkin (R) has clinched second position over King County Councilman Reagan Dunn and 2020 general election qualifier Jesse Jensen. Mr. Larkin now advances to the 2022 general election to challenge Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Sammamish). This is evolving into a top competitive national congressional campaign. Ms. Schrier only secured 47.9% in the jungle primary, and the cumulative partisan totals suggest that a very tight general election is coming. The cumulative Democratic vote so far totals 97,341 with 91.3% of the expected vote tabulated compared to the cumulative Republican total of 96,572. Comments are closed.
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