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About 7,500 ballots are still left to count in Clark County from Tuesday’s primary, but the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is already throwing support behind Carolyn Long.
Long is trailing Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, with 35.34 percent of the vote to Herrera Beutler’s 42.13, but Long is winning in Clark County by 1 percent.
Long has been added the national organization’s Red to Blue program, joining 66 other candidates...
All the talk this year about California’s Top Two primary system may have obscured the fact that Washington State has used Top Two (in which the first and second place finishers in any primary, regardless of party or percentage of the vote, proceed to the general election) since 2008. And for decades before that, Washington had a similar but not identical “blanket primary” allowing voters to participate in either party’s primary for any one post, until the Supreme Court...
Aug 8, 2018 - KXL
Vancouver, Wash. — U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, and Democratic challenger Carolyn Long sat down for a nearly 2-hour debate hosted by the Columbian Editorial Board.
The two covered many topics including Tax Reform, Health Care, The President’s Demeanor, Impeachment, Town Halls and Border Security.
The Columbian posted the video of the debate to YouTube:
In yesterday's primary election, there were few surprises as familiar names dominated the results. (All results reported here were as of 8:26 p.m. last night.)
In the crowded field of candidates for the U.S. senate, Maria Cantwell took 57.49 percent of the vote statewide with 403,451 votes. Her closest challenger, Republican Susan Hutchison, garnered 23.39 percent with a total of 164,142 votes. In Klickitat County, it was Cantwell with 2,024 votes for 45.62 percent and Hutchison with...
Preliminary results released the day after the Aug. 7 primary election show Democrats doing well locally with the front-runner challenger for the 3rd Congressional District taking first place among Clark County voters.
The second round of results show Democrat Carolyn Long as the candidate with the most votes in Clark County at 40.4 percent. Incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, was in second place with about 37.8 percent of the vote.
In a distant third was...
Republican U.S. representative, Democratic challenger state their positions side by side in front of The Columbian's Editorial Board a day after advancing in Tuesday’s primary
Less than 24 hours after the primary election, U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, and Democratic challenger Carolyn Long faced off for the first time as they met Wednesday with The Columbian’s Editorial Board.
Updated election results suggest a close race for Herrera Beutler, who is seeking her fifth term in Congress. She was leading with 41.4 percent of the vote Wednesday evening, and Long followed with 36.07 percent. Five other challengers split the rest.
Long...
Aug 7, 2018 - OPB
Democrats were celebrating early returns in three congressional races in Washington state’s primary election, but Republicans said they were confident their party would hold on to all three seats in November.
Tina Podlodowski, chairwoman of the state Democratic Party, said that even though many more votes need to be counted, the early returns Tuesday night show that “nothing is guaranteed” for incumbent Republicans as Democrats showed strength that could carry...
Aug 7, 2018 - KUOW
Seattle-area primary results are below, but we want to highlight some interesting developments from outside our area, where three Republican-held seats are showing vulnerabilities.
In Clark County, on the Oregon border, longtime Republican incumbent Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler is leading her Democrat challenger Carolyn Long by just four percentage points. Clark County is purple — Clinton and Trump were neck and neck in 2016 — and its voters have long been loyal to Beutler. This...
Republican House members Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Jaime Herrera Beutler are looking at tough general elections as each had less than half the vote on primary night. It was a good primary night for Washington’s Democrats, as all six incumbent
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the fourth-ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, is headed for the toughest general election of her career, as she led Democrat Lisa Brown by less than 1 percentage point Tuesday night.
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, also is headed for a difficult general election, with Democratic candidates garnering more votes than Republicans in her district on primary night.
All of Washington’s Democratic members of Congress had hefty...
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, will face political science professor Carolyn Long in what Tuesday’s results suggested may be a close race.
Long, a Democrat making her first run for office, was less than 4 percentage points behind Herrera Beutler, 40.9 percent to 36.6 percent, according to districtwide results posted on the Secretary of State’s website. Long led Herrera Beutler in Clark County, the district’s most populous, by 2,249...