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In the battle for control of the U.S. House, Washington state is now one of the big hotspots.
On this episode of “OPB Politics Now,” OPB senior political reporter Jeff Mapes, Vancouver correspondent Molly Solomon and Olympia correspondent Austin Jenkins talk about the stunning results of the Washington primary. 
The state's "top two" non-partisan primary showed that Republican congressional incumbents — including Clark County's Jaime Herrera Beutler —...

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...