Delegates and guests heard from the state’s outgoing governor and two of its top 2024 candidates: Incumbent Senator Maria Cantwell, who is seeking a fifth term, and Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who hopes to take over for Inslee as the state’s next governor. Latina candidates running in the recently reconfigured 14th District were also featured.
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Senator Maria Cantwell maintains comfortable lead over Republican challenger Raul Garcia, NPI poll finds
53% of 615 voters surveyed in mid-May by Public Policy Polling said they’d vote for Cantwell for U.S. Senate. 38% said they would vote for Garcia, a Yakima doctor who has the endorsement of the Washington State Republican Party, the Mainstream Republicans of Washington, and a long list of prominent Republican figures. 9% said they were not sure.
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WA Filing Week 2024: A look at who’s filed in key races as of Tuesday evening
Who filed for public office in Washington State on Tuesday, May 7th, 2024? This post discusses notable filings and provides a searchable table of the hopefuls who submitted their paperwork on day two of Filing Week.
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WA Filing Week 2024: A look at who’s filed in key races as of Monday evening
Who had filed for public office in Washington State as of the close of filing on Monday, May 6th, 2024? This post covers notable filings and provides links to the complete list for each county.
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Here’s who the Republican Party endorsed for statewide office at its 2024 convention in Spokane
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.