Posted on 07/25/2022 7:20:49 AM PDT by cotton1706
onald Trump has been highly successful so far in his revenge campaign against the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him. Four lawmakers have chosen to retire, one lost his primary, another has been redistricted out of a job, and even Rep. Liz Cheney is polling so far behind her Trump-backed challenger that she has begun begging Democrats for their votes.
On Aug. 2, two more of those 10 will be on the ballot when voters go to the polls in Washington’s primary. At first, it would seem that Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse would be the next to fall to the former president’s hand-picked challengers. Both represent districts Trump won in 2016 and 2020. They were censured by their GOP state committee, and Trump has endorsed far-right challengers to both.
But there’s a much smaller chance that Trump will be able to deliver a knockout blow to his two avowed enemies. That’s because of Washington state’s uncommon open primary system.
“When [Herrera Butler and Newhouse] cast their vote to impeach President Trump, they knew that compared to other people nationwide, they had an electoral system that let them vote their conscience,” said Alex Hayes, a longtime GOP strategist in Washington state.
In Washington, voters of any party can vote for whomever they want. The top two vote-getters — no matter their party — go on to the general election. In closed primaries, by contrast, the parties run the elections and permit only their own registered voters to cast ballots, with the winner going on to face the opposing party’s choice in the general election.
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Trump has endorsed Loren Culp against Newhouse and Joe Kent against Herrera-Beutler.
They wish upon a star!
Ha! Trump is something like 149-10 so a loss or two won’t hurt beyond giving some idiots something to crow about.
Even if all of Trump-Endorsed WA candidates were to lose, President Trump’s “King-Making Power” is intact.
With a current record of something like 145 to 12 (not exact) 2 or 3 losses are meaningless, unless of course, you are part of the DNC Propaganda MSM crowd.
Since Washington is not America, it doesn’t matter
Trump is 145-10. Ask any coach in any sport, pro or amateur if they would take that record and I would bet 99% of them would.
The dems are still whistlin’ Dixie a lot, aren’t they?
Sure it will!
Just like it has done in every other state.
Where he only walked away with a >95% success rate. And identified the deepest of the deep states where he didn’t win.
The real story here is the insidious Top Two Primary System. Washington State has a citizen initiative process. This is where the primary system came from.
The Washington State Grange, if your state has a chapter of this very old ag lobbyists group, keep a sharp eye on them, the Grange in Washington is FULL of commie bastards. They sponsored this atrocity and with the help of the dimocRAT party and the consistent lobbying effort by the likes of turncoat faux conservative former nationally syndicated radio host Michael Medved.
Add this with the All Mail-In balloting we have and our voting system is without a doubt the most dangerous, rife with the opportunity for fraud than any other state in the Nation.
The Dems are gonna vote Dem with an eye on recapturing the 3rd Congressional seat, and Perez is well positioned to do that if the brawl on the Republican side continues.
-btw all this could have been avoided if H-B had stepped up to run against Patty Murray for US Senate, which would have been a pretty good fight in a liberal state like Washington.
Is Washington still one of the United States?
“Is Washington still one of the United States?”
On paper yes.
DC is WC
Washington could be DC but...
In this case it’s that western superfund state, where all the anarchists dwell downstream... go figure.
Notice once again, that the only hope for RINOs is for Democrats to vote for them. That’s telling.
Who is this spoiler, Heidi St. John? Will anyone actually vote for her?
Who is the spoiler, Heidi St. John? What kind of dupes are actually going to vote for her?
It would be nice if Trummp held a rally to support them, but time is running out, it would have to be this week or weekend.
It seems you are a WA resident, and your chosen name leave me thinking. My brother had an inside joke where he blamed everything out of the ordinary on bigtoebob. Your name is so similar, are you from Kitsap Cty WA?
Washington is a former State, now a Communist Nation.
I lived in Kitsap County for 35 years until 6 years ago when I moved out to Ocean Shores.
Dupes, exactly.
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