Posted on 08/01/2022 8:50:47 AM PDT by cotton1706
Jaime Herrera Beutler faces a Trump-backed primary challenger after she voted to impeach him over Jan 6.
She says she's "never been in this position" and is used to winning elections by focusing on local issues.
She hopes her "independent" approach will "continue to be the thing that's most important to voters."
Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, who voted to impeach President Donald Trump following the January 6 assault on the Capitol, will facing challengers from the right flank of her party in a primary next week.
She says it's a relatively new experience for her.
"I've never been in this position, in this way," she recently told NPR. "I have no metrics — no experience to say, 'This is how everything is going to work. And this is how I should be running this race.'"
Herrera Beutler told the outlet that she's used to winning elections by focusing on local issues.
"This isn't going to make a lot of social media feeds," she told NPR while touring a wastewater treatment plant in her home state. "Whereas I've always felt like if you do the work of the hometown congressperson, elections take care of themselves. And that has proven true now several times."
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Washington state uses a top-two primary system to select candidates for the general election, a system in which candidates compete among a primary field that includes not just Republicans, but also Democrats and independents. This month, Herrera Beutler hopes to make it into that top two.
"Yes, I'm a Republican," she told NPR. "But I'm also very independent in my approach. And that's what people want to see here. So I'm betting that's going to continue to be the thing that's most important to voters."
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This one’s not the brightest tool in the drawer.
Openly pissing all over our Constitution and the Rule of Law is not an enviable position to begin with.
The two last names lady has been an Assistant Democrat for ages.
We MUST stop re-electing Assistant Democrats.
I can’t wait to see this stupid bitch go down.
The give away is she told "NPR" We all know NPR is a total leftist/statist cess pit and won't touch a real Republican with a ten foot pole They're just giving air time and a free campaign ad to a slimy RINO backstabber.
Another mole popping out of her hole to take a “splat” hammer shot.
Being local is a luxury we do not have at this particular time.
When things get back to normal, then I would agree.
Looks like she might be able to give the Cortez nitwit some serious competition in the “eat an apple through a picket fence” competition.
Time to smoke out and remove all RINOs.
They expect to be royalty once elected.
It’s funny how a face can scream “stupid.”
SENDER HOME!
WHY is there more than one conservative running against her? This is how RINOs divide and conquer. At least in this election cycle, one of them is Trump-endorsed, and so I'm hoping the grass-root voters of WA will rally around Joe Kent.
Her challenger, Joe Kent, is one of the brightest new conservative voices running for Congress in this cycle.
So, naturally, NPR/PBS is going to try and rescue his RINO opponent.
But Liz Cheney is on NPR all the time! Wait a minute, are you saying that Liz...
“Herrera Beutler told the outlet that she’s used to winning elections by focusing on local issues.”
Hopefully she will lose because of her focusing on and voting for a Democrat cause against her own party.
And:
She hopes her “independent” approach will “continue to be the thing that’s most important to voters.”
She should have a Republican approach. Vote the RINO out.
Sounds like she is pleading to her liberal world order friends to fix the election.
Precisely
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