Posted on 10/03/2022 5:20:50 PM PDT by cotton1706
David Nierenberg has funded a lot of Republican candidates over the years. But when GOP Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler lost her primary in August, he switched sides to fund Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez over the Trump-backed Republican who advanced to the general election.
“I immediately went to work,” Nierenberg said. “And I think I've now transformed myself from Jaime’s largest bundler to Marie's.”
Gluesenkamp Perez’s campaign team confirmed Nierenberg has raised over $100,000 for her campaign from his network of moderate Republican donors since the August primary. But the money is only part of the story in a district that has been center stage in the fight for moderate Republican voters — and for the future of the GOP — since Herrera Beutler’s vote in 2021 to impeach Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot earned her a primary challenge from Republican Joe Kent.
The southwestern Washington district, which Trump narrowly carried in 2020, has become a battle over party extremism. Kent is plagued by connections to white supremacists, while Gluesenkamp Perez is accused of supporting Antifa during the often-violent 2020 protests in Portland, Ore. Both campaigns told POLITICO they feel their candidate best represents the district’s moderate Republican voters, while slinging accusations of extremism at their opponent.
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Loser X-Republican!
Assistant Democrats gonna Assist.
Lost a bought office-holder. Off to buy a new one.
rino
dem
whats the difference?
donors love them both
they both love to spend money we dont have
Well, that certainly tells us a lot about Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, doesn’t it?
Good riddance!
If he is doing this, he NEVER was a GOPer, he is a blue blooded GOPeahen, a “safety” for “Team Mitch” a Bushwacker, a deeper deep state dork. Seriously, if he is doing this, he has no interest in making sure the elected representative represents the constituents.
Get a load of this. Kent is a former green beret and Gold Star spouse. The claim⁰ against Kent is he have an “interview” to someone they claim is a white supremacist.
Kent denounces all white supremacy including the guy who asked him some questions in an interview.
Ever see the media criticize candidates because the reporters interviewing then are all marxists?
Meanwhile, the Democrat in this race supports Antifa.
Twice.
He is a New Yorker, Columbia University, all that stuff. Not a conservative. He is sort of what Jared Kushner was/is (a New York City liberal) until he married into the Family.
Twice.
This operator thinks of himself as a "king maker" He probably has interests in some form or other in affairs that whatever Congresscritter represents this district has great influence over.
Cool - we jettison two losers for the price of one.
I bet he tried to buy Kent and got spurned.
“White extremists”??? Pleasssssssse!
I know nothing about these politicians involved, but whenever I hear “white extremist”, I know the story is full of 💩
No loss. More important is a purified GOP.
He sounds like someone that needs a forensic audit by the IRS and complete Investigation for criminal wrongdoing in the Trump 2024 Administration.
Its the house. If he wants to give money to someone in the powerless minority, he can knock himself out.
Which just proves he was a “Trojan Horse” Democrat all along!
Yep. The truth emerges. Trump is like sodium pentothal.
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