slim chances, but oddities happen
There is roughly zero relation between the news story focus — “Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse, who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, has defeated his Trump-backed opponent in Washington’s GOP primary” — and any of the 2402 comments ostensibly commenting on this story. They all veer into Abortion related name calling.
But maybe if I wade a thousand comments down I can find something — anything — relating to the election results.
Hope springs eternal for the Democrat.
After sharing a Spokesman-Review story on Twitter in which he was quoted saying he didn’t even consider Newhouse a Republican, Culp liked a tweet from a user who said GOP voters should decline to vote for Newhouse. Another supporter suggested Culp run a write-in campaign, which could spoil Newhouse’s chances of re-election.
The mathematics of such a thing usually lands on a “no”. Evan McMullin did bump kiss for Trump’s chances in Mormon Utah or Idaho. It is worth noting the thin thread pulling attempt of Beutler appears to have come up short — her Trump supporting opponent cleared past her in vote tallying. In theory, the new Republican candidate in that district has more Democrats and suburban ” Not Trump” Republicans that can vote for the Democratic opponent in the general election than Newhouse has Democrats and Trump Republicans against him.
The task of attempting to play spoiler by having a sizable enough contingency of your votes not bother to vote. Well, there is the Portland mayoral race. Comedy writ large — the left wing challenger to the nationally embattled mayor loses 41 percent against 46 percent of the vote because the antifa contingent sticks with their lunatic candidate in the general, even if she is nowhere on the ballot. Such I guess may be a long game for Loren Culp — let this new Jay Inslee serve a term, because we will be out a Newhouse and get in two years from now.