The Associated Press has called the House race in Washington state’s 3rd Congressional District for Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
Perez currently leads Republican Joe Kent 50.8% to 49.2%, a margin of 4,621 votes, with 70% of votes counted.
The victory for Perez is a Democrat pickup of a seat that has been held by Republicans since 2011.
The seat had been held by Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler who lost in her primary race after being one of the 10 Republicans to vote to impeach former President Donald Trump over his role in the Capitol Hill riot in January 2021.
Gluesenkamp Perez — who co-owns an auto shop with her husband just across the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon — said that as a small business owner who lives in a rural part of the district, she is more in line with voters.
Kent, a former Green Beret who was endorsed by Trump, has called for the impeachment of President Joe Biden and an investigation into the 2020 election.
“What the media says is irrelevant, its another narrative designed to stop voters from ballot curing & to force me to concede – not gonna happen,” Kent tweeted around the time of the AP’s call.
The results of about two dozen congressional races across the country are still outstanding, and all Republicans need to successfully flip the chamber are seven of them.
So far, after Tuesday’s midterm elections results, Republicans have secured 211 seats of the chamber’s 435 members — just shy of a 218-member majority.
I call bullshit again. Republicans are electing republican Governors but the same voters are electing democrat congressmen and senators. How is that possible?
Do not concede with only 70% counted. That’s insane!
Once again, the dirty, stinking, lying, conniving DIMS getting away w/ELECTION FRAUD! I had a friend who said “don’t vote early”, vote election day & I did. I probably WILL VOTE EARLY just so we have our votes in for our Party early. The mail-in ballots make it EASY FOR DIMS TO HARVEST VOTES.
I DO NOT BELIEVE that Dims won as many as they said, no freaking way.
WILL WE EVER HAVE AN “HONEST” ELECTION IN THE U.S. AGAIN??????????
Washington is always been a corrupted communist state who cares about States like this they’re going to burn in hell soon enough let these demons murder each other like they’re doing crime is rampant where the scumbag pedophiles and mentally ill demons Run this country their headquarters will burn first when the native Savages can’t get free stuff anymore when these baby murdering demons collapse our country soon
The majority of the people in Washington must be idiots so they deserve what they get. Either that or no one showed up to vote Republican.