Independent Julie Anderson has conceded to Democrat Steve Hobbs in the race for Washington secretary of state. You might not have expected this race to be competitive in a state as blue as Washington, but the Evergreen State hasn’t elected a Democratic secretary of state since 1960 (!). And because Anderson advanced from the primary instead of a partisan Republican, she was able to make it a real race: Hobbs currently leads just 49 percent to 47 percent. But a Republican state senator who has spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election ran a write-in campaign, and right now, write-ins are getting 4 percent of the vote — double Hobbs’s margin of victory. So it’s possible that Republicans still handed this seat to Democrats.
