Kansas Upheld Abortion Rights And Other Key Updates From The Aug. 2 Elections
Washington’s 8th District is the state’s most competitive congressional seat. But it might be a while before we know which Republican will take on Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier in the fall. While Schrier is setting the pace with just under 50 percent of the vote, Matt Larkin, who ran for state attorney general in 2020, is in second with 16 percent, King County Councilor Reagan Dunn is right behind with 15 percent and Jesse Jensen, who ran for the 8th District in 2020, is in third with 13 percent. All are Republicans.
Latest count in the top-two primary for Washington’s 8th District
Results of the Republican primary for Washington’s 8th Congressional District, as of 11:24 p.m. Eastern
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kim Schrier* | D | 56,083 | 49.4 |
| Matt Larkin | R | 18,043 | 15.9 |
| Reagan Dunn | R | 17,073 | 15.0 |
| Jesse Jensen | R | 14,283 | 12.6 |
| Scott Stephenson | R | 3,597 | 3.2 |
| Emet Ward | D | 1,056 | 0.9 |
| Dave Chapman | R | 1,047 | 0.9 |
| Keith Arnold | D | 955 | 0.8 |
| Justin Greywolf | L | 767 | 0.7 |
| Ryan Dean Burkett | I | 394 | 0.3 |
| Patrick Dillon | Other | 156 | 0.1 |
We’ve got a lot of very close action out west in Washington’s top-two primaries involving House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. (Remember, all candidates run together on the same ballot.) In the 3rd District, about half the expected vote is in, and auto shop owner Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the lone Democrat of note, leads with 32 percent, while pro-impeachment incumbent Herrera Beutler is in second with 24 percent. Herrera Beutler is just ahead of Joe Kent, Trump’s endorsed candidate, who has 20 percent, while the other notable Trumpy contender, Heidi St. John, has 15 percent. Ahead of the primary, a mysterious outside group called Conservatives for a Stronger America spent $932,000 supporting St. John and $521,000 opposing Kent, prompting Kemp to claim the group wanted to help St. John split the Trump base to help Herrera Beutler. That may in fact be happening.
To give you a sense for how insane turnout was for Kansas’s abortion referendum: Almost 243,000 votes have been counted so far in Johnson County, Kansas, the state’s most populous county. That’s almost as many as Johnson County cast for governor in the 2018 general election: almost 271,000.