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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez WINS in "a huge upset" [1]

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Date: 2022-11-12

NBC, CNN, the NY Times, and ABC have called WA.-03 for Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

She currently has a lead of 4,621 votes with 50.47% to Joe Kent’s 48.96%

I’ve been fixated on this race for the last couple of months, making repeated donations to her campaign.

This comes from 538 who gave Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s campaign 2 in 100 odds of winning.

NATHANIEL RAKICH NOV. 11, 10:01 AM Everyone is watching Clark County, Nevada, but the real heads are watching Clark County, Washington. That’s the biggest county in Washington’s 3rd District, where Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez leads Republican Joe Kent 51 percent to 49 percent. According to local reporter Evan Watson, there are roughly 53,000-54,000 ballots left to count there, and 44,000 of them are in Clark County. But when Clark County updated its results last night, Kent barely gained any ground at all, raising Democratic hopes that Gluesenkamp Perez could hold on. If she does, it would be a huge upset — our preelection forecast gave Gluesenkamp Perez just a 2 percent chance of winning. That can be chalked up to the district’s red hue (it has a FiveThirtyEight partisan lean of R+11). But Kent is a particularly extreme candidate — he has ties to white nationalist groups, and he is spreading conspiracy theories about the slow vote count in the district this week (which is a completely normal aspect of Washington’s vote-by-mail system). If Republicans lose here, the blame will fall squarely on former President Donald Trump, who endorsed Kent in the primary in order to oust the district’s outgoing Republican representative, Jaime Herrera Beutler, who voted to impeach him.

I’m ready to do a happy dance!

x We won. I am humbled, honored, and grateful.



I pledge to work every day to live up to the responsibility placed in me.



I will defend our rights. I will protect our democracy. And I will deliver the help working and middle class families need.



Thank you, thank you, thank you. — Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (@MGPforCongress) November 13, 2022

x Clark County, WASHINGTON in: great news for Dems.



15K ballots counted, & candidates broke nearly even: Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez got 18 more votes than Joe Kent.



She keeps lead of 5K votes in #WA03.



This matters bc it was a huge chunk of what's left. — Taniel (@Taniel) November 13, 2022

x Marie Gluesenkamp Perez just defeated MAGA extremist Joe Kent to FLIP her district in WA03! She told us last week how she ran a campaign to restore normalcy and end the extremism and division created by MAGA 'clickbait politics.' pic.twitter.com/kqyKYDTTlL — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) November 13, 2022

x Local Republicans breaking ranks and coming out against election denier Joe Kent helped a good Democratic candidate win. https://t.co/TMwdWhyRwe — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 13, 2022

x NBC calls WA 03 for the democrats pic.twitter.com/yl5PJcR663 — Acyn (@Acyn) November 13, 2022

Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wins key House seat in Washington state Gluesenkamp Perez’s win over Trump-backed far-right candidate Joe Kent helps buoy party hopes of keeping a majority in the House The third district, which narrowly voted for Trump in 2020, had been represented for more than a decade by Republican Rep Jaime Herrera Beutler. But she failed to make it through the state’s top-two primary after angering conservatives with her vote to impeach Trump after the attack on the US Capitol by his supporters. Schrier survived a challenge from Republican Matt Larkin to win a third term in the eighth district, which stretches from Seattle’s wealthy eastern ex-urbs across the Cascade Mountains to the orchard country of central Washington. Schrier, a pediatrician, in 2018 became the first Democrat to win the seat since its creation in the early 1980s.

Naturally Joe Kent is in no hurry tol admit his defeat.

x What the media says is irrelevant, its another narrative designed to stop voters from ballot curing & to force me to concede - not gonna happen.



We’re on the streets ballot curing. The fight goes on while the talking heads talk.



Power dry & check your ballot 🇺🇸 https://t.co/qbswzzqNbm — Joe Kent for WA-3 (@joekent16jan19) November 13, 2022

Probably the Democrats next best chance for an upset is in CA -13 where the Democrat is trailing by 84 votes!

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