As of Wednesday morning, House Appropriations Committee member Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) was leading an open primary in his 4th Congressional district that encompasses the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state.
Newhouse, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 insurrection, was No. 1 out of eight candidates in the open primary and had won more than 27% of the 75,000 votes counted as of 8:45 p.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, according to results posted by the Washington Secretary of State’s office.
Another GOP appropriations committee member in a neighboring district, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash), who also alienated many in her party over her vote to impeach Trump, was a distant second in the state’s 3rd district this morning. The incumbent is the top Republican so far, trailing Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, 32% to 24.5% as of Wednesday morning.
Herra Beutler would still qualify for the November general election if she holds on against Trump-backed Republic candidate Joe Kent, who had almost 22% of the vote. Kent was the No. 3 vote getter out of eight in the district 3 race. Nearly 108,000 votes had been counted in the district 3 primary as of Wednesday morning, according to the Washington Secretary of State.
The No. 2 vote getter to Newhouse as deadline for Weapons Complex Morning Briefing was Democrat Doug White, who had about 26% of the vote. The third-place candidate was Trump-backed Republican Loren Culp with 22%. The top two finishers face off in the November general election.
The Seattle Times, citing Associated Press data, said this morning about 47% of the votes have been counted in the fourth district, where Newhouse leads, and 57% have been counted in district 3, where Perez leads.
Meanwhile, in Michigan, Rep. Eric Meijer (R-Mich.), a member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee who voted to impeach, went down to defeat against Republican candidate John Gibbs, who is backed by the former president, according to CNN.
