{"id":1562856,"date":"2022-07-20T11:50:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562856"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:50:06","slug":"five-republicans-aim-to-unseat-washington-democrat-in-august-top-two-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-republicans-aim-to-unseat-washington-democrat-in-august-top-two-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Republicans Aim to Unseat Washington Democrat in August Top-Two Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffive-republicans-aim-to-unseat-washington-democrat-in-august-top-two-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562856&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democrat Rep. Kim Schrier faces many competitors in her bid for reelection to represent her district in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-washington\">Washington<\/a> in U.S. Congress. If a TV ad she aired recently is any indication, she is under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe claims to be standing up to the Biden administration,\u201d said Caleb\u00a0Heimlich, chairman of the Washington State Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan Dunn, Jesse Jensen, Matt Larkin, and Scott Stephenson are among Schrier\u2019s Republican challengers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are nuanced differences in their backgrounds,\u201d Heimlich said. \u201cThey all have their own strengths in their differences and any of the candidates could win the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-primary\">primary<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 2 top-two primary ballot will also list Democrat Keith Arnold of Auburn, Patrick Dillon of Issaquah from the Concordia Party and Independent Ryan Burkett also of Issaquah. They did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnytime you\u2019ve got a competitive primary, it is a challenge,\u201d Heimlich told The Epoch Times. \u201cI\u2019m sure a Republican candidate will at least be in the top two but mathematically it would be very tough for them to finish in first place because Kim Schrier is the incumbent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congressional District 8, which includes Chelan, Kittitas, Wenatchee, and parts of King and Pierce counties, is one of the seats Republicans are eyeing in a quest to regain a majority in the U.S. House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorically, it\u2019s always been a Republican district until we narrowly lost it in 2018,\u201d said Dunn who has been a member of the King County Council since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn, who lost his bid for Attorney General against Bob Ferguson in 2012, has unusual name recognition in that his mother, Jennifer Dunn, held the Congressional seat for six terms in the late 1990s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe TV stations here always come to me for comments so I\u2019m on TV almost every night,\u201d he said. \u201cIt puts me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Rep. Kim Schrier faces many competitors in her bid for reelection to represent her district in Washington in U.S. Congress. If a TV ad she aired recently is any indication, she is under pressure. \u201cShe claims to be standing up to the Biden administration,\u201d said Caleb\u00a0Heimlich, chairman of the Washington State Republican Party. Reagan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}